Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) facilitates researchers from COST countries participating in MyWAVE CA17115 to go to an institution, organisation or research centre in another participating COST country to foster collaboration.
Participation of “Early Career Investigators” (ECI) in STSM is particularly encouraged. The ECI is an individual who is within a time span of up to 8 years from the date they obtained their PhD/doctorate (full-time equivalent). PhD students are also eligible to participate in STSMs.
Up to May 2020, twenty STSMs were funded within MyWAVE. 53% of these missions were on topics related to dielectric and thermal properties of biological tissues (WG1); 33% related to development and optimization of EM hyperthermic technologies (WG2) and 14% related to commercialisation opportunities (WG3).
List of STSMs
- In-vivo dielectric properties estimation of human bones by Bilal Amin.
- Application of machine learning to predict dielectric properties of in vivo biological tissue by Branislav Gerazov.
- Investigating the effect of humidity on relating dielectric measurements of ex vivo samples to in vivo properties, by Maenhout Gertjan
- Synthesis and characterisation of biocompatible iron oxide nanoparticles with application in hyperthermia.
- Design of setup for dielectric characterization of semi-arbitrary shaped and sized tissue samples in a controlled environment.
- Innovative TDR data processing: validation in coaxial cable with numerical FDTD data.
- In silico study of the interaction between low frequency electromagnetic fields and orthopaedic prosthesis.
- Magnetic characterization of nanoparticles for hyperthermia Application.
- To investigate the potential use of Gold nanoparticles in hyperthermia.
- Development of a Theranostic Microwave System, by Lorenzo Crocco
- Magnetoliposomes for hyperthermia-based clinical approach and remotely controlled drug delivery.
- Advanced experimental characterization of human and animal tissues by Simona Di Meo
- New classifiers of dielectric measurements from 500 MHz to 50 GHz for heterogeneous biological tissues by Simona Di Meo
- In-vivo long term pathways for magnetic nanoparticles by AC magnetometery.
- Characterisation of human fibroblasts using THz Time Domain.
- Dielectric and thermal properties measurement and protocol measurement implementation, by Sergio Curto
- Measurement of temperature-dependent dielectric properties of cell suspensions.
- Evaluation of thermal transport parameters of biological tissue, by Marios Nestoros.
- Thermal properties measurement in small biological samples: investigation of the limitations by Laura Farina
- Preparation of peptide stabilized gold nanostars for microwave frequencies hyperthermia.
- In silico study of electromagnetic fields for magnetic hyperthermia treatments and its interaction with biliary metallic stents.
- Non-invasive monitoring of temperature using of microwave imaging technique during hyperthermia treatment.
