Giuseppe Palma was born in Galatina (LE) on 13th of November 1982.

He got the Bachelor of Science degree in Physics cum laude in 2003 (final thesis on high-energy cosmic rays) and the Master of Science degree in Theoretical Physics cum laude in 2005 (final thesis on gamma-ray bursts) at the University of Pise.

In 2005 he got the Diploma in Sciences cum laude at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pise (final thesis on the corrugational instabilities of hyper-relativistic shocks from hypernova models).

In 2010 he got the Ph.D. in Physics cum laude at the Scuola Normale Superiore (final thesis on the simulation of high Lorentz-factor astrophysical flows).

He was visiting student at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris in 2004 and at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2007.

From 2008 to 2010 he joined in the MRI Sequence Development section of a ministerial research project.

From 2010 to 2011 he worked for Esaote S.p.A. in the R&D division as MRI Sequence Designer.

From 2011 he is Researcher at the Institute of Biostructure and Bioimaging (IBB) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR).

His main research interests include radiation therapy toxicity modelling, quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI), image processing and analysis.

In 2014 he contributed to first unveil the text of two cyphered missives of the Renaissance duchess Lucrezia Borgia.

In 2018 he co-founded a start-up company for e-care platforms that has been acknowledged as corporate spin-off of the Italian National Research Council.

He is the primary inventor of an international patent on qMRI, and co-authored one book and more than 70 papers on astrophysics, medical physics, cryptography and Medieval historiography. He is Associate Editor of Physica Medica, European Journal of Medical Physics, and Review Editor of Frontiers in Radiology.