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ERIL Research, Inc.
Eric R. Benton recently joined the Radiation Dosimetry Laboratory at Oklahoma State University. Benton received his undergraduate degree in Physics and Mathematics from the University of San Francisco (USF) in 1989 and his PhD in Experimental Physics from University College Dublin and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland, in 2004. His doctoral research was on radiation dosimetry of astronauts in low-Earth orbit and air crews at aircraft altitudes.
In 1989, Benton began as a research physicist at Eril Research, Inc., a small, start-up research company in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1999, he became Vice-President of the company and took over daily operations.
Benton moved Eril Research, Inc. to Stillwater, OK in 2005, where he also took a position as an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Physics at Oklahoma State University. In 2006, he was made a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Physics at OSU. Benton is currently an acting Co-Editor in Chief of the scientific journal Radiation Measurements.
Eric Benton is considered an expert in the field of Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors and, together with Japanese colleagues, carried out pioneering work on the analysis of nuclear track detectors using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). He is now using AFM to detect extremely short-range secondary particles produced in nuclear collisions between protons and heavy nuclei in proton beams used for cancer therapy.
In his capacity as Vice President and senior scientist at Eril Research, Inc., Benton has served as Principal Investigator and Program Manager on a number of large radiation experiments aboard manned spacecraft, including the Russian Mir Orbital Station, the NASA Space Shuttles, and the International Space Station, as well as on aircraft and high-altitude balloons. He has carried out research at a number of ground-based accelerator facilities in Japan, Europe, and in the US.
He is currently the Deputy Project Coordinator of the ICCHIBAN collaboration, an international effort to intercompare and calibrate space radiation dosimeters used aboard manned spacecraft using high energy proton and heavy ion beams at particle accelerators in Japan and the U.S. www.nirs.go.jp/ENG/rd/1ban/
Benton’s most recent work has focused on developing and characterizing novel multifunctional materials for use as space radiation shielding aboard future human exploration spacecraft for the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
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