Amèlia Jansen van Vuuren obtained her MSc in Medical Bioscience from the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town, South Africa, in 2022, in conjunction with National Research Foundation (NRF)-iThemba Laboratory of Accelerator Based Sciences (LABS), Cape Town, South Africa. Her project focused on a unique South African radiobiology project entitled “Tumour Suppression and Subdual of Cancer (TUSSC) in elephants: An in vitro study to shed light on Peto’s Paradox”. During this period, she joined the iThemba LABS/GET_INvolved Programme for a five-month research stay at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt, Germany. In 2023, she undertook a four-month internship hosted by NRF-iThemba LABS and funded by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP). She is now an alumni member of the IAEA MSCFP. Amèlia is currently employed by GSI for a PhD in the Space Radiation Biology Group in conjunction with Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.