List of Publications

Scientific Publications:

Ripoll, J.-F., S. Thaller, D. Hartley, D. Malaspina, W. Kurth, G. S. Cunningham, V. Pierrard, J. Wygant, Statistics and models of the electron plasma density from the Van Allen Probes, 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, June 2024. Zheng X., Mihailo M. Martinović, Kaijun Liu, Viviane Pierrard, Mingzhe Liu, Kun Cheng, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad236d.

High-resolution mapping of secondary cosmic rays by miniaturized stacked pixel telescope: Carlos Granjaa, 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

RadPhysBio: A Radiobiological Database for the Prediction of Cell Survival upon Exposure to Ionizing Radiation, Zanni, V.; Papakonstantinou, D.; Kalospyros, S.A.; Karaoulanis, D.; Biz, G.M.; Manti, L.; Adamopoulos, A.; Pavlopoulou, A.; Georgakilas, A.G., Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2024, 25, 4729. (https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25094729). Link to the database: (http://radbiodb.physics.ntua.gr/radphysbio/), (https://zenodo.org/records/12582567).

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)

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)

The atmospheric influence on cosmic ray induced ionization and absorbed dose rates, Alexandre Winant, Viviane Pierrard, Edith Botek, Konstantin Herbst, Universe, 9, 502, 1-17, 2023. (https://doi.org/10.3390/universe9120502). AtRIS simulation results accessible at (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12543568).

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)

Comparison of radiation belts electron fluxes simultaneously measured with PROBA-V/EPT and RBSP/MagEIS instruments. Winant, A., Pierrard, V., & Botek, E. (2023). Annales Geophysicae, 41, 313–325, 2023 (https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-41-313-2023). Data available at (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12547187).

Prediction of radiation belts electron fluxes at a Low Earth Orbit using neural networks with PROBA-V/EPT data. Botek, E., Pierrard, V., & Winant, A. (2023). Space Weather, 21, e2023SW003466. (https://doi.org/10.1029/2023SW003466). Dataset and Software accessible on zenodo at (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7801368)

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:

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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