Chief Medical Physicist
Department of Nuclear Medicine, West German Cancer Center, University Hospital Essen, Germany
Pedro Fragoso Costa completed his undergraduate degree in Nuclear Medicine in 2009, during which he also had an Erasmus experience at the university clinics of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. He began working in 2010 as a Nuclear Medicine Technician (NMT) at the Passau Clinic (University of Regensburg) and later at the University of Oldenburg, where he continued working as an NMT until 2016. In 2014, he started his studies in Medical Physics (MP) and completed his master's degree in 2017.
In 2012, he started collaborating with the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), a collaboration that continues to this day. He has held various positions within EANM, including serving as the chairman of the technical committee, senior advisor, and currently being a member of the translational research committee (TMI&T).
In 2017, he began his career as a Medical Physicist at the University Medical Center Essen (UKE) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDUE), obtaining certification as a specialist in Nuclear Medicine and responsibility for radiation protection and safety in 2019. In 2019, he assumed the position of Chief Physicist of the Nuclear Medicine Service at UKE. In March 2023 he finished his doctoral degree in medical sciences.
Pedro Fragoso Costa has authored chapters, original articles, abstracts, and conference papers primarily focused on radiation protection and safety, occupational exposure optimization, PET quantification, preclinical hybrid imaging, radioguided surgery, offline PET after proton therapy, and clinical and experimental dosimetry. He is also a guest lecturer at the University of Oldenburg (Klinikum Oldenburg), the University of Applied Sciences in Bochum (Technischen Akademie Wuppertal – TAW), and the School of Health Technicians at UKE. You can find more about him on his ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8926-4541.
