Dr. Harald Paganetti is currently the Director
of Physics Research at the Department of Radiation
Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and an
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. He received
his PhD in experimental nuclear physics in 1992
from the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms University
in Bonn, Germany, and has been working in
radiation therapy research on experimental as well
as theoretical projects since 1994. He has
authored and co-authored more than 100
peer-reviewed publications and is renowned
particularly for his work on proton therapy.
Dr. Paganetti has been awarded numerous research
grants from the National Cancer Institute in the
United States. He serves on several editorial
boards and is a member of task-groups and
committees for various associations such as the
American Association of Physicists in Medicine,
the International Organization for Medical
Physics, and the National Institutes of Health /
National Cancer Institute.