and postdoctoral years, he was involved in the GSI ion beam therapy project. For the next 15 years he was working for the construction of the clinical ion-beam facilities in Heidelberg and Marburg (HIT and [...] various applications for space radiation research and ion beam therapy, in particular for the development of shielding concepts and the implementation of ion-beam modulators. Dr. Johann-Dietrich Wörner Dr. [...] Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Munich. After that, she started her PhD at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in collaboration with the Technical University of Darmstadt. Her PhD work was mostly part