Radiation protection of astronauts in human missions to Mars: simulation and reality

**Please note: Venue details for the Public Colloquium at UQ have changed.

If you wish to attend in person, to comply with COVID-Safe plans we require you to register via Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/women-in-physics-public-colloquium-tickets-156452103453). Seating capacity is capped at 170 seats and we have already over 80 of those seats allocated to schools.

Live stream options are now available for the colloquium and the School seminar at Ipswich SHS. See the flyer below for details.**

This year A/Prof Susanna Guatelli will be presenting school seminars at 4 schools across Cairns, Brisbane, Ipswich and Toowoomba, in addition to a public colloquium at the University of Queensland, St Lucia.

All events are free, although school events are open to school students and teaching staff only. Full details regarding times, venues and RSVP contacts are available in this flyer, or by contacting the QLD AIP branch at: aip_branchsecretary_qld@physics.org.au

A/Prof Guatelli trained as a nuclear physicist at the University of Genova, Italy, worked with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, and is now the academic director of the Medical Radiation Physics bachelor degree at the University of Wollongong.

In 2003, she undertook a PhD at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), investigating possible radiation protection solutions for human missions to Mars (a project led by the European Space Agency). Since there are no particle accelerator facilities capable of reproducing the complex cosmic radiation fields encountered in space, she has developed simulations to predict radiation interactions for astronauts and space mission habitats.

In these seminars, she will discuss the nature of these radiation hazards and the simulation tools used to address this challenge to space exploration.