Dr. Andrea González-Montoro (Valencia, Spain, 1992) is a physicist and Tenured Research Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) since January 2026. With over twelve years of research experience, her work focuses on Positron Emission Tomography (PET) instrumentation, particularly the development of detector blocks and their integration into novel PET systems, with significant scientific, clinical, and industrial impact in the field of molecular imaging.

She earned her Ph.D. in Physics from the Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging (i3M, CSIC–UPV) following training in Medical Physics at the University of Valencia. During her doctoral research, she contributed to major European, NIH, and national projects, including the MR-compatible brain PET system MINDView and the CareMiBrain system, which is commercialized by Oncovision S.L. She defended her Ph.D. in 2018 cum laude with International Distinction, reflecting research stays at TUMMED (Munich, Germany) and the University of Washington (Seattle, USA).

From 2019 to 2021, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, where she worked on high-efficiency time-of-flight (TOF) PET detectors. She subsequently held an APOSTD fellowship before returning to i3M in 2023 under a Ramón y Cajal research fellowship. Her current research focuses on enhancing PET sensitivity, three-dimensional spatial resolution, and timing performance through the exploitation of Cherenkov radiation in BGO crystals.

Dr. González-Montoro is Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant PHOENIX, aimed at developing Spain’s first pediatric PET scanner, and co-Principal Investigator of the national BLUISH project. In addition to her research activities, she serves as Chair of the IEEE NPSS Young Professionals Committee within the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee. She is also a lecturer and co-organizer of IEEE NPSS schools and co-founder and president of Mujeres de Ciencia, an initiative of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences Foundation dedicated to promoting women’s careers in STEM.

Dr. Curry joined IPulse-Group and IPulse Albuquerque LLC in 2024 as a Vice President of Technology Development. The company is focused on commercial pulsed power applications. He is presently focused on pulsed power for mining applications.

In 2021, Dr. Curry joined Sandia National Laboratories as a Distinguished member of the technical staff . As a DMTS he joined the ECSD Scorpius team, the next generation accelerator program being developed by LANL, LLNL, and SNL. In 2022 he transitioned to leading teams involved in the development of high-pressure switches for SF6 replacement and development of advanced materials and technology  for magnetically insulated transmission lines that can potentially reduce plasma losses.

His career has spanned the gamut of Industry (Physics International, Titan Pulse Sciences and Pulse Sciences, Spectra Technology, Tetra Corporation), as well as academia (University of Missouri), and National Laboratories (Sandia National Laboratory).

Dr. Curry has developed advanced concepts and programs for pulsed power and material applications. Dr. Curry has directed interdisciplinary teams of pulsed power and mechanical engineers, physicists, chemists, technicians, microbiologists and staff for advanced research and development applications. The applications include new atmospheric plasma applications, advanced material development for antennas and compact energy storage, compact pulsed power systems, directed energy applications, counter IED applications, soil coupling models, and a new generation of laser triggered switches. The applications also included a long lifetime atmospheric toroidal plasma, new nanodielectrics, biomedical applications of materials and lasers, pulsed power disinfection processes for surfaces and decontamination, food and environmental cleanup, high pressure flowing dielectric switches for directed energy applications and compact pulse power systems for megawatt UV sources. The biomedical team was also responsible for electrostatic decontamination, a technology eventually utilized for Covid disinfection on airplanes. His team was also involved in new applications of nanotechnology for pulsed power systems, as well as new applications of these technologies for the biomedical field.

In his nearly 24 years (40 years total) as a senior member of the Pulsed Power community and leader of advanced electromagnetic application developments, Dr. Curry has served on IEEE committees (Elected and nominated) and chaired the biennial Pulsed Power Conference in 2011. He also served on the IEEE IPHVMC and PPST organizational committees, and has been an associate editor as a service to the community. He was also nominated and served on the IEEE Marie Curie committee. He has organized two IEEE PPC Workshops on Pulsed Power for Fusion, the first workshops held at an IEEE Pulsed Power conference. He is also a 2025 Peter Haas award winner. He is the author of 155 journal and conference publications, and holds 20 patents.

Dr. Yoshinobu Unno is an Emeritus Professor of High-Energy Physics at IPNS, KEK, Japan. He has held leading roles in the development and coordination of radiation-tolerant silicon detector systems for major international projects, including the ATLAS SCT and the ATLAS Inner Tracker for the HL-LHC, serving as Module, R&D, and Sensor co-convener. He has organized and led numerous major international conferences and workshops in semiconductor detectors, including HSTD, VERTEX, and PIXEL, and served in key leadership roles for the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, including NSS Deputy Chair at the IEEE NSS/MIC 2019 in Manchester. He also served on the IEEE Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee (RISC) during the 2018–2020 and 2022–2024 terms.