Juan Diego Azcona Armendáriz

Biography

    Degree in Physical Sciences from the University of Valladolid (1995), specialty of Fundamental Physics. PhD in Physics with Extraordinary Prize by the University of Navarra (2009). Specialist in Hospital Radiophysics (2003). He joined the University of Navarra Clinic in 1996. Between 2011 and 2013 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University (Palo Alto, California), focusing his research on image-guided and adaptive radiotherapy, and evaluating the dosimetric impact of patient movement on high-conformation radiotherapy techniques. Research Areas   He developed his doctoral thesis on dosimetric calculation methods applicable to the new techniques of high conformation used in radiotherapy. As a result of this patent an algorithm for calculating the absorbed dose in radiation therapy with intensity modulation. Later, he expanded his field of research to control the movement experienced by patients when they were treated with the new techniques of radiotherapy (volumetric archotherapy), their dosimetric impact, and the development of tools for adaptive radiotherapy. He has developed a tracking system of tumor movement during the radiotherapy treatment.                                                               ACTIVITY As a teacher Accredited by the ANECA as Professor Contracted University Doctor. Professor responsible for the subject "Radioactivity" (teaching in English), taught in the degrees of Environmental Sciences, Chemistry, Biology and Biochemistry, at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Navarra. Associate Professor of the subject of Biophysics of the first year of the degree in Medicine, University of Navarra. Teacher of the module "Great diagnostic and therapeutic equipment in Medicine" of the Master in Biomedical Engineering of the University of Navarra, as well as of several training courses for operators of radioactive facilities. As researcher Lead author of eight research papers published in high impact journals. Co-author of four other articles, and three chapters of national and international books. He has participated in seven research projects, including three projects from the US National Institute of Health (NIH). UU. and two projects of the National R & D & I Plan. He is currently the principal investigator of a project funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the Health Research Fund (Carlos III Health Institute) on adaptive lung radiotherapy, in which scientists from the Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMAT). For the development of this project is conducting a doctoral thesis. He has participated in numerous national and international congresses with more than fifty works in the form of invited papers, oral communications, and posters.

Research Interest

 Commissioning and calibration of linear accelerators, dosimetry of small fields of radiation, image-guided and time-adapted radiotherapy, dynamic volumetric therapy, control of movement during treatment and evaluation of its dosimetric impact, deformable image registration.