Hugo has received two Masters degrees in Applied Sciences (obtaining the Belgian title of Burgerlijk Ingenieur which is probably the equivalent of the MEng title in the UK) and Environmental Sanitation at Ghent University, Belgium followed by a PhD in Applied Sciences at the same university. He worked there also as Lecturer and Post Doctoral Fellow before joining NPL.
Hugo is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, has contributed to more than 50 peer reviewed publications, 14 book chapters and more than 150 Conference Presentations.
He is Editorial Board Member of Medical Physics and Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine and has acted as referee for about 20 scientific journals, is the Chair of an International Working Group developing Codes of Practice for Small and Composite Field Dosimetry, has served on numerous other national and international committees such as an IPEM Working Group on Small Field Dosimetry and an IAEA working group on Nuclear Interaction Data for Particle Therapy.
Hugo has also contributed to numerous international courses such as the Small Field Dosimetry Course in Torino, Italy (16 Dec 2011), the Radiation Dosimetry Course at Linköping University, Sweden (2-5 May 2011), the Winter School for Medical Physics in Pichl/Steiermark, Austria (1-5 Mar 2010) and the AAPM Summer School on Clinical Dosimetry Measurement in Radiotherapy, Colorado Springs CO, USA (21-25 Jul 2009).
Areas of interest
Hugo Palmans is leading research on the development of improved dosimetry techniques for modern radiotherapy methods using small x-ray beams, complex combinations of those, radioactive sources and for developing radiotherapy methods using proton and carbon ion beams. This includes the application of existing dosimetry instruments like calorimeters, ionization chambers and alanine as well as the development of new instruments like microcalorimeters.
Hugo has also a strong interest in the future development of biodosimeters that represent the complexity of radiation damage in living cells.
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