John James Tello Cajiao

John Tello Cajiao is a physicist graduated from the Universidad del Valle, Colombia (2014). He obtained a master degree in Physics at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, in 2016, sponsored by the Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). Afterwards, he got his degrees as Doctor in Applied Physics from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, and Ph.D in Physics from the Università di Pavia, Italy, after carrying out a jointly supervised doctorate in both institutions between 2016 - 2019. During his doctorate studies he was sponsored by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN).He has experience in the areas of computational radiobiology, biophysics and mathematical modelling. His research activities have been mainly focused on the effects of ionizing radiation on the DNA. More specifically, he possesses experience in Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of particle transport, atomistic modelling of the genetic material, simulations of DNA damage at the chromosome level with applications in hadrontherapy, radiation protection and space radiation, and 3D reconstruction of genome structures using chromosome conformation capture (3C, 4C, Hi-C) data in combination with optimization methods. Additionally, he has solid skills in programming as during his PhD he implemented the latest version of the BIANCA biophysical model, nowadays one of the top models for chromosome aberration and cell death simulations. Preferred programming languages: fortran and python.