RadCon – Dr. Mauritius Hiller

Publications & Academic Activities

Peer‑Reviewed Journal Articles

  1. Hiller M, Hertel N, Veinot K, Influence of neutron cross-section resonances on organ/tissue equivalent and effective dose coefficients for the ICRP voxel phantoms. Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, 2024. doi:10.1007/s00411-023-01058-9
  2. Woda C, Hiller M, Ademola J, Bugrov N, Degteva M, Napier B Luminescence dosimetry for evaluation of external exposure in Metlino, upper Techa River valley, Southern Urals, Russia: analysis of new results. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 193, 110618, 2023. doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2022.110618
  3. Hiller M, Woda C, Degteva M, Bougrov N, Shishkina E, Pryakhin E, Ivanov O External Dose Reconstruction at the Shore of the Metlinsky Pond in the Former Village of Metlino (Techa River, Russia) Based on Environmental Surveys, Luminescence Measurements and Ra- diation Transport Modelling. Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, 61, 87-109, 2022. doi:10.1007/s00411-021-00953-3
  4. Hertel N, Veinot K, Hiller M, Eckerman K, Neutron Dose Coefficients for the Lens of the Eye.Journal of Radiological Protection, 41, 628-653, 2021. doi:10.1088/1361-6498/abfff5
  5. Ulanovsky A, Hiller M, Woda C, Absorbed Doses in Bricks and TL-dosimeters Based on Al2O3:C due to Environmental Radiation Sources. Radiation Measurements, 140, 106458, 2021. doi:10.1016/j.radmeas.2020.106458
  6. Veinot K, Hertel N, Hiller M, Eckerman K, Neutron dose coefficients for local skin. Journal of Radiological Protection, 40(2), 554-582, 2020. doi:10.1088/1361-6498/ab805e
  7. Woda C, Hiller M, Ulanovski A, Bugrov N, Degteva M, Mokrov Y, Rovny S, Ivanov O, Ro- manov S, Tschiersch J, Luminescence Dosimetry for Evaluation of the External Exposure in Metlino, Upper Techa River Valley, due to the Shore of the Metlinsky Pond: A Feasibility Study. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 214-215, 106152, 2020. doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2019.106152
  8. Hiller M, Leggett R, A biokinetic model for trivalent or hexavalent chromium in adult humans. Journal of Radiological Protection, 40: 19-39, 2020. doi:10.1088/1361-6498/ab4286
  9. Nogueira P, Hiller M, Aust M-O, Monte Carlo Simulation of the Absorbed Fraction to Fish Eye Lens. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 199–200: 7–15, 2019. doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2018.12.021
  10. Dewji S, Bales K, Griffin K, Lee C, Hiller M Age-Dependent Comparison of Monoenergetic Photon Organ and Effective Dose Coefficients for Pediatric Stylized and Voxel Phantoms Sub- merged in Air. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 63 (17): 175019, 2018. doi:10.1088/1361- 6560/aad64e
  11. Veinot K, Dewji S, Hiller M, Eckerman K, Easterly C, Organ and Effective Dose Rate Co- efficients for Submersion Exposure in Occupational Settings. Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, 56 (4): 453-462, 2017. doi:10.1007/s00411-017-0705-6
  12. Dewji S, Reed L, Hiller M, Comparison of Photon Organ and Effective Dose Coefficients for Pimal Stylized Phantom in Bent Positions in Standard Irradiation Geometries. Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, 56 (3): 277-291, 2017. doi:10.1007/s00411-017-0698-1
  13. Veinot K, Bellamy M, Eckerman K, Hiller M, Dewji S, Easterly C, Hertel N, Leggett R, Manger R, Effective Dose Rate Coefficients for Exposure to Contaminated Soil. Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, 56 (3): 255-267, 2017. doi:10.1007/s00411-017-0692-7
  14. Hiller M, Woda C, Bugrov N, Degteva M, Ivanov O, Ulanovsky A, Romanov S, External Dose Reconstruction for the Former Village of Metlino (Techa River, Russia) Based on Environmental Surveys, Luminescence Measurements and Radiation Transport Modelling. Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, 56 (2): 139-159, 2017. doi:10.1007/s00411-017-0688-3
  15. Hiller M, Dewji S, Comparison of Monoenergetic Photon Organ Dose Rate Coefficients for the Female Stylized and Voxel Phantoms Submerged in Air. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 175 (3): 336-343, 2017. doi:10.1093/rpd/ncw354
  16. Veinot K, Eckerman K, Hertel N, Hiller M, Organ and Effective Dose Coefficients for Cranial and Caudal Irradiation Geometries: Neutrons. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 175 (1): 26-30, 2017. doi:10.1093/rpd/ncw262
  17. Hiller M, Veinot K, Easterly C, Hertel N, Eckerman K, Bellamy B, Reducing Statistical Uncer- tainties in Simulated Organ Doses of Phantoms Immersed in Water. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 174 (4): 439-448, 2017. doi:10.1093/rpd/ncw240
  18. Ören Ü, Hiller M, Andersson M, IDACstar: A MCNP Application to Perform Realistic Dose Estimations from Internal or External Contamination of Radiopharmaceuticals. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 174 (3): 406-411, 2017. doi:10.1093/rpd/ncw221
  19. Bellamy M, Veinot K, Hiller M, Dewji S, Eckerman K, Easterly C, Hertel N, Leggett R, Manger R, Effective Dose Rate Coefficients for Immersions in Radioactive Air and Water. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 174 (2): 275-286, 2017. doi:10.1093/rpd/ncw103
  20. Bellamy M, Hiller M, Dewji S, Veinot K, Leggett R, Easterly C, Eckerman K, Hertel N, Com- parison of Monoenergetic Photon Organ Dose Rate Coefficients for Stylized and Voxel Phan- toms Submerged in Air. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 172 (4): 367-374, 2016. doi:10.1093/rpd/ncv548
  21. Discher M, Hiller M, Woda C, MCNP Simulations of a Glass Display Used in a Mobile Phone as an Accident Dosimeter. Radiation Measurements 75: 21-28, 2015. doi:10.1016/j.radmeas.2015.02.013

Reports

  1. Consultant to the ICRU Report Committee for ICRU Report 95 – Operational Quantities for External Radiation Exposure. Journal of the ICRU 20(1), 2020.
  2. Martinez N, Easterly C, Eckerman K, Hiller M, Jokisch D, Samuels C, Ward R, Leggett R Quality Assurance Plan for Federal Guidance Report 16. ORNL/TM, 2020.
  3. Bellamy M, Dewji S, Leggett R, Hiller M, Veinot K, Manger R, Eckerman K, Ryman J, Easterly C, Hertel N, Stewart D, Federal Guidance Report No. 15: External Exposure to Radionuclides in Air, Water, and Soil. EPA-402/R19/002, United States Environment Protection Agency, 2019.
  4. Dewji S, Hiller M, Bellamy M, Akkurt H, Wiarda D, Kora G, Eckerman K, Griffin K, PIMAL: Phantom with Moving Arms and Legs, Version 4.1.0. U.S. NRC, NUREG/CR-7243, 2017.
  5. Bellamy M, Akkurt H, Wiarda D, Dewji S, Hiller M, Kora G, Eckerman K, Griffin K, Saba M, Sherbini S, PIMAL: Phantoms wIth Moving Arms and Legs, Version 4.0, Manual. U.S. NRC, NUREG, 2016.
  6. Bellamy M, Bolch W, Dewji S, Eckerman K, Easterly C, Godwin W, Hertel N, Hiller M, Jokish D, Leggett R, Schwahn S, Schwarz B, Scofield P, Veinot K, Ward R, Technical Basis for Derivation of Dose Coefficients for Use in Radiation Protection. ORNL/TM-2015/597, 2015.

Invited Talks

  1. Hiller M, Dose Reconstruction at the Example of the Techa River Studies. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, April 2019.
  2. Hiller M, Future Challenges in Computational Radiation Dosimetry – How Precise Do We Need to Get? 61st Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society, Spokane, WA, USA, July 2016.
  3. Hiller M, Dose Reconstruction in Radioactively Contaminated Techa River Region. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, February 2016.

Conference Presentations

  1. Semioshkina N, Voigt G, Hiller M, Data Base of Radioecological Parameters for Arid Environments, 8th International Symposium on the System of Radiological Protection, AhbuDabi, UAE, October, 2025.     
  2. Hiller M, Semioshkina N, Voigt G, Data Base of Radioecological Parameters for Arid    Environments, 8th International Conference on Environmental Radioactivity, Krakow, Poland, September, 2025.
  3. Rombauer S, Hiller M, Fission-Matrix Acceleration in Burn-Up Calculations using MCNP6.3,2025 MCNP Users Symposium, Los Alamos, NM, USA, July, 2025.
  4. Kaiser M, Hiller M Korrosionsmechanismen in thermochemischen Prozessen – Grundlagen und Praxisbeispiele, 24th Breiding Tagung, Bad Hersfeld, März, 2025.
  5. Semioshkina N, Voigt G, Hiller M, Transfer of radionuclides from soil to Plants: Database for Radiological Impact Assessments in arid environment, 6th International Conference on Radioecology & Environmental Radioactivity, Marseille, France, November 2024.
  6. Hiller M, Semioschkina N, Voigt G, Raj P, Almakrani M, Foulon F, Padiyath N, Radioecology in Arid Countries: Database and Missing Parameters, 16th IRPA Congress, Health Physics Society, 69th Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, Juli 2024.
  7. Hiller M, Woda C Review of Efforts in the Validation of the Techa River Dosimetry System for the Location of Metlino. Health Physics Society, 68th Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD, USA, July 2023.
  8. Semioshkina N, Voigt G, Fiedler I, Hiller M Radioecology under arid conditions. Health Physics Society, 68th Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD, USA, July 2023.
  9. Andersson M, Hiller M, Ören Ü, Bernhardsson C, Mattsson S Estimation of external exposure from a 137Cs-deposition on the ground: Influence of type of humanlike reference phantoms used and depth penetration of 137Cs in soil. Nordic Society for Radiation Protection, Malmö, Sweden, June 2023.
  10. Hiller M, Leggett R, A Novel Biokinetic Model for Chromium and its Intend for Health Physics Applications. Health Physics Society, 67th Annual Meeting, Spokane, WA, USA, July 2022.
  11. Hiller M, Woda C, Dose reconstruction in the village of Metlino, Techa River region, South- ern Urals, Russia. Health Physics Society, 67th Annual Meeting, Spokane, WA, USA, July 2022.
  12. Veinot K, Hertel N, Hiller M, Eckerman K, Charged Particle Contributions to Local Skin Dose from Neutron Irradiations. Health Physics Society, 67th Annual Meeting, Spokane, WA, USA, July 2022.
  13. Hertel N, Hiller M, Veinot K, Neutron Dose Coefficients and Resonances: Do They Really Matter? 2022 IRPA North American Regional Congress, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, February 2022.
  14. * Dalak S, Mendleski R, Hiller M, Golden A, Dewji S, Kalinowski A, TLD Sensitivity Analysis for Improvement of Dose Reconstructions for the Department of Energy Radiation Exposure Monitoring System. Health Physics Society, 66th Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA, July 2021.
  15. Hiller M, Hendricks J, Guidance for the MCNP DXTRAN Feature. Radiation Protection and Shielding Division of the American Nuclear Society, 20th Topical Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, USA, August 2018.
  16. * Dewji S, Bales K, Griffin K, Lee C, Hiller M, Comparison of Monoenergetic Photon Organ Dose Rate Coefficients for Male and Female Pediatric Stylized and Voxel Phantoms Sub- merged in Air. Health Physics Society, 63rd Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH, USA, July 2018.
  17. Dewji S, Sanchez E, Reed L, Bales K, Green M, Hiller M, Oxenberg T, PIMAL: A GUI- Driven Software Package to Conduct Radiation Dose Estimation Using Realistic Postures. 6th International Workshop on Computational Human Phantoms, Annapolis, MD, USA, August 2017.
  18. Hiller M, Woda C, Bougrov N, Degteva M, Ulanovsky A, Ivanov O, On the External Dose Reconstruction in the Former Village of Metlino, Techa River Region, Southern Urals, Russia. Health Physics Society, 62nd Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC, USA, July 2017.
  19. Dewji S, Reed L, Hiller M, Computation of Photon Effective Dose Coefficients for PIMAL Stylized Phantoms in Upright and Bent Positions in Standard Irradiation Geometries. Health Physics Society, 62nd Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC, USA, July 2017.
  20. Veinot, Dewji S, Hiller M, Eckerman K, Easterly C, Enhanced Monte Carlo Simulation of the Voxel Phantom Lattice Submersed in a Contaminated Air Environment. 2017 ANS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2017.
  21. Dewji S, Hiller M, Hertel N, Comparison of Neutron Organ Doses for PIMAL Stylized Phan- tom in Upright and Bent Positions for Standard Irradiation Geometries. Neutron and Ion Dosimetry Symposium, Neudos-13, Kraków, Poland, May 2017.
  22. Veinot K, Dewji S, Hiller M, Eckerman K, Easterly C, Hertel N, Room Submersion Cal- culations of Noble Gas Dose Rate Coefficients. Health Physics Society Midyear Meeting, Bathesda, MD, USA, January 2017.
  23. Dewji S, Hiller M, Hertel N, Eckerman K, Radiological Toolbox 3.0.0. Health Physics Society Midyear Meeting, Bathesda, MD, USA, January 2017.
  24. Reed L, Dewji S, Hiller M, Comparison of Organ Doses for PIMAL Stylized Phantoms in Up- right and Bent Positions for Various Irradiation Geometries. Health Physics Society Midyear Meeting, Bathesda, MD, USA, January 2017.
  25. * Rathbun M, Hiller M, MCNP Calculation Speed Benchmark for Computational Phantoms. ANS Winter Meeting, Student Poster Session, Las Vegas, NV, USA, November 2016.
  26. Hiller M, Veinot K, Eckerman K, Hertel N, Miller T, Organ and Effective Dose Coefficients for Cranial and Caudal Irradiation Geometries: Neutrons. 13th International Conference on Radiation Shielding (ICRS-13) and 19th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division of the American Nuclear Society, Paris, France, October 2016.
  27. Hiller M, Hertel N, Miller T, Reduced Variance using ADVANTG in Monte Carlo Calculations of Dose Coefficients to Stylized- and Voxel Phantoms. 13th International Conference on Radiation Shielding (ICRS-13) and 19th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division of the American Nuclear Society, Paris, France, October 2016.
  28. * Hiller M, Veinot K, Eckerman K, Hertel N, Cranial and Caudal Dose Coefficients for Photons and Neutrons Up to 10 GeV. Radiation Protection Week, Oxford, UK, September 2016.
  29. * Dewji S, Reed L, Hiller M, Comparison of Organ Doses for PIMAL Stylized Phantoms in Upright and Bent Positions for Standard Irradiation Geometries. Radiation Protection Week, Oxford, UK, September 2016.
  30. * Andersson M, Schwarz R, Hiller M, 3D-Grapical Representation of Source Geometries in Lattice Structures using the Monte Carlo Code MCNP. Radiation Protection Week, Oxford, UK, September 2016.
  31. * Andersson M, Hiller M, IDAC Star – A Standalone Program to Easy Create Monte Carlo Voxel Simulated Customized Dose Estimations. Annual Conference of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2016.
  32. Hiller M, Bellamy B, Veinot K, Easterly C, Hertel N, Eckerman K, Application of the Reci- procity Theory to Calculate Organ Doses in Phantoms Immersed in Water. 47th Annual Meeting on Nuclear Technology, Hamburg, Germany, May 2016.
  33. * Bellamy M, Veinot K, Hiller M, Dewji S, Eckerman K, Easterly C, Hertel N, Leggett R, Comparison of Federal Guidance Reports 12 and 15: External Exposure to Radionuclides in Soil, Air, and Water. 14th Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2016.
  34. * Dewji S, Hiller M, Hertel N, Sherbini S, Saba M, PIMAL: A GUI-Driven Software Package to Conduct Radiation Dose Assessments Using Realistic Phantom Postures. 14th Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2016.
  35. * Veinot K, Dewji S, Bellamy M, Eckerman K, Hertel N, Hiller M, Room Submersion Calcu- lations of Noble Gas Dose Rate Coefficients. 14th Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2016.
  36. Hiller M, Phantom with Movable Arms and Legs and the MCNP Models Used at the Center for Radiation Protection. MCNP User Group Meeting at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, April 2016.
  37. Hiller M, Radiation Protection Software Developed at ORNL’s CPRK. James E. Turner Back- to-School Lecture Series in Nuclear Science and Health Physics, Knoxville, TN, USA, February 2016.
  38. Hiller M, Bellamy B, Dewji S, Kora G, Hertel N, Eckerman K, Sherbini S, Saba M, Enhance- ments to the Phantom wIth Moving Arms and Legs Software (PIMAL 4.0). Health Physics Society Midyear Meeting, Austin, TX, USA, February 2016.
  39. Bellamy B, Hiller M, Dewji S, Veinot K, Leggett R, Eckerman K, Easterly C, Hertel N, Compar- ison of Monoenergetic Photon Organ Dose Rate Coefficients for Stylized and Voxel Phantoms Submerged in Air. Health Physics Society Midyear Meeting, Austin, TX, USA, February 2016.
  40. Hiller M Reconstruction of Historic Doses in a Radioactively Contaminated Area. Meeting of the East Tennessee Chapter of the HPS, Oak Ridge, TN, June 2015.
  41. Schwarz R, Kum O, Licea A, Hiller M, Variance Reduction Applications using Visual MCNP. ANS MC2015 – Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, TN, USA, April 2015.
  42. Hiller M, Woda C, Bougrov N, Degteva M, Ivanov O, Romanov S, Dose Reconstruction in the Former Village of Metlino in the Contaminated Techa River Region, Southern Urals, Russia. 18th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division of the American Nuclear Society, Knoxville, TN, USA, September 2014.
  43. * Woda C, Hiller M, Bougrov N, Degteva M, Ivanov O, Romanov S, Luminescence Dosime- try in the Contaminated Former Settlement of Metlino, Southern Urals, Russia. 14th In- ternational Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating, Montreal, Canada, July 2014.
  44. Woda C, Hiller M, Bougrov N, Fiedler I, Shiskina E, Degteva M, Romanov S, Ivanov O, Validation of TRDS-2009 and Gaseous Releases Using Luminescence Methods. 7th SOLO Project meeting, Munich, Germany, March 2014.
  45. * Hiller M, Woda C, Ulanovsky A, Paretzke H, Dose reconstruction in radioactively contam- inated areas using radiation transport calculations. Advanced WE-Heraeus Physics School on Ionizing Radiation and Protection of Man, Bad Honnef, Germany, August 2012.

Theses

  1. Hiller M, Dose Reconstruction in Radioactively Contaminated Areas Based on Radiation Transport Calculations and Measurements. Doctoral Thesis in Physics at Technischen Uni- versität München, 2015.
  2. Hiller M, Engineering of Membrane Pore Formers Using DNA Origami. Master Thesis in Engineering Physics at Technischen Universität München, 2011.
  3. Hiller M, Microscopic Analysis of Microtubules and Spastin. Bachelor Thesis in Engineer- ing Physics at Technischen Universität München, 2009.