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Csilla PESZNYÁK Medical Physics and Radiation Protection Expert in Hungary. Associate professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Head of Radiation Protection Service at National Institute of Oncology, Hungary. Past President of the ENEN aisbl. Past President of Health Physics Section, Roland Eötvös Physical Society. Board member of Hungarian Society of Medical Physics and next president of Hungarian Radiation Oncology Society.

Štefan ČERBA graduated from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) in the degree course nuclear engineering. He worked at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) and as an expert advisor for the Slovak Nuclear Regulatory Authority. Currently he works as a senior researcher at STU where he is involved in research activities related to reactor physics, radiation protection, numerical simulations, and nuclear data. He is also involved in the education process through subject such as reactor physics, NPP decommissioning, materials for NPPs and computer network. He is involved and responsible for the implementation of several national and international projects, he is a task leader in ENEN2plus and communication manager in ENEEP. He is also a chairman of the NURECO – Nuclear Research Community civil association and the chairman of the Supervisory Board of the B&J NUCLEAR research spin-off company.

Francisco Javier ELORZA Full Professor of Hydrogeology and Nuclear Waste Management at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) since 2008. Associated Professor of Applied Mathematics in UPM (1987-2008). Author of more than 50 articles in international scientific journals. About 250 communications to international and national meetings. He has about 38 years’ experience in the field of Nuclear Waste Management and has participated in more than 40 projects related with nuclear waste management, deep geological disposal and NPP decommissioning. Coordinator in UPM of the SARENA (SAfe and REliable Nuclear Applications) Erasmus+ supported EMJMD Programme (2019 – ). President of the European Nuclear Education Network (2024 – ).

Gabriel PAVEL: Has been Executive Director of the European Nuclear Education Network for two years. He has completed 2 E&T projects and has 6 projects under implementation. Experience: 16y in the nuclear sector. University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania (16y); Lecturer on nuclear engineering, radiation protection, non-power applications of ionizing radiation. 5 E&T projects and 24 projects with industry.

Máté SZIEBERTH is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute of Nuclear Techniques, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). His expertise lies in reactor physics, with a focus on neutron noise analysis, Monte Carlo methods and advanced fuel cycle scenarios. He has contributed to several international research projects, including the H2020 GRE@T-PIONEeR project, where he was responsible for developing innovative training methodologies.
He actively teaches courses on reactor physics, Monte Carlo methods and nuclear fuel cycle and regularly mentors students and early-career researchers. In 2025, together with his research group, he received the Euratom Nuclear Innovation 3rd Prize in the category of safety of reactor systems.

Gábor STELCZER graduated in medical physics at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Faculty of Natural Sciences. He started to work at the National Institute of Oncology (NIO), Budapest in the field of radiotherapy. He made his PhD about Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI). Currently, he is working at the NIO as an MPE in the field of robot-based stereotactic radiotherapy and at the BME as an assistant professor. He has been involved in the training of medical physics for many years. He takes roles in the Hungarian Society of Medical Physics. He is involved in international projects like ENEN2plus and BioPhyHealth.

Tamás PÓCZA is working at the National Institute of Oncology (NIO) as medical physicist in the Center of Radiotherapy and also member of the Radiation Protection team. Currently, as MPE and RPE he is doing research in the fields of treatment planning systems, stereotactic radiotherapy and radiobiology. He is involved in the training of medical physicists, general doctors, radiation therapy technologists and Radiation Protection Officers. He is the former secretary of the Hungarian Society of Medical Physics. Through the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) he is involved in the SECURE project.

Péter ZAGYVAI Radiation Protection Expert in Hungary, scope: reactors, industrial radiation sources, research facilities, emergency preparedness and response. Retired associate professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Retired senior research associate at the HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, Budapest. Radiation protection adviser of ELI-ALPS research laser facility at Szeged, Hungary. Member of the advisory board of the National Environmental Monitoring System and the Centre for Emergency Response, Training and Analysis, both entities operate under the auspices of the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority.

András HEREIN graduated in medical physics at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Faculty of Natural Sciences. He started to work at the National Institute of Oncology (NIO), Budapest in the field of radiotherapy. He made his PhD about Quantitative Analysis of Optimized Dose Distributions in Image Guided Brachytherapy. Currently, he is working at the NIO as an MPE in the field of external radiotherapy. He has been involved in the training of medical physics for many years and he was the treasurer of the Hungarian Society of Medical Physics between 2020-2024.

Branislav VRBAN He is an Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at STU and Director of the Center of Nuclear Technology and Applications. His research over the past eight years has focused on advanced fast reactor physics, including neutronic calculations, cross-section adjustment methods, and core design. He gained international experience through a research internship at CEA Cadarache (France), a one-year research position at KAERI (Korea), and participation in expert training programs in the USA, Russia, and Germany. At KAERI, he contributed to cross-section adjustment method development and reactor stability analysis for sodium-cooled fast reactors. He has also been involved in reactor safety analysis in Slovakia and participated in the 2015 WNU Summer Institute, further enhancing his expertise in nuclear technology, project management, and international collaboration.

Richard ELEK is an electrical engineer and medical physicist who has more than 15 years of work experience as a technical support staff member at the National Center of Public Health and Pharmacy (and its predecessors in title). He is currently the head of the National Personal Dosimetry Service and also fulfil tasks related to the regulatory supervision of medical exposures. His research interest is focused on modelling of medical exposures and estimating cancer risk from these. He is a lecturer at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and provides education and training for medical physics students on diagnostic X-ray imaging. He was involved with several IAEA and EU projects and actively participates in developing ISO and IEC standards related to the safe use of ionizing radiation.

Lois S. TOVEY has a BSc in Ceramic Science & Engineering and a PhD in Materials from the University of Leeds. She has extensive experience in project management and business development within the nuclear sector. She has managed large research consortia working on nuclear decommissioning, waste management and advanced fuels and has worked in a start-up providing instrumentation and testing services for the nuclear industry. She is currently a visiting researcher at the University of Leeds where she is involved with education and outreach activities.

Stellan HOLGERSSON graduated in Nuclear Chemistry at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden in 2001.His Thesis is concerned about the use of cement and concrete for incapsulating radioactive waste. He made a post doc at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany in 2002-2003, investigating the properties of graphite from Pebble Bed Reactors for radioactive waste containment. He returned to Sweden to become Senior Researcher at Department of Chemical Engineering at Chalmers in 2005, where he has been working since then. The focus of his research is about radionuclide sorption and diffusion properties of the granitic bedrock in the far-field of a geological disposal of radioactive waste. Another area for his research is investigations on the possibility of the recycling of materials from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), batteries and solar cells. Stellan have also cooperated with other research groups on various topics in biochemistry and radiotherapy medicine, where he has assisted with ICP-MS analyses.

Gareth LAW graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc. (hons) in Environmental Geoscience, and from the Open University and UHI Millennium Institute with a PhD in Geochemistry. After four years of radiochemistry post-doctoral fellowships (2006-11) Law was appointed as a Lecturer in Analytical Radiochemistry (Assistant Professor) at the University of Manchester. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Manchester in 2016, and then moved to Finland to become the University of Helsinki’s Professor of Radiochemistry, and Director of their Radiochemistry Unit in late 2018. He became a Vice Dean at the University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Science in 2024. Law’s research interests lie in the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear forensics, and the environmental chemistry and human health impacts of radionuclides. He holds multiple positions of trust with learned societies and advisory bodies and is on the Board of Directors of ENEN.

Marek KIREJCZYK received his degree and PhD from Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, in experimental nuclear physics. During stay at the University he was member of FOPI and NA61 collaborations. Since 2012 he works in Education and Training Division, where (among others) he teaches about radiation and nuclear physics, nuclear energy and radioprotection.

Antonio JREIJE Antonio Jreije is a Medical Physicist working in the Clinical Radiation Surveillance Division at Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Lithuania. He received his PhD in Technological Sciences from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, in 2025. His research interests include radiation protection, the optimization of diagnostic and interventional radiology procedures, and the application of 3D printing technologies in personalized medicine. Currently serves as Vice Convener of the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics (EFOMP) Special Interest Group for Early Career Medical Physicists and as a member of the Communications Committee of the European Alliance for Medical Radiation Protection Research (EURAMED).

Tom CLARIJS graduated in Biomedical Sciences, whereafter he specialised in Biomedical and Clinical Engineering, in particular medical radiation physics. He was active within QCC-Gent, a center for technical quality control in diagnostic radiology, linked to the department of Medical Physics at the University of Ghent and the Standard Dosimetry Lab. At the moment Tom is active within the SCK CEN Academy for Nuclear Sciences and Technology of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre. In providing education and training he offers topics related to nuclear physics, radiation protection, emergency response and medical physics. He is involved in international projects such as ENEN2+, PRISMAP and PIANOFORTE, offers support to national and international scientific societies such as BVS-ABR, BPS, Rad4Med, MELODI, EUTERP and IAEA and is the vice-chair of the Belgian Society for Radiation Protection.