Young scientist award
  

Ensuring competence in the field of radiation safety requires the education and encouragement of qualified professionals and trainees. The promotion of young scientists is therefore of high importance for the European IRPA societies. For this purpose the societies participating in the organisation of the congress offered an award for the best scientific or professional contribution(s). The award carried remuneration.      National societies were responsible for the nomination of their candidates; they were expected to supported the participation of the candidates in the congress.      The abstract had to be submitted to the programme committee of the congress before November 1, 2009. The abstract had to be accompanied by a CV and an explanatory statement of the nominating society. When accepted, the presentation was integrated into the scientific programme. A jury elected the award winning contribution.
The Award in 2010 was presented to
Harald Breitkreutz
honouring for the work titled Measurements and simulations of fission neutron spectra at the MEDAPP beam at FRM II and subsequent developments Harald Breitkreutz was nominated by the Fachverband für Strahlenschutz e.V. from Germany.
Other candidates nominated by the national societies (in alphabetical order):
Nominee	Work		Nominating society
Damien Braekers	Reduction of radioxenon emissions from radiopharmaceutical facilities — A pilot study		BVS/ABR, BELGIUM
Valeria Gruber	Public exposure by natural radionuclides in drinking water — Models for effective dose assessment and implications to guidelines		Österreichisher Verband für Strahlenschutz, AUSTRIA
Michał A. Gryziński	Radiation protection dosimetry using recombination chambers at radiotherapy facilities		Radiation Protection Section of the Polish Society of Medical Physics, Poland
Attila Hirn	Results of model calculations and algorithm development related to a 3D silicon detector dosimetric telescope		Hungarian Radiation Protection Association, Hungary
Tjerk Kuipers	Feasibility study of a Low Cost Wireless Ionising Radiation Sensor Network		Dutch Society for Radiation Protection, the Netherlands
Martina Rožmarić Mačefat	Sequential separation of alpha and beta emitters from natural samples by mixed solvent anion exchange and their subsequent determination		Croatian Radiation Protection Association (CRPA), CROATIA
Tomáš Vrba	Development of approaches for realistic retrospective evaluation of doses of selected cases of internal contamination		Czech Radiation Protection Society, Czech Republic
Luca Zanibellato	Experimental monitoring of Ozone production around a biomedical cyclotron		AIRP (Italian Association of Radioprotection), ITALY