Scientific publications

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Pierrard, V., & Winant, A. (2026). Atmospheric Loss of Energetic Electrons and Protons from the Radiation Belts After the Exceptional Injection of the 11 May 2024 Superstorm Leading to Four Electron Belts. Atmosphere, 17(3), 324. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos17030324 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Zheng, X., Martinović, M. M., Klein, K. G., Pierrard, V., Liu, M., Ember, W., Wu, T., Wang, Y., Li, J., Yu, B., & Xue, X. (2025). Electrostatic Thermal Noise in Magnetized Weakly Ionized Collisional Plasmas. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 131(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025ja034176 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Zheng, X., Martinović, M. M., Klein, K. G., Pierrard, V., Liu, M., Wang, Y., Wu, T., Ember, W., Li, J., Maruyama, N., Chi, Y., Yao, Y., Yu, B., & Xue, X. (2026). First in Situ Estimates of the Sheath Resistance for the PSP/FIELD Antenna: Employing an Electron Shot Noise Model. The Astrophysical Journal, 997(2), 137. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae25e6 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Al-Qaaod, A., Pierrard, V., Winant, A., Stolzenberg, U., Ambrozova, I., Sommer, M., Slegl, J., Solc, J., Gkikoudi, A., Georgakilas, A. G., Papayannis, A., & Krasniqi, F. S. (2025). Correlation Patterns of Muon Flux With Vertical Atmospheric Profiles: Insights From Monte Carlo Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130(11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025ja034303 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Dinger, M., Park, Y., & Baek, W. Y. (2025). Elastic and inelastic electron scattering cross sections of trichlorofluoromethane. Physical Review A, 111(2). https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.111.022809

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Dogan, M., Wolff, W., Mootheril, D. M., Pfeifer, T., & Dorn, A. (2025). Electron impact single and double ionization and dissociation: revisiting CF4 and CHF3 with an improved experimental method. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 27(19), 10057-10072. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cp00746a

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Dorn, A., Mutaf, H., Orhan, R., Wolff, W., Pfeifer, T., & Ahmedov, H. (2025). Glow discharge induced reactions in mixtures of ozone and chlorodifluoromethane with atmospheric gases (Version 1). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2509.11302

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Gkikoudi, A., Manda, G., Beinke, C., Giesen, U., Al-Qaaod, A., Dragnea, E.-M., Dobre, M., Neagoe, I. V., Sangsuwan, T., Haghdoost, S., Vasilopoulos, S. N., Triantopoulou, S., Georgakopoulou, A., Tremi, I., Koutsoudaki, P. N., Havaki, S., Gorgoulis, V. G., Kokkoris, M., Krasniqi, F., … Georgakilas, A. G. (2025). Synergistic Effects of UVB and Ionizing Radiation on Human Non-Malignant Cells: Implications for Ozone Depletion and Secondary Cosmic Radiation Exposure. Biomolecules, 15(4), 536. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom15040536

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Granja, C., Chanal, H., Zach, V., Chvátil, D., Oancea, C., Poklop, D., Olšanský, V., & Jakůbek, J. (2025). High-resolution mapping of secondary cosmic rays with miniaturised stacked pixel telescope. Acta Polytechnica, 65(1), 16-24. https://doi.org/10.14311/ap.2025.65.0016

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Guerra, C., Leiferman, M., Lozano, A. I., Aguilar-Galindo, F., Díaz-Tendero, S., Oller, J. C., Limão-Vieira, P., & García, G. (2025). Superoxide anion (O2−) collisions with CO2 molecules in the energy range of 50-950 eV. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 162(5). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0242954

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Kalamara, A., Stamatelatos, I. E., Stefanopoulos, K. L., Kalef-Ezra, J. A., Georgakilas, A. G., Stewart, R. D., Rangos, V., Knudsen, K. D., Helgesen, G., Trtik, P., Mannes, D., Hovind, J., Kaestner, A., Strobl, M., Vinš, M., Klupák, V., Rabochová, M., Šoltés, J., Milčák, J., … Theodossiou, T. A. (2025). A dosimetric and biological model for neutron capture therapy (NCT) experiments. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 226, 112233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2025.112233

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Khazanov, G. V., Pierrard, V., Chu, M., & Botek, E. (2025). Electron Heat Fluxes for the Global Ionospheric Networks. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(15). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025gl116864

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Litvinova, O., Yeung, A. W. K., Echeverría, J., Khader, Y., Rahman, Md. M., Said, Z., Lach, K., Sidar, B., Koulaouzidis, A., Aremu, A. O., Simoben, C. V., Boyina, H. K., Usman, F. M., Islam, S. M. S., Patra, J. K., Das, G., Venkatachalam, G., Chopra, H., Niebauer, J., … Atanasov, A. G. (2025). Global innovative perspectives and trends on digital health and patient safety: highlights from the #DHPSP2024 networking event. Exploration of Digital Health Technologies, 3. https://doi.org/10.37349/edht.2025.101166

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Logotheti, S., Vasilopoulos, S. N., Tremi, I., Gkikoudi, A., Fragkos, M., Pavlopoulou, A., Havaki, S., & Georgakilas, A. G. (2025). The DNA Damage Response as an Auxiliary Indicator of Senescence in Cancer: A User-Friendly Toolkit of Markers and Detection Methods. In Methods in Molecular Biology (pp. 83-112). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-4426-3_6

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Lozano, A. I., Oller, J. C., Limão-Vieira, P., & García, G. (2025). Electron Attachment to Nitric Oxide (NO) Controversy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 129(10), 2429-2433. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.4c07675

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Parousis-Paraskevas, O., Gkikoudi, A., Al-Qaaod, A., Vasilopoulos, S. N., Manda, G., Beinke, C., Haghdoost, S., Terzoudi, G. I., Krasniqi, F., & Georgakilas, A. G. (2025). Combined Radiations: Biological Effects of Mixed Exposures Across the Radiation Spectrum. Biomolecules, 15(9), 1282. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom15091282

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Pierrard, V., Bolsée, D., Winant, A., Al-Qaaod, A., Krasniqi, F., de Bonhome, M. P., Botek, E., Van Laeken, L., Sapundjiev, D., Van Malderen, R., Mangold, A., Ambrozova, I., Sommer, M., Slegl, J., Geronikolou, S. A., Georgakilas, A. G., Dorn, A., … Rapp, B. (2025). BIOSPHERE measurement campaign from January 2024 to March 2024 and in May 2024: Effects of the solar events on the radiation belts, UV radiation and ozone in the atmosphere. AIMS Geosciences, 11(1), 117-154. https://doi.org/10.3934/geosci.2025007 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Pierrard, V., Verhulst, T. G. W., Chevalier, J.-M., Bergeot, N., & Winant, A. (2025). Effects of the Geomagnetic Superstorms of 10-11 May 2024 and 7-11 October 2024 on the Ionosphere and Plasmasphere. Atmosphere, 16(3), 299. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16030299 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Reeves, G. D., Ripoll, J., Blum, L. W., Cully, C. M., Colpitts, C. A., Cosmides, M., Elliot, S. S., Ghaffari, R., Greeley, A. D., Horne, R. B., Hosokawa, K., Jaynes, A. N., Kasahara, Y., Kasahara, S., Keika, K., Kurita, S., Malaspina, D. M., Michael, A. T., Millan, R. M., … Yokota, S. (2025). Multi-Platform Observations of the Radial Penetration of Substorm Injected Electrons and Subsequent Slot-Filling Event. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130(11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025ja034329 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Shaaban, S. M., Kennis, S., Lazar, M., Pierrard, V., & Poedts, S. (2025). Core-Halo Correlations of Solar Wind Electrons and Temperature Anisotropy Instabilities. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025ja033838 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Shen, C., Li, X., Ko, Y.-K., Raymond, J. C., Guo, F., Polito, V., & Pierrard, V. (2025). Modeling of Ionization and Recombination Processes in Plasma with Arbitrary Non-Maxwellian Electron Distribution. The Astrophysical Journal, 988(2), 151. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ade2cf (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Winant, A., Pierrard, V., & Botek, E. (2025). Ozone decrease observed in the upper atmosphere following the May 11 th 2024 Mother's day solar storm. Copernicus GmbH. https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-2024-29

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Zheng, X., Martinović, M. M., Klein, K. G., Pierrard, V., Liu, M., Xue, X., Tao, S., Cheng, K., Wu, H., & Yu, B. (2025). Quasithermal Noise in Magnetized Plasma: Theory and Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal, 985(1), 114. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/add00f (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Asfa, S. S., Arshinchi Bonab, R., Önder, O., Uça Apaydın, M., Döşeme, H., Küçük, C., Georgakilas, A. G., Stadler, B. M., Logotheti, S., Kale, S., & Pavlopoulou, A. (2024). Computer-Aided Identification and Design of Ligands for Multi-Targeting Inhibition of a Molecular Acute Myeloid Leukemia Network. Cancers, 16(21), 3607. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16213607

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Dinger, M., Park, Y., & Baek, W. Y. (2024). Differential elastic scattering and electron-impact ionization cross sections of nitrous oxide. The European Physical Journal D, 78(7). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00880-0

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Katsiki, A. D., Karatzas, P. E., De Lastic, H.-X., Georgakilas, A. G., Tsitsilonis, O., & Vorgias, C. E. (2024). DExplore: An Online Tool for Detecting Differentially Expressed Genes from mRNA Microarray Experiments. Biology, 13(5), 351. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology13050351

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Lozano, A. I., Rosado, J., Blanco, F., Limão-Vieira, P., & García, G. (2024). Integral Electron Scattering Cross Sections from N2O for Impact Energies Ranging from 1 to 1000 eV. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 128(3), 699-708. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.3c07708

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Pierrard, V., Winant, A., Botek, E., & Péters de Bonhome, M. (2024). The Mother's Day Solar Storm of 11 May 2024 and Its Effect on Earth's Radiation Belts. Universe, 10(10), 391. https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10100391 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Ren, X., Hossen, K., Jia, S., Zhou, J., Xue, X., Pfeifer, T., & Dorn, A. (2024). Electron-electron-ion triple-coincidence experiment of electron-initiated valence ionization of small water clusters. Physical Review A, 110(4). https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.042801

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Ripoll, J. -F., Thaller, S. A., Hartley, D. P., Malaspina, D. M., Kurth, W. S., Cunningham, G. S., Pierrard, V., & Wygant, J. (2024). Statistics and Models of the Electron Plasma Density From the Van Allen Probes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129(8). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024ja032528 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Wolff, W., Dogan, M., Luna, H., Coutinho, L. H., Mootheril, D., Baek, W., Pfeifer, T., & Dorn, A. (2024). Absolute electron impact ionization cross-sections for CF4: Three dimensional recoil-ion imaging combined with the relative flow technique. Review of Scientific Instruments, 95(9). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0219527

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Zanni, V., Papakonstantinou, D., Kalospyros, S. A., Karaoulanis, D., Biz, G. M., Manti, L., Adamopoulos, A., Pavlopoulou, A., & Georgakilas, A. G. (2024). RadPhysBio: A Radiobiological Database for the Prediction of Cell Survival upon Exposure to Ionizing Radiation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(9), 4729. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25094729

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Zheng, X., Liu, K., Martinović, M. M., Pierrard, V., Liu, M., He, Q., Cheng, K., Liu, Y., & Wang, Y. (2024). Solar Wind Density and Core Temperature Derived from the PSP Quasi-thermal Noise Measurements. The Astrophysical Journal, 963(2), 154. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad236d (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Zheng, X., Martinović, M. M., Pierrard, V., Klein, K. G., Liu, M., Abraham, J. B., Liu, Y., Luo, J., Lin, X., Liu, G., & Li, J. (2024). Radial Evolution of Non-Maxwellian Electron Populations Derived from Quasi-thermal Noise Spectroscopy: Parker Solar Probe Observations. The Astrophysical Journal, 977(1), 39. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad7d05 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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RadPhysBio: A Radiobiological Database for the Prediction of Cell Survival upon Exposure to Ionizing Radiation. V. Zanni, D. Papakonstantinou, S.A. Kalospyros, D. Karaoulanis, G.M. Biz, A. Adamopoulos, A. Pavlopoulou, A.G. Georgakilas, Physica Medica, Volume 127, Supplement 1, 2024, 104568, ISSN 1120-1797, (download here).

Induction of complex DNA damage after proton therapy beam irradiation to plasmid DNA and human prostate cancer cells. Souli, M. P., Nikitaki, Z., Spyratou, E., Efstathopoulos, E. P., Sihver, L., & Georgakilas, A. G. (2024). PP. 7.2 Physica Medica, 127, 104613.

Radiobiological effects of protons or gamma rays and uvb radiation on human cells. Gkikoudi, A., Vasilopoulos, S. N., Beinke, C., Al-Qaaod, A., Giesen, U., Krasniqi, F & Georgakilas, A. G. (2024). O. Physica Medica, 127, 104567.

Development and evaluation of a proton irradiation experimental setup for use in human cells. Zonitsas, S., Gkikoudi, A., Vasilopoulos, S. N., Georgakopoulou, A., Chasapoglou, S., Diakaki, M. & Georgakilas, A. G. (2024). P. Physica Medica, 127, 104707.

Flash radiation therapy: a review on the ultra-high dose rate paradigm of radiotherapy. Koutsostathis, A., Rangos, V., Adamopoulou, A., Koumenis, C., & Georgakilas, A. G. (2024). P. 1.19 Physica Medica, 127, 104641.

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Botek, E., Pierrard, V., & Winant, A. (2023). Prediction of radiation belts electron fluxes at a Low Earth Orbit using neural networks with PROBA-V/EPT data. Space Weather, 21(7). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023sw003466 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Dinger, M., Park, Y., Hepperle, P., & Baek, W. Y. (2023). Combined experimental and theoretical study on the elastic electron scattering cross sections of ethanol. The European Physical Journal D, 77(4). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-023-00632-6

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Edith Botek, Viviane Pierrard, & Alexandre Winant. (2023). Data and Software : Prediction of radiation belts electron fluxes at a Low Earth Orbit using Neural Networks with PROBA-V/EPT data (Version V1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7801368

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Girgis, K. M., Hada, T., Yoshikawa, A., Matsukiyo, S., Pierrard, V., & Samwel, S. W. (2023). Geomagnetic Storm Effects on the LEO Proton Flux During Solar Energetic Particle Events. Space Weather, 21(12). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023sw003664 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Khazanov, G. V., Pierrard, V., Ma, Q., & Botek, E. (2023). The role of plasmasphere in the formation of electron heat fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128(11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023ja032013 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Logotheti, S., & Georgakilas, A. G. (2023). More than Meets the Eye: Integration of Radiomics with Transcriptomics for Reconstructing the Tumor Microenvironment and Predicting Response to Therapy. Cancers, 15(6), 1634. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15061634

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Effects of the Sun on the space environment of the Earth, Pierrard V., Book at Presses Universitaires de Louvain, ISBN: 978-2-39061-442-5, 208 p., 2024. (https://i6doc.com/en/book/?gcoi=28001100628290)

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Pierrard, V., Benck, S., Botek, E., Borisov, S., & Winant, A. (2023). Proton flux variations during solar energetic particle events, minimum and maximum solar activity, and splitting of the proton belt in the South Atlantic Anomaly. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022ja031202 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Pierrard, V., Péters de Bonhome, M., Halekas, J., Audoor, C., Whittlesey, P., & Livi, R. (2023). Exospheric Solar Wind Model Based on Regularized Kappa Distributions for the Electrons Constrained by Parker Solar Probe Observations. Plasma, 6(3), 518-540. https://doi.org/10.3390/plasma6030036 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Ripoll, J.-F., Pierrard, V., Cunningham, G. S., Chu, X., Sorathia, K. A., Hartley, D. P., Thaller, S. A., Merkin, V. G., Delzanno, G. L., De Pascuale, S., & Ukhorskiy, A. Y. (2023). Modeling of the cold electron plasma density for radiation belt physics. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2023.1096595 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Vasilopoulos, S. N., Güner, H., Uça Apaydın, M., Pavlopoulou, A., & Georgakilas, A. G. (2023). Dual Targeting of DNA Damage Response Proteins Implicated in Cancer Radioresistance. Genes, 14(12), 2227. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes14122227

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Winant, A., Pierrard, V., Botek, E., & Herbst, K. (2023). The Atmospheric Influence on Cosmic-Ray-Induced Ionization and Absorbed Dose Rates. Universe, 9(12), 502. https://doi.org/10.3390/universe9120502 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Winant, A., Pierrard, V., & Botek, E. (2023). Comparison of radiation belt electron fluxes simultaneously measured with PROBA-V/EPT and RBSP/MagEIS instruments. Annales Geophysicae, 41(2), 313-325. https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-41-313-2023 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Winant, A., Pierrard, V., Botek, E., & Herbst, K. (2023). Atmospheric Response Matrices (ARMs) computed with AtRIS in: The Atmospheric Influence on Cosmic-Ray-Induced Ionization and Absorbed Dose Rates [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12543568

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Sagkrioti, E., Biz, G. M., Takan, I., Asfa, S., Nikitaki, Z., Zanni, V., Kars, R. H., Hellweg, C. E., Azzam, E. I., Logotheti, S., Pavlopoulou, A., & Georgakilas, A. G. (2022). Radiation Type- and Dose-Specific Transcriptional Responses across Healthy and Diseased Mammalian Tissues. Antioxidants, 11(11), 2286. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox11112286

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Simultaneous Observations of the June 23, 2015, Intense Storm at Low Earth Orbit and Geostationary Transfer Orbit. (2023). URSI Radio Science Letters, 4. https://doi.org/10.46620/22-0016 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)

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Souli, M. P., Nikitaki, Z., Puchalska, M., Brabcová, K. P., Spyratou, E., Kote, P., Efstathopoulos, E. P., Hada, M., Georgakilas, A. G., & Sihver, L. (2022). Clustered DNA Damage Patterns after Proton Therapy Beam Irradiation Using Plasmid DNA. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(24), 15606. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232415606