Daniel A. Alexander, PhD
Appointments/Titles:
Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology and Applied Sciences
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
Associate Program Director, Medical Physics Residency Program
Education and Training:
B.S. Physics | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2017
M.S. Physics | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2018
Ph.D. Medical Physics | Dartmouth College, 2022
Residency Therapeutic Medical Physics | University of Pennsylvania, 2025
About Dr. Alexander:
Dr. Alexander is a medical physicist with a passion for quality improvement in radiation therapy. His clinical interests include workflow standardization, surface-guided radiation therapy, brachytherapy, knowledge-based planning, and stereotactic radiation therapy planning. His research has focused on the development of Cherenkov imaging and scintillation-based dosimetry measurements, and he is an active collaborator on these efforts in the Optics in Medicine lab at the Thayer School of Engineering. He is also active in automating radiation oncology workflows to improve efficiency and standardization in clinical workflows by leveraging AI and scripting tools. As a core faculty member and alum of the medical physics graduate program, as well as associate director of the medical physics residency program, he is both active in and passionate about training the next generation of clinical physicists, both at the graduate and resident levels, in addition to working with trainees in adjacent fields like clinical radiation oncology and medical dosimetry.
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Teaching:
RAD-003: Radiation Therapy (W26)