Temporary Staff and Ph.D. Students

 

 Lorenzo Campana  Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.   
 
 

After studying for my master degree in particle physics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", I graduated in October 2020 with a thesis on the WIDMAPP experiment. Currently, I am attending the specialization school in medical physics at the Policlinico Umberto I of Rome.

 

Angelica De Gregorio  Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.

  
 
  I graduated in Physics at Rome University "La Sapienza” in 2018. Then I have studied Particle Physics in the same university. Currently I am working on my Master thesis with the ARPG “Applied Radiation Physics Group”. My thesis is focused on FOOT experiment and in particular on the trigger optimization and cross section measurement. Now I am a PhD student in Accelerator Physics at "La Sapienza" University.

 

 

Marta Fischetti Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.

    
 
I studied Biomedical Engineering at Rome University “La Sapienza" and I graduated in 2017. For my thesis I worked within the CHIRONE group and I have collaborated to the development of a novel technique of radio guided surgery that uses beta minus emitters. I have done my PhD in Rome University “La Sapienza”; my research activity was focused on the development of FRED (a fast-MC tool) and in particular on the implementation of the profiler reconstruction algorithm within Fred. Now I am a PostDoc in the ARPG group.
 

 

Gaia Franciosini Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.

     
 
I studied particle physics at Rome University "La Sapienza" and I graduated in 2019. I developed my Master thesis in cooperation with the Applied Radiation Physics Group. It was focused on the time of flight measurements at the FOOT experiment and on the detector characterization. Currently, my research activity, as a Ph.D. student, is focused on the electromagnetic FRED code, a fast Monte Carlo tool that runs on GPU for treatment planning. My goal is to extend this software, already used for protons at several clinical centers in Europe, to the Intra Operative Radio Therapy and to the Flash Therapy.

 

Carlo Mancini Terracciano Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.  

     
 
I graduated at Rome University “Sapienza" in 2011 in particle physics. I got the Ph.D in "Roma Tre” University in 2015. I worked as a Fellow at CERN within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN “ENTERVISION” on the development and benchmarking of Carbon ion breakup models in the energy range relevant for hadrontherapy. I am currently working on the development of a probe to help surgeons to perform a complete tumour resection using beta minus radio tracers.

 

Riccardo Mirabelli Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.

    
 
I joined the ARPG group in March 2016 and during my Master thesis in particle physics I worked on the characterization of a prototype for the MONDO project, whose main goal is to develop a tracking detector targeting fast and ultra-fast secondary neutrons. The information obtained from my work will be used to design the final device.

During my Ph.D in Rome University "Sapienza" I continue my research work in the MONDO collaboration. Now as a PostDoc, I am working on the development of a new Wearable Individual Dose Monitoring Apparatus (WIDMApp) for the Dose Monitoring in Molecular Radiotherapy.  

 

 

Annalisa Muscato  Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.

    
 

I graduated in Physics at the department of physics “Ettore Majorana” in Catania in 2019.  I’m studying  Physics of Biosystems at “Sapienza”, University of Rome;  My thesis was focused on trying to use Flash Therapy treatment for the care of deep tumors; specifically, we tried to validate such treatment using electrons of high energy (VHEE) and protons. Currently, I am attending the specialization school in medical physics at the Policlinico Umberto I of Rome.

 

 

Elena Solfaroli Camillocci Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.

    
 

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".

 

Antonio Trigilio Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.

    
 

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.