Peter Woulfe

Peter Woulfe (Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in medical physics from the University of Galway, Galway, Ireland, in 2003, where his thesis was focused on the development of a novel chest phantom for digital radiography. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree from the Optical Fiber Sensor Research Centre (OFSRC), University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, developing radiation dosimeters for monitoring patient doses received during radiotherapy for cancer treatment. On completion of his M.Sc. degree, he took up a role at the National Centre for Laser Applications (NCLA), University of Galway, which led him to his current role as a Radiotherapy Medical Physicist with the Blackrock Health Galway Clinic, Galway, progressing from a Trainee Physicist in 2004 to a Medical Physicist Expert in 2009, and currently the Chief Medical Physicist leading a team of eight Physicists in the Clinic. Mr. Woulfe’s professional affiliations include a membership of the Irish Association of Physicists in Medicine and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and a Full Membership of the Irish College of Physicists in Medicine. He is also registered as a Chartered Scientist in U.K. and with the Health and Care Professions Council in U.K.