Impact of increased cosmic rays, UV radiation and fragility of ozone shield on the biosphere and our health

Scientific publications

2025

Al-Qaaod, A., Pierrard, V., Winant, A., Stolzenberg, U., Ambrozova, I., Sommer, M., Slegl, J., Solc, J., Gkikoudi, A., Georgakilas, A. G., Papayannis, A., & Krasniqi, F. S. (2025). Correlation Patterns of Muon Flux With Vertical Atmospheric Profiles: Insights From Monte Carlo Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130(11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025ja034303 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)
Dinger, M., Park, Y., & Baek, W. Y. (2025). Elastic and inelastic electron scattering cross sections of trichlorofluoromethane. Physical Review A, 111(2). https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.111.022809
Dogan, M., Wolff, W., Mootheril, D. M., Pfeifer, T., & Dorn, A. (2025). Electron impact single and double ionization and dissociation: revisiting CF4 and CHF3 with an improved experimental method. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 27(19), 10057-10072. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cp00746a
Dorn, A., Mutaf, H., Orhan, R., Wolff, W., Pfeifer, T., & Ahmedov, H. (2025). Glow discharge induced reactions in mixtures of ozone and chlorodifluoromethane with atmospheric gases (Version 1). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2509.11302
Gkikoudi, A., Manda, G., Beinke, C., Giesen, U., Al-Qaaod, A., Dragnea, E.-M., Dobre, M., Neagoe, I. V., Sangsuwan, T., Haghdoost, S., Vasilopoulos, S. N., Triantopoulou, S., Georgakopoulou, A., Tremi, I., Koutsoudaki, P. N., Havaki, S., Gorgoulis, V. G., Kokkoris, M., Krasniqi, F., … Georgakilas, A. G. (2025). Synergistic Effects of UVB and Ionizing Radiation on Human Non-Malignant Cells: Implications for Ozone Depletion and Secondary Cosmic Radiation Exposure. Biomolecules, 15(4), 536. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom15040536
Granja, C., Chanal, H., Zach, V., Chvátil, D., Oancea, C., Poklop, D., Olšanský, V., & Jakůbek, J. (2025). High-resolution mapping of secondary cosmic rays with miniaturised stacked pixel telescope. Acta Polytechnica, 65(1), 16-24. https://doi.org/10.14311/ap.2025.65.0016
Guerra, C., Leiferman, M., Lozano, A. I., Aguilar-Galindo, F., Díaz-Tendero, S., Oller, J. C., Limão-Vieira, P., & García, G. (2025). Superoxide anion (O2−) collisions with CO2 molecules in the energy range of 50-950 eV. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 162(5). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0242954
Kalamara, A., Stamatelatos, I. E., Stefanopoulos, K. L., Kalef-Ezra, J. A., Georgakilas, A.G., Stewart, R. D., Rangos, V., Knudsen, K. D., Helgesen, G., Trtik, P., Mannes, D., Hovind, J., Kaestner, A., Strobl, M., Vinš, M., Klupák, V., Rabochová, M., Šoltés, J., Milčák, J., … Theodossiou, T. A. (2025). A dosimetric and biological model for neutron capture therapy (NCT) experiments. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 226, 112233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2025.112233
Khazanov, G. V., Pierrard, V., Chu, M., & Botek, E. (2025). Electron Heat Fluxes for the Global Ionospheric Networks. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(15). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025gl116864
Litvinova, O., Yeung, A. W. K., Echeverría, J., Khader, Y., Rahman, Md. M., Said, Z., Lach, K., Sidar, B., Koulaouzidis, A., Aremu, A. O., Simoben, C. V., Boyina, H. K., Usman, F. M., Islam, S. M. S., Patra, J. K., Das, G., Venkatachalam, G., Chopra, H., Niebauer, J., … Atanasov, A. G. (2025). Global innovative perspectives and trends on digital health and patient safety: highlights from the #DHPSP2024 networking event. Exploration of Digital Health Technologies, 3. https://doi.org/10.37349/edht.2025.101166
Logotheti, S., Vasilopoulos, S. N., Tremi, I., Gkikoudi, A., Fragkos, M., Pavlopoulou, A., Havaki, S., & Georgakilas, Alexandros G. (2025). The DNA Damage Response as an Auxiliary Indicator of Senescence in Cancer: A User-Friendly Toolkit of Markers and Detection Methods. In Methods in Molecular Biology (pp. 83-112). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-4426-3_6
Lozano, A. I., Oller, J. C., Limão-Vieira, P., & García, G. (2025). Electron Attachment to Nitric Oxide (NO) Controversy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 129(10), 2429-2433. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.4c07675
Parousis-Paraskevas, O., Gkikoudi, A., Al-Qaaod, A., Vasilopoulos, S. N., Manda, G., Beinke, C., Haghdoost, S., Terzoudi, G. I., Krasniqi, F., & Georgakilas, A. G. (2025). Combined Radiations: Biological Effects of Mixed Exposures Across the Radiation Spectrum. Biomolecules, 15(9), 1282. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom15091282
Pierrard, V., Verhulst, T. G. W., Chevalier, J.-M., Bergeot, N., & Winant, A. (2025). Effects of the Geomagnetic Superstorms of 10-11 May 2024 and 7-11 October 2024 on the Ionosphere and Plasmasphere. Atmosphere, 16(3), 299. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16030299 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)
Pierrard, Viviane, Bolsée, David, Winant, A., Al-Qaaod, A., Krasniqi, F., de Bonhome, M. P., Botek, E., Van Laeken, L., Sapundjiev, D., Van Malderen, R., Mangold, A., Ambrozova, I., Sommer, M., Slegl, J., Geronikolou, S. A., Georgakilas, A. G., Dorn, A., … Rapp, B. (2025). BIOSPHERE measurement campaign from January 2024 to March 2024 and in May 2024: Effects of the solar events on the radiation belts, UV radiation and ozone in the atmosphere. AIMS Geosciences, 11(1), 117-154. https://doi.org/10.3934/geosci.2025007 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)
Reeves, G. D., Ripoll, J., Blum, L. W., Cully, C. M., Colpitts, C. A., Cosmides, M., Elliot, S. S., Ghaffari, R., Greeley, A. D., Horne, R. B., Hosokawa, K., Jaynes, A. N., Kasahara, Y., Kasahara, S., Keika, K., Kurita, S., Malaspina, D. M., Michael, A. T., Millan, R. M., … Yokota, S. (2025). Multi-Platform Observations of the Radial Penetration of Substorm Injected Electrons and Subsequent Slot-Filling Event. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130(11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025ja034329 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)
Shaaban, S. M., Kennis, S., Lazar, M., Pierrard, V., & Poedts, S. (2025). Core-Halo Correlations of Solar Wind Electrons and Temperature Anisotropy Instabilities. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025ja033838 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)
Shen, Chengcai, Li, Xiaocan, Ko, Y.-K., Raymond, J. C., Guo, F., Polito, V., & Pierrard, Viviane. (2025). Modeling of Ionization and Recombination Processes in Plasma with Arbitrary Non-Maxwellian Electron Distribution. The Astrophysical Journal, 988(2), 151. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ade2cf (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)
Winant, A., Pierrard, Viviane, & Botek, E. (2025). Ozone decrease observed in the upper atmosphere following the May 11 th 2024 Mother's day solar storm. Copernicus GmbH. https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-2024-29
Zheng, X., Martinović, M. M., Klein, K. G., Pierrard, Viviane, Liu, Mingzhe, Xue, X., Tao, S., Cheng, K., Wu, Han, & Yu, B. (2025). Quasithermal Noise in Magnetized Plasma: Theory and Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal, 985(1), 114. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/add00f (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)