Dr Lucia Florescu

Lucia Florescu  joined the University of Surrey in  2017 as a Lecturer in Medical Imaging and  Wellcome Trust Fellow. Prior to joining Surrey, she worked in research and development at Elekta, acting as a Lead Physicist on the conception, development and implementation of cutting-edge technologies for image-guided radiation therapy and image-based radiation dosimetry. Prior to this, she was  an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University, a Research Associate at  the University of Pennsylvania, a US Academy of Sciences (NRC) scholar at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, and a California Nano-Systems Institute & Hewlett Packard  postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Los Angeles. She has received her PhD in Physics from the University of Toronto.

Her research focuses on developing a fundamental understanding of the interaction between radiation and biological tissue and exploiting this to devise new techniques and image reconstruction algorithms for advanced biomedical tomographic imaging.