Short Term Missions

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

1. In-vivo dielectric properties estimation of human bones. Bilal Amin.
2. Application of machine learning to predict dielectric properties of in vivo biological tissue by Branislav Gerazov.
3. Synthesis and characterisation of biocompatible iron oxide nanoparticles with application in hyperthermia. Francesca Brera
4. Investigating the effect of humidity on relating dielectric measurements of ex vivo samples to in vivo properties. Gertjan Maenhout
5. Design setup for dielectric characterization of semi-arbitrary shaped and sized samples in a controlled environment Gertjan Maenhout
6. Innovative TDR data processing: validation in coaxial cable with numerical FDTD data. Iman Farhat
7. In silico study of the interaction between low frequency electromagnetic fields and orthopaedic prosthesis. Irene Rubia Rodríguez
8. Magnetic characterization of nanoparticles for hyperthermia Application. Iván Gresits
9. To investigate the potential use of Gold nanoparticles in hyperthermia. Julian Bonello
10. Development of a Theranostic Microwave System. Lorenzo Crocco
11. Magnetoliposomes for hyperthermia-based clinical approach and remotely controlled drug delivery. Martina Nardoni
12. Advanced experimental characterization of human and animal tissues. Simona DiMeo
13. New classifiers of dielectric measurements from 500 MHz to 50 GHz for heterogeneous biological tissues. Simona DiMeo
14. In-vivo long term pathways for magnetic nanoparticles by AC magnetometery. Tamara Fernandez
15. Dielectric and thermal properties measurement and protocol measurement implementation. Sergio Curto
16. Evaluation of thermal transport parameters of biological tissue. Marios Nestoros
17. Preparation of peptide stabilized gold nanostars for microwave frequencies hyperthermia. Francesco Rossi
18. Non-invasive monitoring of temperature using of microwave imaging technique during hyperthermia treatment. Jan Tesarik
19. In silico study of electromagnetic fields for magnetic hyperthermia treatments and its interaction with biliary metallic stents. Irene Rubia Rodríguez
20. Thermal properties measurement in small biological samples: investigation of the limitations. Laura Farina
21. Microwave thermal ablation at 5.8 GHz on ex vivo porcine adrenal glands. Anna Bottiglieri
22. Fabrication of magnetic micro/nano spinners for out-of-thermal equilibrium crowd organization. Zoran Cenev
23. Optimising existing thermal-based EM applications, including Treatment protocols. Michael ZEINOUN
24. Gold nanoparticles for hyperthermic applications in the treatment of cancers. Francesco Rossi
25. Study of the electromagnetic hyperthermia application of peptide stabilized gold nanoparticles. Francesco Rossi
26. Gold nanoparticles for hyperthermic applications in the treatment of cancers. Julian Bonello
27. Training on numerical simulation software CST. Cemanur Aydinalp
28. Training on numerical simulation software CST. David Vatamanu