Watch this educational and personal talk from TEDxAarhus, 2019, from physicist Ludvig Muren on how he applies the understanding of physics to the treatment of cancer.
“As a physicist working on a very hard problem, how to cure patients from cancer, I want to share my fascination of how understanding physics can be used in such a meaningful way as to treat cancer. Underneath all of this is my personal story about how what I do at work every day is connected to my life as a young boy and what happened to me back then. I hope it will also be an inspirational story about how you can turn something as devastating as what happened in my childhood into a strength and motivation.”
Ludvig Muren is professor at the Department of Medical Physics and the Danish Center for Particle Therapy in Aarhus, Denmark. In 2009 he received the Young Elite Scientist Award from the Danish Medical Research Council. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx Ludvig Muren is Professor at the Dept. of Medical Physics and the Danish Center for Particle Therapy, Aarhus University/Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. In 2009 he received the Young Elite Scientist Award from the Danish Medical Research Council. During his career he has acquired full funding for 28 PhD/postdoc projects - amounting to almost 50 million DKK.
“As a physicist working on a very hard problem, how to cure patients from cancer, I want to share my fascination of how understanding physics can be used in such a meaningful way as to treat cancer. Underneath all of this is my personal story, about how what I do at work every day is connected to my life as a young boy and what happened to me back then. I hope it will also be an inspirational story about how you can turn something as devastating as what happened in my childhood into a strength and a motivation.” This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx