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Dr. Rosana M. Turtos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Aarhus University, where she leads a research group on exciton-driven scintillation and ionizing-radiation detection.
Dr. Turtos earned her PhD in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Milano-Bicocca in 2017, where her thesis focused on prompt photon emission in scintillating materials. She went on to work as a research fellow at CERN in the Crystal Clear group, contributing to the development of next-generation time-of-flight PET detectors. This earned her the Radiation Instrumentation Early career award from the IEEE nuclear and plasma science society in 2019.
In 2021, she was awarded a major RECRUIT grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to build her own laboratory—the “Exciton Lab”—aimed at investigating the exciton dynamics in solid state materials for fundamental and applied purposes.
Her recent publications include pioneering work on 3D radiation dose imaging using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) in LYSO:Ce and YSO:Ce crystals; a reusable and tissue-equivalent 3D dosimeter for radiotherapy based on LiF nanoparticles; and nonlinear quenching effects of the excitonic emission appearing in 2D semiconductors films.
With a strong commitment to both teaching and mentorship, she supervises students across bachelor, master, and PhD levels, and is deeply involved in building her research group’s capacity by investigating a manyfold of luminescence phenomena.
Her publication record has earned her more than 1000 citations and a H-index of 16 as per webofscience.