Awards & Grants

Student grants to support attending the conference and short courses are available due to the generous support of individuals, institutions, agencies, and companies. The Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant, the Valentin T. Jordanov Radiation Instrumentation Travel Grant, and the Conference Trainee Grants will be available. This year there may be additional grants announced later. Return to this page for further information. The application deadlines are shown for each award. All applications and recommendations must be submitted online. Information about nominations for other Awards is given in the IEEE NPSS Awards section below.

For more information contact:

Merry Keyser
Scholarship Co-Chair
Phone: +1-865-607-2908
MerryKeyser@ieee.org
Andrés Santos
Scholarship Co-Chair
Phone: +34-91-336-7323
andres@die.upm.es

2011 Conference Trainee Grants

List of All Trainee Grant Recipients

Ashrani Aizzuddin Abd. Rahni, University of Surrey
Yamiel Abreu Alfonso, Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear(CEADEN).
Greeshma Agasthya, Duke University
Marco Aiello, INFN PISA / UNIVERSITY OF PISA
Mahmood Akhtar, University of Sydney
Fares Alhassen, University of California, San Francisco
Majdi Alnowami, University of Surrey
Andriy Andreyev, University of British Columbia
Georgios Angelis, The University of Manchester
Ian Armstrong, Central Manchester University Hospitals
Cheol-Ha Baek, Molecular Imaging Lab, Department of Radiological Science, Yonsei university
Oleksandr Baiev, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Vladimir Bares, Charles University In Prague
Eugen Bayer, University Kassel
Giacomo Benassi, CNR
Melanie Bergeron, Université de Sherbrooke
Ilja Bezrukov, Tuebingen University
Junguo Bian, The University of Chicago
Matthew Bieniosek, Stanford University
Chad Bircher, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Spencer Bowen, Massachusetts General Hospital
Christian Buerger, King's College London
Marek Bugar, Charles University in Prague
Jorge Cabello, Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, UVEG/CSIC
Jacobo Cal-Gonzalez, Universidad Complutense Madrid
Desmond Campbell, Vanderbilt University
Ricardo Capote, University of Lisbon
Verónica Carcelén, Universidad Autonóma de Madrid
Lara Carramate, University of Aveiro
Ismael Castro, Universidade de Aveiro
Hyo-Min Cho, Yonsei University
Yu-Na Choi, Yonsei University
Daniel Chonde, Harvard University
Christophe Cloquet, Vrije Universteit Brussel
Samantha Colosimo, University of Liverpool
Audrey Corbeil Therrien, Université de Sherbrooke
Euan Cowie, University of Glasgow
Andrea Cristofoli, University of Udine
Jing-yu Cui, Stanford University
Amlan Datta, Washington State University
Stratos David, Technological Educational Institution of Athens
Zoey Davidson, University of Pennsylvania
Giulia De Luca, INFN Pisa
Vaclav Dedic, Charles Univ. in Prague
Ivelina Dimitrova, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
Thais dos Santos, Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares
Serge Duarte Pinto, CERN
Jürgen Durst, University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Joyita Dutta, Massachusetts General Hospital
Darren Ellis, University of Tennessee
Michela Esposito, University of Surrey
Andrea Ferrero, University of California, Davis
Mykhaylo Filipenko, University of Erlangen
Jussi Forma, Tampere University of Technology
Michael Foxe, Penn State University and LLNL
Sara Garbolino, Università di Torino, INFN
Paz Garcia de Acilu Laa, CIEMAT
Daniel Gehre, TU Dresden
Strahil Georgiev, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
Georgi Gerganov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridksi"
Thomas Gleixner, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Eric Gonzalez, Stanford University
Alexander Grant, Stanford University
Martyna Grodzicka, National Centre For Nuclear Research
Mandy Gruettner, University of Lübeck
Xiao Han, The University of Chicago
Steffen Hauf, TU Darmstadt
Clemens Hentschke, University of Magdeburg
ELENA HERRANZ, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Leo Huf Campos Braga, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)
YoonSuk Huh, Sogang Institute of Advanced Technology/Sungkyunkwan Univ.
Joanna Iwanowska, National Centre for Nuclear Research
Abhinav Jha, University of Arizona
Woo Jin Jo, Yonsei University
Jakob Joergensen, Technical University of Denmark
Lindsay Johnson, Vanderbilt University
Jin Ho Jung, Sogang University
Faraz Kalantari, Tarbiat Modares University
JIHOON KANG, Sungkyunkwan University
Nikolaos Karakatsanis, Johns Hopkins University
Vincent Keereman, Ghent University - IBBT - IBiTech
Inna Kilimchuk, Institute of Magnetism NAS of Ukraine
Ealgoo Kim, Stanford University
KyuBom Kim, Sogang University
Sangsu Kim, Sogang University
Geehyun Kim, University of Michigan
Jung-Ha Kim, University of Sydney
Dominika Kochanowska, Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences
Armin Kolb, University of Tuebingen
fotis kotasidis, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Srilalan Krishnamoorthy, University of Pennsylvania
Sangeeta Maini Kumari Maini, University College London (UCL)
Andre Kyme, University of Sydney
Stephanie Lam, Stanford University
Frances Lau, Stanford University
Seung-Wan Lee, Yonsei University
Eunsin Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Dong Hoon Lee, Yonsei University
Wencke Lehnert, University of Sydney
Yulia Levakhina, Uni Luebeck
Iara Lima, Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares
Chen-Yi Liu, University of Manitoba
Chih-Chieh Liu, Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen
Xavier LOJACONO, CREATIS ; CNRS UMR5220 ; Inserm U1044 ; INSA-Lyon ; Université Lyon 1 ; France
Julia Mannheim, Laboratory for Preclinical Imaging and Imaging Technology of the Werner Siemens-Foundation
Frederic Mantlik, University of Tübingen
Laura Marchini, CNR
Pawel Markiewicz, University of Manchester
Olena Maslyanchuk, Chernivtsi Yuri Fedkovych National University
Joop Meijlink, Delft University of Technology
Christian Mester, EPFL
Mojgan Mohajer, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen
Pieter Mollet, Ghent University - IBBT - IBITECH
Rachel Montgomery, University of Glasgow
Matteo Morrocchi, INFN Pisa
EDUARDO NEBOT, CERN
Philip Noonan, University of Manchester
Suzanne Nowicki, University of Michigan
Peter Olcott, Stanford University
Carlos Oliveira, University of Aveiro
Sujin Park, Yonsei University
Erik Pearson, University of Chicago
Jakub Pekarek, Charles University In Prague
Francesco Pennazio, Università degli studi di Torino and INFN
Alexis Poitrasson-Riviere, University of Michigan
John Polack, University of Michigan
Irene Polycarpou, King's College London
Ramin Rafiei, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Aamir Raja, University of Canterbury
Paul Reynolds, Stanford University
Ahmadreza Rezaei, K.U.Leuven
Ilaria Rinaldi, DKFZ/HIT Heidelberg
Ina Ritter, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Andre Ritter, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Mohammed Khalil Saeed Salih, Najran University
Sahinaz Safari Sanjani, Stanford University
Erika Sales, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Jeffrey Schmall, University of California, Davis
Lukas Sedivy, Charles University in Prague
Stefan Seifert, Delft University of Technology
Pawel Sibczynski, National Centre for Nuclear Research
Peter Sievers, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Georgios Soultanidis, King's College London
Giancarlo Sportelli, INFN Pisa
Riccardo Stara, University of Pisa
Daniel Stricker-Shaver, University of Tuebingen
Istvan Szanda, King's College London
Tomasz Szczesniak, National Centre For Nuclear Research
Meysam Tavakoli, Mashhad University of Medical Science
Christian Thibaudeau, Université de Sherbrooke
Charalampos Tsoumpas, King's College London
Uygar Tuna, Tampere University of Technology
Vladyslav Tyzhnevyi, University of Trento
Daniel Unholtz, Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center
Fazal ur-Rehman, University of Manitoba
Stepan Uxa, Charles University in Prague
Karen Van Audenhaege, University of Ghent
Herman van Dam, Delft University of Technology
Gerben van der Lei, Delft University of Technology
Katrien Van Slambrouck, K.U.Leuven
Bert Vandeghinste, Ghent University
Arne Vandenbroucke, Stanford University School of Medicine
Ioannis Vasilas, University of Cyprus
Esther Vicente Torrico, Universidad Complutense Madrid
Kathleen Vunckx, K.U. Leuven
Thomas Weber, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Thomas Weidinger, University of Luebeck
Rony Wiener, University of Pennsylvania
Marta Witkowska-Baran, Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences
Ziyu Xiao, NCSU
Jianhua Yan, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium
Ryan Yee, LLNL
Jung-Yeol Yeom, Stanford University
Nicola Zambelli, University of Parma
Massimiliano Zanichelli, University of Parma
Jinjian Zhai, Stanford University
Petar Zugec, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb

Valentin T. Jordanov Radiation Instrumentation Travel Grant

2011 Recipients

Ivelina Dimitrova University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Strahil Georgiev University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Georgi Gerganov University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Martyna Grodzicka Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Poland
Darren Ellis ORNL/University of Tennessee, USA
Chad Bircher University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Alexander Grant Stanford University, USA
Zoey Davidson University of Pennsylvania, USA

The 2011 Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant

The Recipients of the 2011 Paul Phelps Grants are:

Rameshwar Prasad University of Geneva, Switzerland
Ashley Cullen University of Wollongong, Australia
Vaibhav Bora University of Arizona
Kevin Loo University of Wollongong, Australia
Michael Weaver University of Wollongong, Australia
Audrey Corbeil Therrien Iniversité de Sherbrooke, Canada

 

IEEE NPSS Awards

Here is a list of IEEE NPSS Awards that are applicable to the 2011 NSS/MIC Conference.

For applications for 2011 Awards please see https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/awards.htm

The 2011 Radiation Instrumentation Early Career Award (RITC)

Dr. Andrew Goertzen, University of Manitoba
 
“For contributions to molecular imaging instrumentation, in particular the development and improved utilization of both clinical and preclinical PET and CT imaging systems”

Radiation Instrumentation Outstanding Achievement Award (RITC)

Dr. Gerhard Lutz, PNSensor GmbH
 
“For contributions to charmed particle physics, including silicon tracking detectors and the invention of innovative semiconductor structures such as SDDs and active pixel sensors (DePFETs) for X-ray spectroscopy and imaging”

The Bruce H. Hasegawa Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award (MIC)

Dr. Abhijit J. Chaudhari, UC Davis Medical Center
 
“For contributions to the fields of multispectral optical tomography, PET instrumentation, and translational molecular imaging”

The Edward J. Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award (MIC) 

Dr. Michel Defrise, Professor of Nuclear Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
 
“For pivotal contributions to the science of tomographic reconstruction”

IEEE Medal for Innovation in Healthcare Technology

Dr. Harrison H. Barrett, Regents Professor, University of Arizona
 
“For pioneering contributions to the foundations and applications of biomedical imaging science”

2011 NPSS Student Paper Awards

NSS Student Paper Awards

First
L.H. Braga, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy
(N12-4) A CMOS Mini-SiPM Detector with in-Pixel Data Compression for PET Applications

Second
L. Arpin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
(N31-7) Embedded Real Time Digital Signal Processing for a 64-channel Pet Detector Module in a 0.18 µm Cmos ASIC

Third
J. Brown, School of Physics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
(NP4.M-162) MULECS: the Monash University Low Energy Compton Scattering Package

Fourth
C. Soldner, Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany
(N44-6) Scintillators with Silicon Photomultiplier Readout for Timing Measurements in Hadronic Showers

MIC Student Paper Awards

First
Andre Z. Kyme, University of Sydney, Australia
(MIC16-4) Novel SLAM-Based Markerless Motion Tracking of Conscious Unrestrained Rodents in PET

Second
Kevin Little, University of Chicago, USA
(MIC9.S-163) Sinogram Restoration in Computed Tomography with a Non-Quadratic, Edge-Preserving Penalty

Third-tie
Thomas Kormoll, Technische Universitt Dresden, Germany
(MIC15.S-278) A Prototype Compton Camera for In-Vivo Dosimetry of Ion Beam Cancer Irradiation

Third-tie
Brian W. Miller, University of Arizona, USA
(MIC16-3) A System Calibration and Fast Iterative Reconstruction Method for Next-Generation, SPECT Imagers