As one of Europe’s leading academic institutions, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) plays a pivotal role in driving scientific excellence and innovation within the IFIGENEIA project. With its strong multidisciplinary foundation and longstanding research tradition, AUTH brings both leadership and expertise to the project’s mission of advancing next-generation radioisotope production.
Aristotle University founded in 1925, is the largest and a long-established university in Greece. Celebrating its centenary in 2025, AUTH continues to advance excellence across education, research, culture, and societal engagement. With 10 faculties, 41 schools, almost 2,000 faculty members and 95,000 students, AUTH maintains a strong commitment to excellence across education, research, culture, and societal engagement. Its multidisciplinary character—spanning sciences, engineering, health sciences, humanities, and the arts—serves as a key competitive advantage, fostering innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration The university enjoys high international recognition, consistently ranking among the top 400–500 universities worldwide. Its long-standing tradition of impactful research and extensive international collaborations places AUTH at the forefront of European and global scientific networks.
Within the IFIGENEIA project, AUTH serves as the coordinator and leads the Working Package 1 (WP1) Project Management, ensuring full compliance with administrative, financial, and reporting obligations. In addition, AUTH leads the Working Package 3 (WP3), dedicated to the design of the LINAC for radioisotope production and wider societal applications, including archaeometry measurements. The research/experimental activities and accelerator-related developments of the project are carried out at the Laboratory of Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation (LAPI) of AUTHs School of Physics, which provides the necessary infrastructure, facilities and expertise for accelerator-based research and applications. The IFIGENEIA project encompasses the design of the LINAC/RFQ system, beam dynamics simulations, hardware specifications for diverse operational scenarios, beam-target optimization, safety and radiation protection studies, as well as the development of specialized computational tools both for the LINAC operation parameters and for the production and preparation of the radiopharmaceuticals. Through its scientific excellence and multidisciplinary expertise, AUTH plays a central role in advancing the project’s mission to enable safe, reliable, and sustainable radioisotope production in Europe.
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