María del Carmen Jiménez Ramos
María del Carmen Jiménez Ramos
Contratada de Acceso del Plan Propio - Universidad de Sevilla
Tel: 954460553 E-mail: mcyjr@us.es
Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (US, CISC, Junta de Andalucía) / Departamento Física II
CURRÍCULO:
In my doctoral thesis I studied aggregates of radioactive material with high activity concentration using advanced analytical techniques, such as the use of ion beam techniques requiring the use of particle accelerators. This helped me to establish an international collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Since 2008, my main line of work has been the study of nuclear instrumentation and radiation detectors at the Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA). During two IAEA coordinated research projects I implemented together with Dr. J. García López the IBIC (Ion Beam Induced Charge) and TRIBIC (Time-Resolved IBIC) techniques. This opened the door to the participation of the CNA in the RD50 collaboration for which I was deputy team leader from 2018 to 2023, managing the scientific participation of the Centre in this network. From RD50 I received funding as PI for a project on the study of the low-gain avalanche detectors that have been proposed to be part of CMS and ATLAS in the LHC high-luminosity upgrade. Now I am the CNA team leader within the new DRD3 collaboration related to solid-state detectors, created within the ECFA (European Committee for Future Accelerators) roadmap. In the field of detector development, I received funding (as part of a consortium of the University of Seville, the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona and the company Alter Technology) through the RETOS-Colaboración call of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities for the study of SiC detectors developed at IMB-CNM. On 31/05/2023 ended the project "Development of the Laboratory for Advanced Studies of Radiation Detectors (LEADER)" that I was awarded as PI within the Operational Programme FEDER Andalucía 2014-2020, with which the CNA has been promoted at national and international level in the use of IBIC and TRIBIC techniques for the characterisation of semiconductor detectors. In addition, as head of the external line of the CNA cyclotron, I have co-supervised a thesis in which this line has been adapted for radiobiology studies for its application in proton therapy (PhD by A. Baratto, 2020). Related to Medical Physics I am the PI of several projects, the most relevant one is: "HR23-00718 - Dosimetry monitor for FLASH therapy" within a consortium formed by the IMB-CNM-CSIC, University of Santiago de Compostela, Institute Curie de Paris and the University of Seville (institution for which I participate as PI) through the HEALTH RESEARCH 2023 programme of the Fundación la Caixa. This call seeks projects with a high social impact. .
