Felix Mathew is a Ph.D. student in the Biological & Biomedical Engineering department of McGill University. He joined Dr. John Kildea’s Neutron-Induced Carcinogenic Effects research team as a graduate student in the medical radiation physics program. During this time, he developed a passive nested neutron spectrometer for neutron spectral measurements under the supervision of Dr. Kildea. With his expertise in secondary neutron spectral measurements, he had extensively characterized neutrons generated in high-energy radiotherapy in order to understand the risks involved in such treatment procedures. He has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications in this field.

Felix’s research is trying to determine mutation signatures of high-LET radiation, particularly neutrons, through single-cell whole-genome sequencing. Additionally, he is working with tissue cultures, bioinformatics tools and a track-etch detector as part of his research. He is also actively involved in some projects as part of Dr. Kildea’s Radiation Oncology Knowledge Sharing research team that deals with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.