Yolanda Prezado

France

Biography

Dr. Yolanda Prezado is the founder and responsible of the interdisciplinary team “New Approaches in Radiotherapy (NARA)” based at the Laboratory Imaging and Modelling in Neurobiology and Cancerology (National Scientific Research Center- CNRS, Orsay, France). The main research avenue of the team NARA is the conception and development of innovative methods based on the use of the spatial fractionation of the dose. Yolanda Prezado is a board certified medical physicist (Spain). She has been developing her research in radiotherapy, first at Hospital Universitario de Salamanca (Spain), then at the Biomedical Beamline of the European Synchrotron Radiation facility (Grenoble, France) and at CNRS since 2011. Her research interests include dose calculations (Monte Carlo simulations), small field dosimetry and radiobiology. She is also Vice-Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Federation of Medical Physics (EFOMP).