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Corso di Fisica II per Ingegneria Clinica
Le lezioni del corso inizieranno lunedi' 23 Settembre 2024, ore 8, aula 14 , via A.Scarpa 16
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Curriculum
CURRENT POSITION Full professor
RESEARCH TOPICS / EXPERIENCES ▪ (2010-now) Radiation physics applied to medicine/ Development of dose and beam monitoring devices for proton & carbon radiotherapy
▪ (2020-now) Particle physics applied to medicine / development of beam monitor device for FLASH Very High Energy Electron radiotherapy
▪ (2020-now) Particle physics applied to medicine / Development of Treatment Planning System for FLASH Very High Energy Electrons radiotherapy
▪ (2013-now) Nuclear physics applied to medicine / Development of Monte Carlo software using GPU technology for the dose evaluation in proton & carbon radiotherapy
▪ (2020-now) Nuclear physics applied to medicine / Development of a Treatment Planning System software using GPU technology fot IORT treatment
▪ (1998-2009) Particle Physics/ Quantum correlation and CP symmetry violation in a K-anti K system
▪ (1987-2000) Astroparticle Physics/ Study of the Cosmic Ray Flux and Composition
SCIENTIFIC QUALIFICATION (Scopus) ▪ H-index: ▪ 51
▪ No. publications: ▪ 383
▪ No. citations: ▪ 9576
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1992 Visiting Researcher at California Institute of Technology
1987-1989 Research grant of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare at Frascati National Laboratory
1987 Degree in Elementary Particle Physics: 110/110 cum laude at Rome University "La Sapienza”
WORK EXPERIENCE
since 2019 Full professor : Department S.B.A.I., Universita’ di Roma ”Sapienza”
2010-2019 Associate professor at Department S.B.A.I., Universita’ di Roma ”Sapienza”
1999-2010 Associate professor at Energetics Department of Rome University “La Sapienza”
1992-1999 Permanent Researcher at Energetics Department of Rome University "La Sapienza”
1990-1992 Permanent Researcher at Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare
MAIN ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
2019 - now Spokeperson of the International Biophysics Collaboration (more than 200 researchers from 20 Countries)
2018-2021 PI of the Flagship Project (Progetto Premiale) of the MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research) for the Centro Fermi Research Institute: “SPARE: Space Radiation Shielding
2016-2021 Spokesperson of the FOOT (FragmentatiOn Of Target) international collaboration (France, Germany, Italy, Japan)
2016-2020 Coordinator of the Working Package 5 “Charged detector for Imaging in Particle Therapy” of the European Nuclear Science and Applications Research (ENSAR-2) - MediNet project.
2014-2016 Principal Investigator (PI) of the NCS@HIT experiment at Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center (HIT) funded by the Union of Light Ion Centers in Europe (ULICE) Program for the study of the beam fragmentation in Particle Therapy
2012-2015 PI of the Flagship Project (Progetto Premiale) of the MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research) for the Centro Fermi Research Institute: “Multiple source, real-time Imaging for Hadrontherapy”
2012-2015 PI at “La Sapienza” University of Rome of the PRIN project (Research Project of National Relevance) INSIDE: “Innovative Solution of Imaging and Dosimetry in Hadrontherapy”
2012-2016 Roma section coordinator of of the INFN project RDH (R&D in Hadrontherapy)
2010-2015 Spokesperson of the FIRST-S361 (Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy) international collaboration at GSI laboratory (Darmstadt, Germany)
Frascati Laboratory coordinator of the INFN project TPS (Treatment Planning System for hadrontherapy)
2006-2009 PI at “La Sapienza” University of Rome of the PRIN project on “Read-out optimization and DAQ electronics development of a scintillating fiber tracking calorimeter”
SERVICE TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
2022-now Member of the Technical Scientific Committee for the research in “Health in Space, Biotechnology and Microgravity” of Italia Space Agency
2022 - now Director of the Specialty School of Medical Physics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza
2019-now Chair of the User selection Panel of the Beam Test Facility (BTF) of Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF)
2019 - 2022 Deputy Director of the Specialty School of Medical Physics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza
2017-now Referee for DFG (German Research Foundation), KWF (Dutch Cancer Society)
2017 Member of Committee for the assignment of the INFN post-doc fellowships for foreigners
2014-now MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research): VQR (Research Evaluation) 2004-2010, VQR 2011-2014, PRIN and FIRB (Futuro In Ricerca) research project, CIVR (Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca), FARE (Framework per l’Attrazione e il Rafforzamento della Ricerca) research projects of MIUR.
2013-now Ph.D. School in Accelerator Physics at Rome University “La Sapienza”
2012 - now Reviewer of International Scientific Journals : Scientific Reports, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Physica Medica, Medical Physics, Journal of Radiation Research, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, Translational Cancer Research, Frontiers in Oncology, Journal of Radiation Oncology, Advances in Physics, Transaction of Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences
2015-now Member of Specialization School in Medical Physics at Rome University “La Sapienza”
2012-2014 Member of Users Committee of Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS)
2010-2014 Member of the Scientific Committee of FLUKA (CERN-INFN) international collaboration
2006-2009 Member of Panel for TARI (Transnational Access to Research Infrastracture) funds assignment of the European Network of Underground Laboratories
2003-2009 Member of panel for TARI funds assignment of Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) of INFN
2001-2007 Member of Scientific Committee of Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of INFN
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023-now Medical Application of Physics
1995-2022 General Physics II (Electromagnetism), General Physics I (Mechanics and Thermodynamics), Laboratory of Physics, Modern Physics, Radioprotection, Radiation Physics applied to Medicine.
2021-now Advanced Radiotherapy techniques at Specialty School in Medical Physics
2000-now Supervisor of more than 40 master thesis in the faculty of Engineering and of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Science of the Rome University "Sapienza".
2000-now Supervisor of 11 Ph.D. thesis of University of Rome "Sapienza", of University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and University "ROMA 3"
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCES
2014 Patent about “Intraoperative detection of tumor residues using b-radiation and corresponding probes, N.PCT/IT2014/000025
2022 Patent requested: “Organic scintillators”, request number 102022000002996
2023 Patent requested:”DISPOSITIVO PER IL TRATTAMENTO RADIOTERAPICO” , request number 102021000021740
HONOURS, AWARDS, MEMBERSHIPS, OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
1990-now Associate of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare…..
2012-2020 Associate of Centro Fermi Research Institute