Current position

Research Scientist, Institute for Biostructure and Bioimages (IBB), National Council of Research (CNR), Italy (2001-present)

Adjunct Professor, University Federico II Napoli, Italy (2013-present)

Past position

Consultant Medical Physicist, University Hospital of Naples, Italy (2004-2020)

Educations and academic degrees

2003: Specialist in Medical Physics. Three-years Post-Graduate School in Medical Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza". Thesis: Biodosimetry in breast cancer patients.

1997: Laurea Degree in Physics (cum laude) - University of Naples "Federico II" Thesis: The effect of track structure on the induction of chromosomal aberrations in murine cells.

Awards and achievements

2017: Award of the National Scientific Qualification (art.16 of the law 30 December 2010, n.240) from the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) as Full Professor in Italian Universities (Applied Physics)

2013: Award of the National Scientific Qualification (art.16 of the law 30 December 2010, n.240) from the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) as Associate Professor in Italian Universities (Applied Physics)

Grants and clinical trials

2017-2019 INFN project CSN V: Modeling and Verification for Ion beam Treatment planning (MoVeIT). WP2 leader.

2014 “Short-term mobility” grant from Italian National Research Council. Visiting scientist  at Department of Medical Physics Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, USA). Research program: Complication probabilities models for radiation-induced lung and heart toxicities in Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivors. Application of statistical learning methods.

2012-2016 Project FIRB from Italian Ministry for Education and Research (MIUR) RBFR10Q0PT  “DROPS” (Principal Investigator) (2012-2016).

2012-2016 POR Campania 2012 (n. 124 del 24 luglio 2013). Decorrenza 06/ 2013

2011 Project FIRB from Italian Ministry for Education and Research (MIUR) RBNE08YFN3 “MERIT” (2011)

2006-2012 Equal Estro EGF 102988 Phase III Head and Neck Clinical Trial conducted by GlaxoSmithKline (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT00424255, Site number: 32110).

2002-2016 Project FIRB from Italian Ministry for Education and Research (MIUR) RBNE015AKZ

Scientific journal involvements

 2018 –current, Editorial Board Member for Scientific Report, Nature Research

2019-current, Associate Editors for Physica Medica, European Journal of Medical physics, Elsevier

Reviewer for several international radiotherapy and medical physics journals including Radiotherapy and Oncology, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, Radiation Oncology , Acta Oncologica, The British Journal of Radiology, Physica Medica, PlosOne, Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik.

Professional membership & associations:

ESTRO member, ASTRO Member, ILROG Council Member

Research areas:

As Medical Physicist and Research Scientist, my research activity has constantly been focused on the Physics of Radiation Oncology.

Main topics of expertise are:

- external beam radiotherapy, including intensity-modulated and particle beam radiotherapy;

- ionizing radiation dosimetry;

- modelling radiation induced normal tissue effects.

My current research interest is addressed in clinical radiobiology, quantitative analyses and modelling radiation induced normal tissue effects developing predictive models, which adopt advanced statistical modelling methods. Specifically, the most recent research activity has been dedicated to image based modelling approaches, incorporating machine-learning methods, for clinical radiobiological studies and for radiation therapy optimization.