Eva Bezak

Eva Bezak is a medical physicist and researcher, who was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2025. She is a researcher in cancer therapy and medical innovation, modelling software as well as new pharmaceuticals to enhance therapies for cancer. She has served on various medical physics organisations and was president of the International Organisation for Medical Physics.

Education and early life Bezak wanted to be a scientist from an early age, including a paleontologist, digging for dinosaur bones. She started studying physics, and later enrolled in nuclear physics at university. She obtained a Bachelor and Masters of Philosophy, and had two children. When her youngest child was three months old, she then enrolled in further study, a Masters of Medical Physics, and then a PhD in nuclear physics, graduating from her PhD with two children under five years. Bezak was the first female president of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM). working with providers of nuclear medicine and radiation oncology in the Asia-Pacific regions, partnering with both industry and medical stakeholders. She was also the President of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine, and Vice President of the Australian Foundation of Medical Physics.

Bezak is also an advocate of women in STEM, and particularly supporting diversity and inclusion around medical research careers. Forster, J. C., Harriss-Phillips, W. M., Douglass, M. J., & Bezak, E. (2017). A review of the development of tumor vasculature and its effects on the tumor microenvironment. Hypoxia, 5, 21–32. https://doi.org/10.2147/HP.S133231. James Murray, Hunter Bennett, Eva Bezak, Rebecca Perry, The role of exercise in the prevention of cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: systematic review, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, Volume 29, Issue 3, February 2022, Pages 463–472, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwab006.

Awards and recognition 2025 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering. 2024 - Distinguished Service Award, Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine. 2019 - South Australian Women's Honour Roll.