Directeur de recherche CEA, niveau d’expertise : Fellow
Laboratoire Interactions, Dynamiques et Lasers (LIDYL)
Directeur de l’Équipe Commune de Recherche « Dynamique Interaction en phase COndensée » (DICO) – LIDYL(CEA)/LPMS(CY Paris Université)
Tel : +33 1 69 08 57 02
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Researcher identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4126-6003
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CEA Paris-Saclay, Orme des Merisiers, Bâtiment 701
91191 Gif sur Yvette / France
Current position
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
Éducation
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
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 / 2nd 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
14th Winter school on Radiolysis / CEA training framework / 50 attendees / Domaine du Manet – Châteaufort en Yveline / France
International advising scientific comittee
2018 – 2023
R3C Conférences (previously 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 collabrations
- 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: 27 @ Oct,10 2024
- A. V. Solov’yov, A. V. Verkhovtsev, N.J. Mason, R.A. Amos, I. Bald, G. Baldacchino, B. Dromey, M. Falk, J. Fedor, L. Gerhards, M. Hausmann, G. Hildenbrand, M. Hrabovský, S. Kadlec, J. Kočišek, F. Lépine, S. Ming, A. Nisbet, K. Ricketts, L. Sala, T. Schlathölter, A. Wheatley, I.A. Solov’yov, Condensed Matter Systems Exposed to Radiation: Multiscale Theory, Simulations, and Experiment, Chem. Rev. 124 (2024) 8014–8129. https://doi.org/10.1021/ACS.CHEMREV.3C00902.
- J. Audouin, P. Hofverberg, Y. Ngono-Ravache, L. Desorgher, G. Baldacchino, Intermediate LET-like effect in distal part of proton Bragg peak revealed by track-ends imaging during super-Fricke radiolysis, Sci. Rep. 13 (2023) 15460. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-42639-4.
- M.-L.L. Andreola, F. Becquart, W. Jomaa, P.O. Verhoeven, G. Baldacchino, S. Hemour, and D-Mask Consortium (CoVid19), The properties of hot household hygroscopic materials and their potential use for nonmedical facemask decontamination, PLoS One. 16 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255148.
- E. Balanikas, A. Banyasz, T. Douki, G. Baldacchino, D. Markovitsi, Guanine Radicals Induced in DNA by Low-Energy Photoionization, Acc. Chem. Res. 53 (2020) 1511–1519. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00245.
- 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 Nanotechnol. 10 (2019) 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12645-019-0047-y.
- 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.
- 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. 10 (2014) 3338–3346. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201400110.
- 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 modeling in Geant4-DNA, J. Comput. Phys. 274 (2014) 841–882. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2014.06.011.
- S. Yamashita, M. Taguchi, G. Baldacchino, Y. Katsumura, Radiation Chemistry of Liquid Water with Heavy Ions: Steady-States and Pulse Radiolysis Studies, in: Y. Hatano, Y. Katsumura, A. Mozumder (Eds.), Charg. Part. Phot. Interact. with Matter. Recent Adv. Appl. Interfaces., CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, 2011: pp. 325–354. https://doi.org/10.1201/b10389.
- G. Baldacchino, Pulse radiolysis in water with heavy-ion beams. A short review, Radiat. Phys. Chem. 77 (2008) 1218–1223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2008.05.033.
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)