Erika Kollitz, Ph.D.

  • Medical Physicist
  • Assistant Professor, Radiation Medicine, School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Erika Kollitz received her PhD from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for her work on predicting out-of-field dose and second cancer risk using patient-specific whole-body computational phantoms. She then completed her residency at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where working with the Elekta Unity MR-Linac led to an interest in online adaptive radiotherapy.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • Ph.D., 2022, Louisiana State University & Ludwig Maximilian University

  • Residency

    • University of Florida, 2024

Memberships and associations:

  • AAPM

Areas of interest

  • Machine lead on Linac 3 TrueBeam
  • HDR Brachytherapy
  • Residency training: Ethics and Professionalism & Machine Commissioning
  • Particle Interactions
  • MP564: Beam Characterization and Reference Dosimetry
  • Medical physics education and outreach
  • Adaptive radiotherapy

Publications

Publications