During the Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) at Santa Fé, US, our fellow Ygor Aguiar (ESR9) received the 2020 Paul Phelps Award from the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS). Although the conference was virtual this year, he acknowledges the importance of receiving this award for the recognition of the work he has developed in the past years. “I'm beyond grateful to receive such prestigious recognition from the specialists of the radiation effects community,” he affirms. This annual award is granted to graduate students or research associates with an exceptional contribution to any of the fields of NPSS. The IEEE NPSS (http://ieee-npss.org/) is a technical society covering the fields of Fusion Technology, Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences, Particle Accelerator Science, Radiation Effects and other related sciences.

Ygor was our early-stage research fellow working on the prediction tools and on the investigation of novel Radiation-Hardening-By-Design (RHBD) techniques against Single-Event Upset (SEU) and Single-Event Transient (SET). He has spent most of his Ph.D. studies in the Université de Montpellier under the supervision of Prof. Frédéric Wrobel and in the Aix-Marseille Université under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Luc Autran. The Ph.D. thesis was defended in December of 2020 and now he is a research fellow in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva. Ygor has authored or co-authored a total of 12 manuscripts published in international peer-reviewed journal in the field of radiation effects on electronics. To find out more about his work within the RADSAGA project, check out this post.