Tomas Kron was born and educated in Germany. After his PhD he migrated to Australia in 1989 where he commenced his career in radiotherapy physics. From 2001 to 2005 he moved to Canada where he worked at the London Regional Cancer Centre on the commissioning of one of the first helical tomotherapy units. In 2005, Tomas became principal research physicist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia where he now is Director of Physical Sciences.

Tomas has an interest in education of medical physicists, dosimetry of ionising radiation, image guidance and clinical trials demonstrated by about 100 invited conference presentations and more than 330 papers in refereed journals.

Tomas is on the editorial board of several scientific journals including Radiother. Oncol. and serves as associate editor for Radiat. Meas. and Clin. Oncol (RCR). He is a regular consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and has been president of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (2009-10). He has organised two major conferences (EPSM 2000 in Newcastle and the 17th International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy (ICCR) in Melbourne, May 2013. He has also been chair of the Awards and Honours Committee of the International Organization of Medical Physics and served for six years as Chief Examiner for the International Medical Physics Certification Board. In 2014 Tomas was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to medicine, research and education.