External Collaborators

Dr. Giuseppe Battistoni

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Short CV: I graduated in Rome in 1977 and I became an INFN staff researcher in 1982. I worked in experiments in particle and nuclear physics at accelerators, in cosmic ray physics and neutrino physics, involving myself in the development of particle detectors and Monte Carlo simulation.Since 2006 my main interest is the application of nuclear and particle physics to medicine, contributing to the research in hadrontherapy. In particular I contributed to the work for new Treatment Planning Systems and to the development of in-vivo monitoring techniques In this respect I am particularly involeved in all the activities concerning range monitoring with gamma rays and charged particles. After the experience in the Inside project I dedicate myself at the work with the Dose Profiler. At present I am involved in the FOOT and MoVE-IT experiments. I also cooperate on the development of Fred fast Montecarlo and to the MONDO activity

Res. Silvia Muraro

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Short CV: My activity is focused on simulation with the FLUKA MC code and data analysis.I worked in cosmic rays and neutrino physics within the ICARUS experiment. By means of the MC simulation, the parameters for the full simulation of the flux of secondary particles in atmosphere were fixed. At a later time I turned to medical application.I worked on the physical database for a hadrontherapy treatment planning system (TPS project).Now, in the framework of the IRPT project, I'm focused on dose monitoring by means of secondary particles from theinteraction of the therapeutic beam with the human tissue. In particular I have been involved in the simulation of the dose profiler for charged partcles and, more recently, on the development of devices for PET in-beam.

INFN Res. Ilaria Mattei

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Short CV: I graduated in 2011 in particle physics at the University of Rome “Sapienza”. In 2011-2014 I was a PhD student in physics at the University of Rome “Roma Tre” and performed the thesis within the ARPG group. I contributed to the development of a dose profile monitor taking part to several experiments using protons and ions beams as Carbon, Helium and Oxygen: LNS (Catania) in 2011, GSI laboratories (Darmstadt) in 2012 and HIT center (Heidelberg) in 2014. During these experiments I learned how to use hardware and the data acquisition chain, but my specialty is data analysis. I have also developed simulations of the last experiment we performed at the HIT center with the Monte Carlo FLUKA code. My analysis activity is continuing in Milan. Now I also work on the FOOT and MoVE-IT experiments.

Res. Yunsheng Dong

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Short CV: I graduated at the University of Milano in April 2017, with a master thesis on the design of a drift chamber for the FOOT experiment and now I am a Ph.D. student in Milano, to continue my research work in FOOT.

Res. Elena Solfaroli Camillocci

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Short CV: I am an experimental physicist working on elementary particles and applied physics. I have many years’ experience in detectors for charged particle identification and tracking, Monte Carlo simulations and data analysis. From 2002 to 2012, I was member of the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN in Geneva (Switzerland). The ATLAS experiment resulted in the observation of the decays of the Higgs boson. I was involved in this experiment since the detector construction and tests, the installation and commissioning at the CERN laboratory and, then, during the data taking and analysis. I studied in details and tested the trigger detectors and the tracking chambers of the ATLAS muon spectrometer for the muon momentum measurement. I was responsible of the ATLAS level-1 muon trigger logic simulation and of the development of the diagnostic tool that provides fast global detector monitoring and detailed description of single muon channel performance (>300 thousand channels). Based on the know-how in the muon detectors and trigger, I contributed to Higgs discovery studying the decay in 4 leptons (H->ZZ*->4l) with first Monte Carlo simulation and then data analysis. My contributions to the ATLAS experiment started with the degree thesis (Sapienza Università di Roma 2002-2003) and the Physics PhD study (Università di Roma Tor Vergata 2003-2007), and continued during two Post-Doc research fellows (Sapienza Università di Roma and INFN 2007-2012). Between 2012 and 2014, I worked at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) as Post-Doc researcher. I am involved in the feasibility study of the radioguided surgery (RGS) technique exploiting β- decays, which is a novel technique for complete tumor resection. I have designed and developed the first intraoperative β- probe prototype, both with Monte Carlo simulation and tests in laboratory, the phantoms and the test procedures specific for the β- based RGS technique validation. Since 2014, I am a temporary researcher in the Dept of physics at the University "La Sapienza".

Res. Micol De Simoni

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Short CV: I studied particle physics at Rome University "La Sapienza" and I graduated in 2017. I developed my master thesis within the ARPG (Applied Radiation Physics Group) group, working on the characterization of a dose profiler monitor for hadrontherapy treatments. I have done an Accelerator Physics PhD in Rome University "La Sapienza" with the thesis "Development of tools for quality control on therapeutic Carbon beams with a fast MC code (FRED)". During my postDoc activity within ARPG I worked on the improvement of ions interactions in FRED, a fast-MC tool for treatment planning and dose verification in hadrontherapy. Now I am based at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and my research activity is focused on advanced methods of range verification with prompt gamma spectroscopy.

Ph Dr. Antonio Trigilio

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Short CV: I studied particle physics at "La Sapienza" University of Rome, graduating in 2020. For my Master's thesis work, I joined the Applied Radiation Physics Group on the MONDO project at SBAI Department, dedicated to the development of a tracker for the secondary neutrons produced during Particle Therapy sessions. My thesis was focused on writing an algorithm for the event reconstruction inside MONDO, measuring the energy resolution, backpointing capability and detection efficiency, with a method of selection for double-elastic scatterings using only hardware parameters and measurable quantities. Now I am a PhD student in Accelerator Physics at "La Sapienza" University. My research activity is dedicated to the field of electron beam monitoring, both in the IORT applications (low energy electrons used to treat superficial tumors) and on studies of the FLASH effect to implement electrons for the treatment of deep seated tumors.

Prof. Adalberto Sciubba

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Short CV: Experimental physicist of "Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering" Department of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" Full professor teaching to bio-engineers Expert on detector development, high complexity electronic systems, coordination of composite teams, particle physics techniques applied to biomedics.

Silvio Morganti

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