Basic Atomic Interactions of Accelerated Heavy Ions in Matter

Inga Tolsikhina graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia in 1987, obtained her PhD degree from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan in 1996 and received the Nagakura Research Incentive Award for advanced PhD theses. From 1996 to 1998 had a postdoctoral Center of Excellence (COE) postion at the National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Japan. Since 2015, she is a visiting professor at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. Since 1998 she is a senior scientist at the Optical Division, Department of Laser Spectroscopy, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Since 2013 she is a member of the 'Atomic and Molecular Data for Fusion Science' Committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria and since 2014 she is an official representative of the University of Electro-Communications (Tokyo, Japan) at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Dolgoprudny, Russia). She specializes in the theory of atomic spectroscopy, plasma spectroscopy, radiative and collisional processes and plasma diagnostics. She is a co-author of 63 scientific publications.

Makoto Imai graduated from Kyoto University, Japan in 1987. He was a research scientist at the Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratory, Atomic Energy Research Institute in Japan from 1989 to 1994 and since 1994 has worked at the Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto University, where he has been an assistant professor since April 1996. He is a member of The Physical Society of Japan, The Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research and The Atomic Collison Society of Japan. He served as an executive board member of The Atomic Collision Society of Japan from 2010 to 2012 and as an editorial board member of the Japan Society of Plasma Science from 2012 to 2014. He co-authored 49 scientific papers in international scientific journals and 1 book from