In radiological emergencies, regulators must make prompt decisions under tight timeframes. Because decisions based on uncertain data can cause overprotection, unnecessary costs, or health effects, my work supports an international project aimed at reducing these uncertainties.
The goal is providing metrologically sound data to strengthen regulatory decision-making, fulfill EU directives and IAEA requirements, and identify measurement gaps, ultimately helping set proportional protective actions that safeguard public health while minimizing trade disruptions for food and goods.
Within this framework, my work focuses on analyzing and improving laboratory measurement methods especially for food and drinking water. Drawing on my background in radiochemical analysis, my objective is to develop and optimize high throughput workflows, improved sample pretreatment methods, and rapid radiometric and mass spectrometric analysis techniques to significantly reduce sample measurement time.
