Research groups
External Funding
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Collaborators
Professor Crister Ceberg, Lund University
Dr Karl Butterworth, Queen's University Belfast
Dr Jason Parsons, University of Birmingham
Dr Betina Børresen, University of Copenhagen
Professor Philip Burrows, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
Visiting Professor Manjit Dosanjh, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
Kristoffer Petersson
PhD
MRC Investigator & Group Leader - FLASH Radiation
RESEARCH SUMMARY
FLASH radiation is a novel radiotherapy technique that show great potential in improving cancer treatment. However, very little is known about the biological mechanisms behind the highly beneficial FLASH effect. The research group aims to identify these mechanisms, explain the effect, and to find the optimal way of implementing the technique in clinical practice.
BIOGRAPHY
Kristoffer is a Medical physicist from Helsingborg, Sweden, and holds a M.Sc. (2009) and a Ph.D. (2014) in Medical Radiation Physics from Lund University, Sweden. Kristoffer enjoyed a Post-doc period (2014-2017) working on FLASH radiation at CHUV, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Lately, he has worked as a clinical medical physicist (2017-2019) and started his own research group in FLASH radiotherapy (2017-) at Skåne University Hospital. Since 2019, Kristoffer is Group leader of the research group "Physics and Biology of FLASH Radiation" in the Department of Oncology.
GROUP MEMBERS
Nathalie Lövgren, DPhil Student
Salomé Paillas, Postdoctoral Researcher
Jia-Ling Ruan, Postdoctoral Researcher
Sovan Sarkar, Postdoctoral Researcher
Iain Tullis, Postdoctoral Researcher & Lab manager
GROUP ALUMNI & NEXT DESTINATIONS
Dr Edward Taylor, DPhil student (2022-2026) --> Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, San Francisco
Dr Christian Cooper, Postdoctoral Researcher (2023-2024) --> Research Scientist at Granza Bio
Lana Hendrawan, Research Assistant (2023-2024) --> Costello Medical