Gérard BALDACCHINO

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EDUCATION
2004 HDR – PhD Student Supervising Ability

Chemistry Faculty, University of Paris 11, Orsay, France

1994 PhD thesis: ”Femtochemistry: Relaxation of the geometry of molecules after light excitation in an excited electronic state”

Molecular Chemistry Faculty, University of Paris 11, Orsay, France

Supervisors: Dr Thomas Gustavsson and Dr Jean-Claude Mialocq

1990 Master

Instrumentation/ University of Bordeaux 1, France

1990 Engineer degree: Physics and Chemistry

Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie et de Physique (ENSCPB), Bordeaux, France

CURRENT POSITIONS

2023 – CEA Fellow, Director of the ECR DICO (LIDYL DICO / LPMS of CY Paris University)

2021 – Research Director at CEA

2018 – Group Leader – Dynamics and Interactions in COndensed phase (DICO)

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2004 – Senior expert at CEA; Interaction Radiation Matter of Saclay Institute (IRAMIS), CEA Saclay/ France

1994 – Engineer – Researcher at CEA; Interaction Radiation Matter Institute in Saclay (IRAMIS), CEA Saclay/ France

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2006 – 2007 JSPS Fellow, Professor Katsumura Laboratory/Tokyo University, Nuclear Engineering School/Japan (10 months)

1996 – 1996 Scholarship, Professor Jay-Gerin Laboratory, Sherbrooke University/Canada (3 months)

1991 – 1994 PhD Fellowship. Obtained 3 year CFR funding from CEA Saclay

CURRENT SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

2024 – 2027 Co direction of UNICAEN PhD Student (Kilian Lecrosnier); main supervisor : François Chevalier (IRAMIS/CIMAP)

2021 – 2025 I am co-supervising one PhD student (Jason Mill); Main supervisor: Pr. Dino Jaroszynki, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

2020 – 2023 I am supervising one PhD student (Julien Audouin) and a Master student per year; Chemistry Faculty/ Paris-Saclay University

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2025 Course on Heavy ion irradiations effects @ Winter school of EMIR&A, Roscof, France – 25/01/2025

2021 – 2022 Lecturer – EUGLOH-LAMELIS summer school “Laser in Medecine and Life Sciences”

2016 – 2023 Lecturer – Radiobiologie University Diploma for Medical Doctors / Radiation protection, Free Radicals and Antioxidants / Villejuif, Paris-Saclay University/ France

2016 – 2018 Lecturer – Master2 Cancérologie / ROS Chemistry / Villejuif, Paris-Saclay University / France

2011 – 2019 Lecturer – Master2 Biomaterials / Methodology in research / Reims University / France

2014 – 2016 Lecturer – Master1 Physics of Living Materials / UE Rayonnement et Radiobiologie / Paris-Descartes University / France

2013 – 2016 Lecturer – Master 2 SYVIC / Radiation Chemistry in Extreme Conditions / Lyon Claude Bernard University / France

2013 – 2016 Lecturer – Master 2 Radiochemistry, Radiations, Radiation protection and Radiation Chemistry in nuclear cycle / Nantes University / France

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

2021 and 2023 Co-chair / Workshop NanoTheRad / 120 attendees (hybride conference) / Orsay / France

2019/04/19 Co-chair / 2^nd Annual Conference NanoTheRad / 50 attendees / ISMO / Orsay / France

2018/01/11 Co-chair / 1st Annual Conference NanoTheRad / 50 attendees / SOLEIL / St Aubin / France

2017/09/18-22 Chair / Summer school « Chimie sous Rayonnement et Radiochimie » / 41 attendees / Oléron / France

2011/11/14-15 Conference on Radiation Chemistry : Marie Curie’s Heritage / 70 attendees / Paris « Maison de la Chimie » / France

2010/06/26-28 15th JECR / 110 attendees / Bordeaux « Celliers des Chartrons » / France

2008/11/12-14 Winter school on Radiolysis / CEA training framework / 50 attendees / Domaine du Manet – Châteaufort en Yveline / France

INTERNATIONAL ADVISING SCIENTIFIC COMITTEE

2018 – 2023 R3C Conférences (last JECR)

2008 – Journées d’Etudes de Chimie sous Rayonnement et maintenant (JECR)

2013 – 2015 Asia Pacific Symposium of Radiation Chemistry

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

2020 – Institut des Sciences de la Lumière, Sterring Committee, University Paris-Saclay / France

2019 – iNanoTheRad program, co-Director, University Paris-Saclay / France

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

from 2021 – Treasury, Member, Subdivision of Radiation Chemistry and Radiochemistry, Chemical Physics Division/ French Chemistry Society/ France

2016 – 2021 Founding President, Member, Subdivision of Radiation Chemistry and Radiochemistry, Chemical Physics Division/ French Chemistry Society/ France

MAJOR COLLABORATIONS

Pr. Dino Jaroszynki, Dosimetry of Laser Wakefield Electron Accelerator, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

GEANT4-DNA international collaboration (geant4-dna.org): steering committee member / chemistry activity

Pr. Frederick Currell, CLARA accelerator beamtime sharing for exploiting femtosecond electron pulses, Dalton Cumbria Facility, University of Manchester / UK

Pr. Merhan Mostafavi, ELYSE picosecond electron accelerator – Extreme conditions of temperature in radiation chemistry, Institut de Chimie Physique, University Paris-Saclay

Pr. Yosuke Katsumura, Heavy ion water radiolysis, HIMAC irradiations, University of Tokyo, Japan

10 relevant publications (h-index: 23)

1. Musat, R. M.; Roujou, J.-L.; Dauvois, V.; Ferry, M.; Marchand, C.; Baldacchino, G., New insight on the simultaneous H₂ and HNO₂ production in concentrated HNO₃ aqueous solutions under alpha radiation. RSC Advances 2021, 11 (20), 12141-12152.

2. Andreola, M.-L.; Becquart, F.; Jomaa, W.; Verhoeven, P. O.; Baldacchino, G.; Hemour, S.; Consortium D-Mask, The properties of hot household hygroscopic materials and their potential use for non-medical facemask decontamination. PLOS ONE 2021, 16 (9), e0255148.

3. Maury, P.; Porcel, E.; Lacombe, S.; Baldacchino, G., Comprendre et améliorer les effets cliniques de la hadronthérapie. Actualité Chimique 2021, 460-461, 76-83.

4. Balanikas, E.; Banyasz, A.; Douki, T.; Baldacchino, G.; Markovitsi, D., Guanine Radicals Induced in DNA by Low-Energy Photoionization. Accounts of Chemical Research 2020, 53 (8), 1511-1519.

5. R. Verlet, G. Baldacchino, K. Wolski, S. Miro, D. Gosset, K. Colas, M. Jublot, F. Jomard, M. Tupin, Influence of light ion irradiation of the oxide layer on the oxidation rate of zircaloy-4, Corrosion Science 2015, 98, 327-338.

6. G. Baldacchino, L’apport des ions accélérés dans l’épopée de la chimie sous rayonnement, Histoire de la Recherche Contemporaine (Edition CNRS) 2017, VI(1), 47-55.

7. G. Baldacchino, E. Brun, I. Denden, S. Bouhadoun, R. Roux, H. Khodja, C. Sicard-Roselli Importance Of Radiolytic Reactions During High-Let Irradiation Modalities: Let Effect, Role Of O2 And Radiosensitization By Nanoparticles. Cancer Nanotechnology 2019, 10, 21.

8. A. Balcerzyk, I. Boughattas, S. Pin, E. Balanzat and G. Baldacchino, First Observation of HO Reactivity in Water under High Energy Ions at Elevated Temperature, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 16, 23975-23984.

9. M. Karamitros, S. Luan, M. A. Bernal, J. Allison, G. Baldacchino, M. Davidkova, Z. Francis, W. Friedland, V. Ivantchenko, A. Ivantchenko, A. Mantero, P. Nieminem, G. Santin, H. N. Tran, V. Stepan, S. Incerti., Diffusion-controlled reactions modelling in Geant4-DNA, Journal of Computational Physics, 2014, 274, 841-882.

10. C. Sicard-Roselli, E. Brun, M. Gilles, G. Baldacchino, C. Kelsey, H. McQuaid, C. Polin, N. Wardlow, F. Currell, A new mechanism for hydroxyl radical production in irradiated nanoparticle solutions, Small, 2014, 10, 3338-3346.

11. S. Yamashita, G. Baldacchino, T. Maeyama, M. Taguchi, Y. Muroya, A. Kimura, M. Lin, T. Murakami and Y. Katsumura, •OH-yield Determination in Water Radiolysis by Using a Fluorescent Probe. Chemical Mechanism, LET and Time Dependences, Free Radical Research, 2012, 46(7), 861-871.

Courses

Radiolyse de l’eau – les bases pour comprendre la Radiobiologie et l’appliquer en radiothérapie / Cours du DU de Radiobiologie – UPSud Gustave Roussy

Social and professional Network

• Member of the international consortium GEANT4-DNA (Chemistry processes) (since 2012)
• List of publications and profile @ Research Gate ,  Linkedin