Short CV

Dr. Kostas Perisinakis was born in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in 1968. He received his BSc in Physics from the University of Athens in 1991, his MSc in Medical Physics from the University of Patras in 1995, and his PhD in 1999 from the Medical School of the University of Crete. He joined the Medical Physics Department of the Medical School of the University of Crete in 1996 as Scientific Associate. In 2000 he was elected Lecturer, in 2005 Assistant Professor and in 2015 Associate Professor of Medical Physics in the same institution. He is author or co-author in more than 100 scientific full-papers published in peer-review journals indexed in Index Medicus and PubMed, which have received more than 2600 citations (Scopus, Dec 2019, h-factor=28). He has participated as an invited speaker in more than 80 national/international congresses/seminars. He is member of the Editorial Board of the journal Physica Medica - European Journal of Medical Physics (EJMP) and  serves as Reviewer in peer-review journals such as ‘Medical Physics’, ‘Physics in Medicine and Biology’, ‘Radiology’, ‘European Radiology’, ‘Investigative Radiology’, ‘Journal of American College of Cardiology’ and ‘Circulation’,  among others. He is a member of the Greek Association of Medical Physicists (GAMP), the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and the European Association of Nuclear Medicine. (EANM)

Research Interests

His main research interests are within the areas of

• CT dosimetry and technology
• Quantification of the radiation dose and associated radiogenic risks from radiological procedures
• Optimization of patient/occupational exposure and image quality in radiological procedures