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Pedro Vaz. Works in the area(s) of Exact Sciences with emphasis on Physical Sciences. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Radiation Protection; Dosimetry; Radiation Shielding; Nuclear Technology; Medical Applications of Radiation; Monte Carlo simulations; .
Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo
Pedro Vaz

Nomes de citação

  • Vaz, Pedro
  • Vaz, P.
  • P Vaz
  • Vaz P

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID
001C-AED3-9A77
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7186-2359
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NvroeiUAAAAJ&hl=en
Researcher Id
K-2464-2013
Scopus Author Id
6701751466

Endereços de correio eletrónico

  • pedrovaz@ctn.ist.utl.pt (Profissional)

Domínios de atuação

  • Ciências Exatas - Física

Idiomas

Idioma Conversação Leitura Escrita Compreensão Peer-review
Inglês Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2)
Francês Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C1)
Espanhol; Castelhano Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C1)
Português (Idioma materno)
Percurso profissional

Cargos e Funções

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento
Empregador
2023/01/01 - 2023/08/31 Visiting Research Scholar Georgia Institute of Technology, Estados Unidos
Georgia Institute of Technology / Department of Radiological and Nuclear Sciences and Medical Physics, Estados Unidos
Projetos

Projeto

Designação Financiadores
2020/01/01 - 2024/12/31 Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technologies
UIDB/04349/2020
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Portugal

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluído
Produções

Publicações

Artigo em conferência
  1. Marques, Luís; Vaz, Pedro; Vale, Alberto; Coito, Rui. Autor correspondente: Marques, Luís. "Path optimization of a mobile radiation detection system in security inspection". Trabalho apresentado em Multidisciplinary International Conference of Research Applied to Defense and Security (MICRADS 2024), Santiago do Chile, 2024.
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Artigo em revista
  1. Jorge Lerendegui-Marco; Javier Balibrea-Correa; Victor Babiano-Suarez; César Domingo-Pardo; Gabriel de la Fuente-Rosales; Bernardo Gameiro; Ion Ladarescu; et al. "Direct Experiments of Neutron Capture on Stable and Unstable Isotopes for Stellar Nucleosynthesis Studies". Galaxies (2026): https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/14/3/59.
    10.3390/galaxies14030059
  2. Michele Spelta; Gabriele Cescutti; Sergio Cristallo; Francisco García-Infantes; Alice Manna; Alberto Mengoni; Paolo Maria Milazzo; et al. "First Results of the <sup>64</sup>Ni(n,<i>¿</i>) Cross Section Measurement at n_TOF". Galaxies (2026): https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/14/2/29.
    10.3390/galaxies14020029
  3. A. Campos; A.C. Sá; Y. Romanets; P. Vaz; S. Di Maria. "Real-time dosimetry, organs dose and risk assessment for CBCT thorax protocols in IGRT procedures". Radiography (2026): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2025.103277.
    10.1016/j.radi.2025.103277
  4. V. Alcayne; A. Kimura; E. Mendoza; D. Cano-Ott; O. Aberle; F. Álvarez-Velarde; S. Amaducci; et al. "Measurement of the 244Cm neutron capture cross section at the n_TOF facility at CERN". Annals of Nuclear Energy (2026): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/79817987/.
    10.1016/J.ANUCENE.2025.111977
  5. Perez-Maroto, P.; Guerrero, C.; Casanovas, A.; Fernandez, B.; Mendoza, E.; Alcayne, V.; Lerendegui-Marco, J.; et al. "New measurement of <SUP>50</SUP>Cr and <SUP>53</SUP>Cr (n,¿) cross sections at n_TOF: a call for chromium nuclear data revision". The European Physical Journal A (2026): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/80817358/.
    10.1140/EPJA/S10050-025-01767-3
  6. n_TOF Collaboration; J. Lerendegui-Marco; C. Guerrero; E. Mendoza; J. M. Quesada; K. Eberhardt; A. R. Junghans; et al. "Radiative neutron capture cross section of $$^{242}$$Pu measured at n_TOF-EAR1 in the unresolved resonance region up to 600 keV". The European Physical Journal A (2026): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/82140947/.
    10.1140/EPJA/S10050-026-01788-6
  7. Marco Antonio Martinez-Cañadas; Pablo Torres-Sánchez; Javier Praena; Ignacio Porras; Marta Sabaté-Gilarte; Oliver Aberle; Victor Alcayne; et al. "Measurement of the 35Cl(n, p)35S cross-section at the CERN n$$\_$$TOF facility from subthermal energy to 120 keV". The European Physical Journal A (2026): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/83898476/.
    10.1140/EPJA/S10050-026-01826-3
  8. Zugec, P.; Colonna, N.; Rochman, D.; Barbagallo, M.; Andrzejewski, J.; Perkowski, J.; Ventura, A.; et al. "Energy-differential measurement of the <SUP>nat</SUP>C(<i>n</i>, <i>p</i>) and <SUP>nat</SUP>C(<i>n</i>, <i>d</i>) reactions at the n_TOF facility at CERN". Physical Review C (2026): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/83731010/.
    10.1103/FKFD-CTQQ
  9. Diogo Madaleno; Cecília Borges; Inês Pereira; Joana Santos; Pedro Vaz. "Establishment of typical values in computed tomography to support the optimization of protection in clinical practice". Radiation Protection Dosimetry (2026): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/84656555/.
    10.1093/RPD/NCAG056
  10. Balibrea-Correa, J.; Lerendegui-Marco, J.; Domingo-Pardo, C.; Babiano-Suarez, V.; Ladarescu, I.; Krticka, M.; Cescutti, G.; et al. "First 94Nb(<i>n; ¿</i>) Measurement: Constraining the Nucleosynthetic Origin of 94Mo in Presolar Grains". Physical Review Letters (2026): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/86397375/.
    10.1103/538W-RHQB
  11. J. Balibrea-Correa; V. Babiano-Suarez; J. Lerendegui-Marco; C. Domingo-Pardo; I. Ladarescu; A. Tarifeño-Saldivia; G. de la Fuente-Rosales; et al. "Towards a new generation of solid total-energy detectors for neutron-capture time-of-flight experiments with intense neutron beams". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment (2025): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/72078924/.
    10.1016/J.NIMA.2024.170110
  12. Domingo-Pardo, C.; Aberle, O.; Alcayne, V.; Alpar, G.; Halabi, M. Al; Amaducci, S.; Babiano, V.; et al. "Neutron capture measurements for s-process nucleosynthesis". The European Physical Journal A (2025): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/76011778/.
    10.1140/EPJA/S10050-025-01563-Z
  13. P. Žugec; N. Colonna; D. Rochman; M. Barbagallo; J. Andrzejewski; J. Perkowski; A. Ventura; et al. "Measurement of the natC(n,p) and natC(n,d) reactions from n_TOF at CERN". Physics Letters B (2025): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/76975981/.
    10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2025.139713
  14. J. Lerendegui-Marco; V. Alcayne; V. Babiano-Suarez; M. Bacak; J. Balibrea-Correa; A. Casanovas; C. Domingo-Pardo; et al. "Recent highlights and prospects on (n,<i>¿</i>) measurements at the CERN n_TOF facility". EPJ Web of Conferences (2025): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/77027682/.
    10.1051/EPJCONF/202532903003
  15. V. Michalopoulou; M. Diakaki; N. Kyritsis; M. Kokkoris; R. Vlastou; M. Mavromatakou-Karamitsiou; Z. Eleme; et al. "Measurement of the 235U fission cross section relative to the standard 10B(n, <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" altimg="si40.svg" display="inline" id="d1e141"><mml:mi>a</mml:mi></mml:math>) reaction at the CERN n_TOF facility: Results for E<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" altimg="si7.svg" display="inline" id="d1e146"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mrow/><mm". Applied Radiation and Isotopes (2025): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/77516201/.
    10.1016/J.APRADISO.2025.112063
  16. S. Valente; J. Borbinha; P. Vaz; S. Di Maria. "PENELOPE dose assessment comparison for 177Lu and 161Tb using paediatric computational phantoms". Applied Radiation and Isotopes (2025): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/77578559/.
    10.1016/J.APRADISO.2025.112132
  17. The n_TOF Collaboration; N. Patronis; A. Mengoni; N. Colonna; M. Cecchetto; J. Lerendegui-Marco; O. Aberle; et al. "The CERN n_TOF NEAR station for astrophysics- and application-related neutron activation measurements". The European Physical Journal A (2025): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/78065581/.
    10.1140/EPJA/S10050-025-01674-7
  18. Luís Marques; Francisca Moita; Alberto Vale; Pedro Vaz. "Development of a radiation detection system for the prevention of illicit trafficking of special nuclear materials and radiation sources". EPJ Web of Conferences (2025): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/79005356/.
    10.1051/EPJCONF/202533806008
  19. The n_TOF Collaboration; J. A. Pavón-Rodríguez; J. Lerendegui-Marco; A. Manna; S. Amaducci; M. Sabaté-Gilarte; E. Musacchio-Gonzalez; et al. "Characterisation of the neutron beam in the n_TOF-EAR2 experimental area at CERN following the spallation target upgrade". The European Physical Journal A (2025): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/80030589/.
    10.1140/EPJA/S10050-025-01727-X
  20. A. Sánchez-Caballero; D. Cano-Ott; E. Mendoza; V. Alcayne; J. Andrzejewski; R. Capote; T. Cardinaels; et al. "Low-uncertainty measurement of the 239Pu(n,f) cross section at n_TOF in a very broad energy range from 0.02 eV up to 10 MeV". Physics Letters B (2025): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/80043394/.
    10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2025.140070
  21. Juste, Bel en J.; Verdu, Gumersindo; Fernandez, Jorge E.; Bradley, David; Gallego, Eduardo; Vaz, Pedro. "Special issue: The Fourth International Conference on dosimetry and its applications (ICDA-4) Valencia, 16-20 October 2023". Radiation Physics and Chemistry (2024): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/70335261/.
    10.1016/J.RADPHYSCHEM.2024.112061
  22. Di Maria, S; van Nijnatten, T J A; Jeukens, C R L P N; Vedantham, S; Dietzel, M; Vaz, P. "Understanding the risk of ionizing radiation in breast imaging: Concepts and quantities, clinical importance, and future directions". European Journal of Radiology (2024): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/71161261/.
    10.1016/J.EJRAD.2024.111784
  23. N. V. Sosnin; C. Lederer-Woods; R. Garg; U. Battino; S. Cristallo; M. Dietz; S. Heinitz; et al. "Measurement of the <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mmultiscripts><mml:mi>Se</mml:mi><mml:mprescripts/><mml:none/><mml:mn>78</mml:mn></mml:mmultiscripts><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:mi>n</mml:mi><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mi>¿</mml:mi><mml:mo>)</mml:mo><mml:mmultiscripts><mml:mi>Se</mml:mi><mml:mprescripts/><mml:none/><mml:mn>79</mml:mn></mml:mmultiscripts></mml:mrow><". Physical Review C (2024): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/72078915/.
    10.1103/PHYSREVC.110.065805
  24. V. Alcayne; A. Kimura; E. Mendoza; D. Cano-Ott; T. Martínez; O. Aberle; F. Álvarez-Velarde; et al. "Measurement and analysis of the $$^{246}$$Cm and $$^{248}$$Cm neutron capture cross-sections at the EAR2 of the n_TOF facility at CERN". The European Physical Journal A (2024): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/71904156/.
    10.1140/EPJA/S10050-024-01453-W
  25. F. García-Infantes; J. Praena; A. Casanovas-Hoste; R. Henkelmann; U. Köster; O. Aberle; V. Alcayne; et al. "Measurement of the <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mmultiscripts><mml:mi>Yb</mml:mi><mml:mprescripts/><mml:none/><mml:mn>176</mml:mn></mml:mmultiscripts><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:mi>n</mml:mi><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mi>¿</mml:mi><mml:mo>)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:math> cross section at the n_TOF facility at CERN". Physical Review C (2024): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/72206495/.
    10.1103/PHYSREVC.110.064619
  26. A. Manna; E. Pirovano; P. Console Camprini; L. Cosentino; M. Dietz; Q. Ducasse; P. Finocchiaro; et al. "New insights on fission of 235U induced by high energy neutrons from a new measurement at n_TOF". Physics Letters B (2024): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/72135946/.
    10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2024.139213
  27. Alcayne, V.; Cano-Ott, D.; Garcia, J.; Gonzalez-Romero, E.; Martinez, T.; de Rada, A. Perez; Plaza, J.; et al. "Segmented Total Energy Detector (sTED) optimized for (n,¿) cross-section measurements at n_TOF EAR2 (217, 111525, 2024)". Radiation Physics and Chemistry (2024): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/67818212/.
    10.1016/J.RADPHYSCHEM.2024.111706
Poster em conferência
  1. Valente, Susana; Borbinha, Jorge; Vaz, Pedro; Di Maria, Salvatore. "Dosimetric comparison between 177Lu and 161Tb for paediatric Nuclear Medicine procedures". Trabalho apresentado em European Radiation Protection Week 2022, 2022.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.32684.44168
  2. Borbinha, J.; Di Maria, S.; Vaz, P.. "Dosimetric Assessment in different tumor sub-volumes for Targeted Radionuclide Therapy using 67Ga, 99mTc, 125I, 161Tb and 177Lu". Trabalho apresentado em NOVA Biophysica, 2019.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.11214.84807
  3. Belchior, Ana; Fernandes, A.C.; Paulo, António; F.M.A. Margaca; Mendes, Filipa; Guerreiro, Joana F.; Gano, Lurdes; et al. "Nuclear Sciences and Tecnologies for Proton Therapy and Research in Portugal". Trabalho apresentado em 5th Proton Physics Research and Implementation Group (PPRIG) workshop, 2019.
  4. Santos, P. M. P.; Belchior, Ana; Fernandes, Ana; Paulo, António; F.M.A. Margaca; Mendes, Filipa; Guerreiro, Joana F.; et al. "C2TN Task Force on Proton Therapy and Research". Trabalho apresentado em 2nd Workshop C2TN - Radiation for Science and Society, 2018.
  5. Santos, P. M. P.; Belchior, Ana; Guerreiro, Joana F.; Paulo, António; Mendes, Filipa; Vaz, Pedro; Octávia M. Gil; et al. "Innovative dosimetric and radiobiology approaches and leading-edge methodologies in the medical uses of ionizing radiation". Trabalho apresentado em 2nd Workshop C2TN - Radiation for Science and Society, 2018.
  6. Belchior, A.; Caldeira, M.; Teles, P.; Vaz, P.; Di Maria, S.; Romanets, Y.; Sá, A.C.; et al. "State-of-the-art of Medical physics and Radiation Protection applications in Medicine". Trabalho apresentado em 1st Workshop C2TN: Radiation for Science and Society, 2017.
Resumo em conferência
  1. Paiva, I.; Gil, O. M.; Baptista, M.; Reis, M.; Vaz, P.. "An innovative vision on education and training programs in radiological protection, nuclear and radiation safety". Trabalho apresentado em RICOMET 2016 International Conference - Risk perception, communication and ethics of exposures to ionizing radiation, Bucharest, 2016.
    Publicado
Distinções

Prémio

2025 Fellow of the American Nuclear Society
American Nuclear Society, Estados Unidos
2022 Prémio de Inovação nas Forças Armadas / Innovation Price in the Armed Forces
Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas, Portugal
2014 Outstanding Service Award ("for his long time service to ANS/RPSD most notably in organizing many Conferences as a major representative from the international community and for his outstanding research contributions in radiation protection and shielding")
American Nuclear Society, Estados Unidos

Outra distinção

2014 3 Best Paper Awards - Co-author of 3 articles distinguished in the Conference “Radiation Protection in Medicine 2014 (RPM-2014)", Varna, Bulgaria, 2014.