List of Publications

Scientific Publications:

  • The DNA Damage Response as an Auxiliary Indicator of Senescence in Cancer: A User-Friendly Toolkit of Markers and Detection Methods.  Stella Logotheti, Spyridon N. Vasilopoulos, Ioanna Tremi, Angeliki Gkikoudi, Michalis Fragkos, Athanasia Pavlopoulou, Sophia Havaki, and Alexandros G. Georgakilas (2025). In: Gorgoulis, V.G., Cavinato, M., Evangelou, K. (eds) Oncogene-Induced Senescence. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2906. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-4426-3_6
  • 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. Viviane Pierrard, David Bolsée, Alexandre Winant, Amer Al-Qaaod, Faton Krasniqi, Maximilien Péters de Bonhome, Edith Botek, Lionel Van Laeken, Danislav Sapundjiev, Roeland Van Malderen, Alexander Mangold, Iva Ambrozova, Marek Sommer, Jakub Slegl, Styliani A Geronikolou, Alexandros G Georgakilas, Alexander Dorn, Benjamin Rapp, Jaroslav Solc, Lukas Marek, Cristina Oancea, Lionel Doppler, Ronald Langer, Sarah Walsh, Marco Sabia, Marco Vuolo, Alex Papayannis, Carlos Granja. AIMS Geosciences, 2025, 11(1): 117-154. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2025007
  • High-resolution mapping of secondary cosmic rays with miniaturised stacked pixel telescope. Granjaa, C., Chanalc, H., Zachd, V., Chvátild, D., Oanceaa, C., Poklopb, D., ... & Jakůbeka, J. (2025).  Acta Polytechnica, 65(1), 16-24. https://doi.org/10.14311/AP.2025.65.0016
  • Effects of the Geomagnetic Superstorms of 10–11 May 2024 and 7–11 October 2024 on the Ionosphere and Plasmasphere. Pierrard, V., Verhulst, T. G., Chevalier, J. M., Bergeot, N., & Winant, A. (2025).
  • Computer-Aided Identification and Design of Ligands for Multi-Targeting Inhibition of a Molecular Acute Myeloid Leukemia Network. Asfa SS, Arshinchi Bonab R, Önder O, Uça Apaydın M, Döşeme H, Küçük C, Georgakilas AG, Stadler BM, Logotheti S, Kale S, Pavlopoulou A. Cancers (Basel). 2024 Oct 25;16(21):3607. doi: 10.3390/cancers16213607. PMID: 39518047; PMCID: PMC11544916.
  • 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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmp.2024.104568.
  • 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.
  •  Solar Wind Density and Core Temperature Derived From the PSP Quasi-Thermal Noise Measurements, Xianming Zheng, Kaijun Liu, Mihailo M. Martinović, Viviane Pierrard, Mingzhe Liu, Qingbao He, Kun Cheng , Yuqi Liu, and Yan Wang, The Astrophysical Journal, 963:154 (6pp) 10 March 2024, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad236d
  • The Mother’s Day solar storm of 11 May 2024 and its effect on Earth’s radiation belts. Viviane Pierrard, Alexandre Winant, Edith Botek, and Maximilien Péters de Bonhome, Universe, 10, 10, 391, 10 October 2024, https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10100391 (DOI: 10.20944/preprints202409.1134.v1) (data DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13626553)
  • Statistics and models of the electron plasma density from the Van Allen Probes. Ripoll, J.-F., S. Thaller, D. Hartley, D. Malaspina, W. Kurth, G. S. Cunningham, V. Pierrard, J. Wygant, Journal of Geophys. Res.: Space Physics, Journal of Geophys. Res.: Space Physics, 129, e2024JA032528. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JA032528.
  • Radial Evolution of Non-Maxwellian Electron Populations Derived from Quasi-Thermal Noise Spectroscopy: Parker Solar Probe Observations, November 2024. Zheng X., Mihailo M. Martinović, Kaijun Liu, Viviane Pierrard, Mingzhe Liu, Kun Cheng, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 977, Number 1, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad7d05
  • High-resolution mapping of secondary cosmic rays by miniaturized stacked pixel telescope. Carlos Granja, Herve Chanalb et al., journal of the Czech TU Prague, Acta Polytechnica. (download here).
  • Dual Targeting of DNA Damage Response Proteins Implicated in Cancer Radioresistance. Vasilopoulos, S.N.; Güner, H.; Uça Apaydın, M.; Pavlopoulou, A.; Georgakilas, A.G.  Genes 2023, 14, 2227. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes14122227
  • DExplore: An Online Tool for Detecting Differentially Expressed Genes from mRNA Microarray Experiments, Katsiki, A.D.; Karatzas, P.E.; De Lastic, H.-X.; Georgakilas, A.G.; Tsitsilonis, O.; Vorgias, C.E. Biology 2024, 13, 351. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology13050351
  • Geomagnetic Storm Effects on the LEO Proton Flux during Solar Energetic Particle Events, Kirolosse M. Girgis, Tohru Hada, Akimasa Yoshikawa, Shuichi Matsukiyo, Viviane Pierrard, Susan W. Samwel, Space weather, 21, 12, e2023SW003664., doi: 10.1029/2023SW003664, 2023. (https://doi.org/10.1029/2023SW003664)
  • The Role of Plasmasphere in the Formation of Electron Heat Fluxes. Khazanov G. V., Pierrard V., Ma Q., Botek E., Journal of Geophys. Res.: Space Physics, Vol. 128, Issue 11, November 2023, e2023JA032013 (https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JA032013)
  • Exospheric Solar Wind Model Based on Regularized Kappa Distributions for the Electrons Constrained by Parker Solar Probe Observations. Pierrard V., M. Péters de Bonhome., Halekas J., Audoor C., and, P. Whittlesey and R. Livi, Plasma, 2023, 6, 518-540. (https://doi.org/10.3390/plasma6030036)

  • Combined experimental and theoretical study on the elastic electron scattering cross sections of ethanol. Dinger, M., Park, Y., Hepperle, P. et al.  Eur. Phys. J. D 77, 52 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-023-00632-6 (Download here)

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

  • Proton flux variations during Solar Energetic Particle Events, minimum and maximum solar activity and splitting of the proton belt in the South Atlantic Anomaly. Pierrard V., S. Benck, E. Botek, S. Borisov, A. Winant (2023), Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2022JA031202. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA031202, DOI: 10.1029/2022JA031202 (Download here)
  • Intense Storm at Low Earth Orbit and Geostationary Transfer Orbit. Viviane Pierrard, Alexandre Winant, Edith Botek, Jean-François Ripoll, Mélanie Cosmides, David M. Malaspina, Geoffrey D. Reeves and Scott A. Thaller, Simultaneous Observations of the 23 June 2015 Intense Storm at at Low Earth Orbit and Geostationary Transfer Orbit, URSI Radio Science Letters, Vol 4 (2022) doi: 10.46620/22-0016 (Download here)
  • Modeling of the cold electron plasma density for radiation belt physics. Ripoll J-F, Pierrard V, Cunningham GS, Chu X, Sorathia KA, Hartley DP, Thaller SA, Merkin VG, Delzanno GL, De Pascuale S and Ukhorskiy AY (2023), Front. Astron. Space Sci. 10:1096595. doi: 10.3389/fspas.2023.1096595 (Download here)
  • Radiation Type- and Dose-Specific Transcriptional Responses across Healthy and Diseased Mammalian Tissues. 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. Antioxidants (2022) 11, 2286. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox11112286 (Download here)
  • Clustered DNA Damage Patterns after Proton Therapy Beam Irradiation Using Plasmid DNA. Souli, M.P.; Nikitaki, Z.; Puchalska, M.; Brabcová, K.P.; Spyratou, E.; Kote, P.; Efstathopoulos, E.P.; Hada, M.; Georgakilas, A.G.; Sihver, L. Int. J. Mol. Sci. (2022) 23, 15606. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232415606 (Download here)

Wide Public:

  • The Biosphere Project: Exploring the impact of solar and cosmic rays on the life on Earth, V. Pierrard, Science Connection 72, p. 8 -13, Dec 2024. (French version) Projet BIOSPHERE: Explorer l’impact des rayonnements cosmiques et solaires sur la vie terrestre. (Dutch version) BIOSPHERE PROJECT: Onderzoek naar de invloed van kosmische straling en zonnestraling op het leven op aarde.
  • Scientists measure cosmic radiation on Milešovka. (Go to the webpage here)
  • Cosmic ray detectors are installed on the top of Milešovka. Interview of I. Ambrožová by Czeck television. (Go to the webpage here)
  • Cosmic rays and atmospheric pollution - how they work together to affect human health and life on our planet is still a question for scientists, on Czeck Radio. (Go to the recording here)
  • Interview from Belgian television about solar eruptions and biosphere project, Interview of Pierrard V., Péters M., Winant A., cunducted by Arendt O.  (Go to the article here)
  • Interview of Viviane Pierrard on Belgian television about recent solar events (https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/quel-temps-pour-la-planete-5797)
  • Projet BIOSPHERE : Comprendre l'impact des rayonnements cosmiques et solaires sur l'évolution de l'atmosphère terrestre, Pierrard V., Ciel et Terre, 140, 3, 50-59, July  2024 (download here) 

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