A. Wrońska

I am an experimental nuclear physicist. Already during my physics studies at the Jagiellonian University, I started participating in experiments in the Institute for Nuclear Physics, Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ), where I later continued with my PhD project located in fundamental research and comprising investigation of the possible existence of eta-mesic nuclei. After the completion of the PhD, I remained active in several projects pursued at FZJ, including experiments WASA-at-COSY and JEDI. The first of them scrutinized the interactions of mesons with nucleons and meson decays, which allowed for testing fundamental symmetries or searching for exotic states like pentaquarks. The second one aimed at ta search for the deuteron electric dipole moment. Its non-zero value would allow casting light onto issues like dark matter or matter-antimatter asymmetry. In parallel to those studies, I was involved in other projects: PANDA, where I participated in the design studies of detectors doing simulations, and A Few Body Experiment Group, within which we conducted experiments at KVI Groningen, CCB Kraków and FZ Juelich, searching of three-body effects in breakup reactions. In 2013 I redirected my research to applications and formed a group that, in collaboration with colleagues from RWTH Aachen, investigated prompt-gamma radiation emitted from a patient during proton therapy. Having characterized the radiation via a series of experiments at HIT Heidelberg and CCB Kraków, we are now building a setup that could allow exploiting this radiation for online monitoring of the therapy. Besides the research, I am an active and devoted academic teacher, involved in gender-equality topics (worked for a year as dean’s proxy for gender equality), and in the service for the community (worked for 10 years as a scientific secretary of MESON conference series).