12 Apr Agreement of cooperation with Crystal Clear Collaboration-CCC
On the Department’s of Biomedical Engineering initiative, the agreement to join the University of West Attica (UNIWA) in the International Scientific Community Crystal Clear Collaboration (CCC) was co-signed by Prof. Etiennette Auffray Hillemanns, spokesperson of CERN’s Crystal Clear Collaboration based in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Rector of the University of West Attica, Professor Panagiotis Kaldis.
The Crystal Clear Collaboration, also known as “Crystal Clear” or “CCC”, was formed in 1990 and approved by CERN’s Detector Research and Development Committee as RD18 in April 1991, with the aim of developing new inorganic scintillators suitable for use in the accelerator LHC. To achieve this goal, the Crystal Clear collaboration has created an interdisciplinary network that includes experts in various aspects of materials science (crystallography, solid-state physics, luminescence, defects in solids) and experts in instrumentation for the detection of high-energy photons. The Crystal Clear collaboration is considered extremely successful and its members come from 32 Research Laboratories and Universities from 20 countries.
The membership proposal was submitted upon the initiative of Assistant Professor Efstratios David of the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of UNIWA, and was unanimously approved by the Council of Representatives of the Scientific Community (Collaboration Board) of Crystal Clear in November 2020 at the 74th meeting (74th CCC Collaboration Board meeting), after the presentation of the Department’s research activities with the CCC.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering of UNIWA is the first Department in Greece to become a member of the CCC of CERN, as a cooperating Institution in the field of Medical Imaging research. The scintillator crystal detectors produced and evaluated for potential application in CERN’s high-energy experiments by CCC have found application in high-tech Medical Imaging detectors, such as Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), but also in specialized molecular imaging systems for use in brain and breast imaging.
As a member of the CCC scientific community, UNIWA strengthens its international presence, with the aim of promoting research, innovation training and education, enabling its faculty members, PhD candidates and researchers to participate together with leading research centers and experienced professors in course of upgrading its detectors Medical Imaging.
The Memorandum of Cooperation has no time limit and CCC members meet twice a year, each November at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland and each May in a different country around the world. The next Crystal Clear Collaboration meeting will be the 79th and will take place on Thursday, May 25th in Bydgoszcz, Poland https://79cccmeeting.org/.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering has a number of professors and researchers who have extensive experience in the evaluation and design of detection devices based on scintillation materials. By signing this Cooperation agreement, its contribution to the international arena will be continued and strengthened.
For further information:
Efstratios David, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at PA.D.A.
Responsible for the cooperation between UNIWA and the Crystal Clear Collaboration (CCC) email: sdavid@uniwa.gr