PLENARY LECTURES

Vijay K. Singh, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, USA (H-index: 48, citations: 8340; Scopus), “Serum proteomic signatures in nonhuman primates following treatment with a radiation countermeasure and exposure to a partial- or total-body supralethal radiation dose”
Vijay K. Singh, Ph.D., is a tenured Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) and a Principal Investigator at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) in Bethesda, MD. He specializes in radiation biology, focusing on developing medical countermeasures for acute radiation syndrome (ARS), biomarkers for radiation injury, and signal transduction. Dr. Singh has a prolific research background in radiological sciences, including work on PARP inhibitors, antioxidants, and radiation oncology. Please see the website for more details: www.usuhs.edu/profile/vijay-singh-phd
Eva Zarkadoula, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA (H-index: 23, citations: 1717; Scopus), "From radiation damage to materials design: modeling radiation effects across scales"
Dr. Eva Zarkadoula is Group Leader at the Nanomaterials Theory Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She studied Physics in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2013, she was awarded her PhD in Physics from Queen Mary University of London. Eva joined the Materials Science and Technology Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Associate in 2014, and in 2016 she was employed at ORNL as staff in the Materials Science and Technology Division. As of December 2022, Eva is R&D Staff in the Center for Nanophase Materials Science of ORNL. Her research interests include material modification and functionalization, the materials' behavior in extreme conditions, the interactions of radiation with matter, microstructure alterations and evolution, structural materials and mechanical properties, material modification and functionalization, nuclear energy, behavior of disordered systems such as liquids and glasses.