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Name
Alberto Del Guerra
Education/training
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
Position Title
Retired Professor of Medical Physics, Department of Physics,
University of Pisa
Former Head, and Director Specialty School in Medical Physics
Former Head of the Research group FIIG (Functional Imaging
and Instrumentation Group), Department of Physics and INFN
3 years Post-doc
Laurea (M.Sc) in Physics
1968-71
1962-68
High Energy Physics
Physics
Appointments
Nov 1,2014-to date Adjunct Professor of Medical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Pisa
Coordinator of the FP7 funded project TRIMAGE (2013-2017)
Nov 1, 1998- to date- Research Associate of INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics), Pisa branch
2001-2014 – Head of the Research Unit of Physics of the Center of excellence AMBISEN of the
University of Pisa
June 1-1999- 2014 - Head and Director, Specialty School in Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Pisa
Nov 1, 1998 –2014- Professor of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pisa
Nov 1, 1998- 2014- Research Group leader (Functional Imaging and Instrumentation Group)
Department of Physics, University of Pisa
1991-1998- Professor of Medical Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Ferrara
1991-1998- Research Group leader, Department of Physics, University of Ferrara
1991-1998- INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics) Research Associate, Ferrara branch
1993-1996- INFM (National Institute of Structure of Matter), Research Associate, Ferrara branch
1987-1991- Professor of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Napoli
1987-1991- Research Group Leader, Department of Physics, University of Napoli
1987-1991- INFN Research Associate, Napoli branch
1991-1991- INFM Research Associate, Napoli branch
1988 (2nd semester) -Visiting Professor at the University of Mogadishu, Somalia
1981-1982 - Visiting Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Division of Physics) and Fulbright Scholar
1975-1987 - Associate Professor of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Pisa
1975-1987 - Research Group leader, Department of Physics, University of Pisa
1972-1975 - Assistant Professor of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Pisa
1972-1987 - INFN Research associate, Pisa branch
1971-1972 - Researcher at INFN, Pisa branch
1968-1971 - Post-doc, Department of Physics, University of Pisa
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Other Academic responsibilities
2000-2014
Faculty member of the PhD School in Applied Physics, Faculty of Science,
University of Pisa
2000- 2104 Faculty member of the Specialty School in Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Pisa
1999- 2014 Faculty member of the Specialty School in Radiology and Radiotherapy, Faculty of
Medicine, University of Pisa
2009- 2011 Member of the Scientific Panel of the Department of Physics, University of Pisa
2008-2010 Member of the committee for the preparation of the new syllabus of the undergraduate degree in
Physics, University of Pisa
2001- 2010 Faculty member of the Specialty School in Neurophysiopathology, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Pisa
2005-2007 Member of the Board of Officers of the Department of Physics, University of Pisa
2000- 2003 Member of the Scientific Committee for the Research in Physics, University of Pisa
1991-2000 Faculty member of the PhD School in Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Ferrara
1994-1997 Chairman of the Faculty of Physics for undergraduate studies (Presidente del Consiglio di
Corso di Laurea in Fisica), Faculty of Science, University of Ferrara
1994-1997 Chairman of the subcommittee for interdisciplinary Physics of INFN, Branch of Ferrara
1994-1997 Member of the Scientific Committee of the Consorzio Ferrara-Ricerche, as
University of Ferrara representative
1988-1991 - Faculty member of the Specialty School in Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Napoli
1983-1987 - Faculty member of the Specialty School of Health and Medical Physics,
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Pisa
1975-1980 - Director of the one-year Post-graduate Course on Health and Medical Physics,
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Pisa
Awards and recognization
IEEE Fellow (as from 2012)
Honorary Member of EFOMP (as from 2009)
Honorary Editor of Physica Medica- EJMP (as from 2008)
Honorary Editor of DGMP (As from 1996)
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MAIN TOPICS of RESEARCH
Medical Physics (1976 - to date)
Detector development and applications to  and X-ray imaging
- Development of gaseous detectors for biomedical applications
- Digital autoradiography with MWPCs :
for biological studies (DNA repair capability)
for physiology research (glucose metabolism in the heart)
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET) with MWPCs and lead glass matrices
- Digital radiography with MWPC
- Digital radiography with double sided microstrips silicon detectors
- Digital radiography with CCD's
- SPECT and PET with multi-crystal and position sensitive phototubes
- Mammography and quasi-monochromatic X-ray tubes
- Quasi monochromatic CT-scanner
- Integrated CT-SPECT system for scintimammography
- Animal PET and SPECT scanner
- Scintimammography and Positron Emission Mammography
- Small animal CT scanner
- Combined CT-PET and CT-SPECT modalities for animal scanner
- Molecular Imaging
- Molecular Medicine
- New photodetectors for Medical Imaging applications (PSPMT, SiPM, MPCC,..)
- Combined PET-MRI scanners
- Cerenkov imaging in vivo
Quality Control
- Quality control in Radiology and in Nuclear Medicine
Cyclotron and PET Installation in a clinical environment
Simulation and Computer Applications in Medical Physics
- Compton Tomography
- Use of Radiation transport Monte Carlo codes in:
Detector design and development
In vivo dosimetry for Proton Therapy
- Neural Network in Medical Physics
- Simulation and reconstruction algorithms for 3-D PET
- Simulation and reconstruction algorithms for 3-D animal SPECT and 3-D animal PET
- Simulation and reconstruction algorithms for CT animal scanner
Radiotherapy
- Participation at the TERA collaboration for the design and construction of a Proton
accelerator clinical facility for radiotherapy
- PET in vivo dosimetry for hadron therapy
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- fMRI with BOLD technique
- fMRI and EEG combined Imaging
- Ultra High Field (7T) MRI installation
- Coils design for Ultra High Field (7T) MRI
High Energy Physics (1970-1991)
Electromagnetic interactions (1970-1975)
Electroproduction experiments at the NINA Electrosynchrotron of D.N.P.L. , U.K.
- + and  o electro-production near threshold
- Elastic e-p scattering
- Inclusive nucleon electro-production from hydrogen and deuterium
- Shadowing effects in electro-production off nuclei
- Set up and calibration of a large area neutron detector.
Detectors development for energy measurement and particle identification (1982-1991)
- Electromagnetic calorimetry
Accelerator Physics (1967-70)
Participation to the Design Group for the 80 GeV Italian Protosynchrotron Machine
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MAIN CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS: MEDICAL IMAGING
Nuclear Medicine
& Molecular Imaging
- Small Animal PET, SPECT and CT scanners
- Scintimammography and Positron Emission Mammography
- Simulation and reconstruction algorithms for 3-D animal SPECT, PET and CT scanners
- Applications of preclinical instrumentation to molecular imaging
- Cerenkov imaging in vivo
Radiology:
- Digital radiography with position sensitive solid state detectors
Combined Modalities
- Combined CT-PET, CT-SPECT and PET-SPECT modalities for small animal imaging
- Combined CT-SPECT modalities for mammography
- Combined PET-MRI scanners
Radiotherapy
- PET in vivo dosimetry for hadron therapy
Radiation Detector
- New solid state photodetectors : the Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM)-Development and
applications to TOFPET and PET/MRI
Magnetic Resonance Imaging and fMRI
- fMRI with BOLD technique
- Ultrahigh Field MRI (7T)
- Coils design for Ultra High Field (7T) MRI
Three modality imaging (PET-MR-EEG)
-TRIMAGE Project (FP7 funded. 2013-2017)
PUBBLICATIONS
Papers in Refereed International Journals
Papers in Proceedings of International Conferences ........
Books and Chapters of Books
Papers in Italian Journal and Proceedings of Italian meetings
Communications at meetings, Internal reports, Abstracts etc.
Patents
H-index (on ISI Web of Knowledge) [as of 31 October 2015]]
Total number of citations [as of 15 September 2012}
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Most Important Achievements in Research Leadership
2013-2017 Coordinator of the FP7 funded project TRIMAGE
2008-to date Representative of the University of Pisa in the Scientific Committee of the IMAGO7 foundation,
[established for the installment of a 7T MRI at Pisa University].
2009-2014 Participating ,as responsible of a Unit, to several projects at European level funded within FP7, i.e.,
HADRON PHYSICS2 and HADRON PHYSICS3(Capacity), ENVISION (Cooperation), MPE
(Euratom)
2004-2009 Participating at several projects at European level funded within FP6 (i.e., NoE EMIL, Coordination
Action SENTINEL
1998-2014
Setting up of a new Medical Physics group in the field of Functional Imaging at the Department of
Physics, University of Pisa, Italy <http://www.df.unipi.it/~fiig/>
Leading and running several scientific collaboration projects with several university groups and INFN
group
Establishing scientific collaborations with several research groups of Italian Universities, and
Scientific Institutions.
Establishing scientific collaborations with several research groups of foreign Universities, i.e.
University of California at Irvine (US), Free University of Bruxelles (BE), University of
Heidelberg(DE), University of Cambridge(UK), University of Valencia(SP), Politechnico de
Madrid(SP), University of Washington (US).
1991-1998 Strengthening the line of research in Medical Physics at the Department of Physics,
University of Ferrara, Italy. The Medical Physics group at Ferrara University has now more than ten
dedicated researchers.
1987-1991 Establishing from scratch the line of research in Medical Imaging at the Department of Physics,
University of Napoli. Spin-off of this initiative has been the formation of a group of researchers in
Medical Physics, who are now staff scientists at Napoli University ,Italy
1974-1987 Establishing from scratch the line of research in Medical Physics at the Department of Physics,
University of Pisa. Spin-off of this initiative has been the formation of a large group
of researchers in Medical Physics, who are now staff scientists and the establishment of the Specialty
School of Medical Physics at Pisa University, Italy
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MOST RECENT RESEARCH GRANTS SINCE THE APPOINTMENT AT PISA UNIVERSITY
(November 1998)
2002- 2014
HadronPhysics3 (EU financed project under FP7- Cooperation)
Unit of Pisa (  100k€)
Group leader of the unit of the University of PISA: A. Del Guerra
2010- 2014
ENVISION (EU financed project under FP7- Cooperation)
Unit of Pisa (  100k€)
Group leader of the unit of the University of PISA: A. Del Guerra
2010-2011
MPE (Euratom Tender)
Unit of Pisa (  30k€)
Group leader of the unit of the University of PISA: A. Del Guerra
2009- 2012
HadronPhysics2 (EU financed project under FP7- Cooperation)
Unit of Pisa (  100k€)
Group leader of the unit of the University of PISA: A. Del Guerra
2008-2010
“A very high spatial resolution small animal PET scanner based on high granularity silicon
photomultipliers” (  200k€)
MIUR (Italian Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research): two-year Grant
for scientific research Programs of Relevant Interest for the Nation - COFIN 2007
Collaboration: Universities of Bari,Bologna, Perugia, Pisa,Trento
Group leader: A. Del Guerra
2007-2010
“DaSiPM2- Development and Applications of Silicon Photomultipliers” (  500k€)
INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) :three + one-year Interdisciplinary Research Grant
Collaboration: INFN Branch of Pisa, Bari,Bologna, Perugia, Trento
Group leader: A. Del Guerra
2006-2008
PEM (Positron Emission Mammography) (  80k€)
Two-year project funded by the “Fondazione della Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa”
Group leader: A. Del Guerra
2006-2008
“DoPET - Dosimetry with in vivo PET for hadron therapy” (  150k€)
INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare): three-year Interdisciplinary Research Grant
Collaboration: INFN Branch of Pisa, Bologna
2006-2006
“DaSiPM- Development and Applications of Silicon Photomultipliers” (  66k€)
INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) : one-year Interdisciplinary Research Grant
Collaboration: INFN Branch of Pisa, Bari,Bologna, Perugia, Trento
Group leader: A. Del Guerra
2005-2008
SENTINEL Coordination Action (EU financed project under FP6)
Unit of Pisa (  10k€)
Group leader of the unit of the University of PISA: A. Del Guerra
2005-2006
“New techniques for Breast Cancer Imaging”(273.5 k€)
MIUR (Italian Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research): two-year Grant
for scientific research Programs of Relevant Interest for the Nation - COFIN 2004
Collaboration: Universities of Bologna, Cagliari, Napoli, Pisa and Roma “La Sapienza”
Group leader: A. Del Guerra
2004- 2008
EMIL Network of Excellence (EU financed project under FP6)
Unit of Pisa (  18k€)
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2004-2005
“SiPM- Silicon Photomultipliers” (  120 k€)
INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) : two year Interdisciplinary Research Grant
Collaboration: INFN Branch of Pisa, Perugia, Bologna
Group leader: A. Del Guerra
2003-2004
COFIN 2002 – University of Pisa
One year grant for the feasibility study of a second generation small animal PET scanner (45.3 k€)
Group leader: A. Del Guerra
2002-2004
Research Unit of Physics of the Center of Excellence AMBISEN of the University of Pisa
Two year grant for the construction of a dedicated small animal PET-SPECT scanner (230 k€)
Group Leader of the Unit of Physics: A.Del Guerra
2002-2003
“TAPPA - CT-scanner for Small Animal Tomography” (  34 k€)
INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) : two year Interdisciplinary Research Grant
Collaboration: INFN Branch of Pisa
Group leader: A. Del Guerra
2001-2003
“AMBISEN – Environment and Endocrine and Nervous Systems: High Technology Center for the
study of the effects of Harmful Agents”: 2100 MLit ( 1084 k€)
MURST (Italian Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research). Three year grant
for the establishment of Centers of Excellence in the Italian Universities
Collaboration: Several Units of Research of the University of Pisa
Group Leader of the Unit of Physics: A. Del Guerra
Group Leader of the Center of Excellence: Aldo Pinchera
2001-2002
“Single Photon Emission and Positron Emission Mammography (SPEM and PEM)”: 626 MLit
( 323 k€)
MURST (Italian Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research): two-year Grant
for scientific research Programs of Relevant Interest for the Nation - PRIN 2000
Collaboration: Universities of Bologna, Ferrara, Pisa and Roma “La Sapienza”
Group leader: A. Del Guerra
1999-2001
“GEM- A new readout method for position sensitive detectors to be used in Gamma Emission
Mammography” : 143 MLit ( 73 k€)
INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) : three year Interdisciplinary Research Grant
Collaboration: INFN Branches of Pisa and Ferrara
Group leader: A. Del Guerra
1999-2000
“Combined Emission Transmission Tomography for Breast cancer”: 843 MLit (  435 k€)
MURST (Italian Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research): two-year Grant
for scientific research Programs of Relevant Interest for the Nation - PRIN 1998
Collaboration: Universities of Bologna, Ferrara, Roma La Sapienza and Trieste
Group leader: A. Del Guerra
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TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES
at University of Pisa (1998-to date)
2009- to date-Medical Physics, 1st year, Master in Medical Physics, Faculty of Physics, Univ of Pisa
2007- to date -Medical Physics, 1st year, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pisa
2001- to date- Physics for Nuclear Medicine, Specialty School of Nuclear Medicine,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Pisa
1999-to date -Medical Physics, Specialty School of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine ,
University of Pisa
1999- to date -Physics for Radiologists, Specialty School of Radiology and Radiotherapy,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Pisa
2009- 2011- Medical Physics and Informatics, 1st year, School of Nursery, Faculty of Medicine, Univ of Pisa
2002- 2010 - Radiobiology and Radioprotection, 3-year Laurea for Radiographers (2nd year), Faculty of
Medicine, University of Pisa
2002- 2010- Instrumentation for Radiology, 3-year Laurea for Radiographers (2nd year), Faculty of Medicine,
University of Pisa
2001- 2010 - Physics for Neurophysiopathologists , Specialty School of Neurophysiopathology,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Pisa
1998- 2007 -Medical Physics, 1st year, School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pisa
2003- 2007 - Radioprotection, 2nd year School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pisa
2002- 2002 Physics 3-year Laurea for Technicians in Medical Disciplines (1st year), Faculty of Medicine,
University of Pisa
2000-2001 Radiobiology and Radioprotection, Diploma for Radiographers, Faculty of Medicine
University of Pisa
2000-2001 Instrumentation for Radiology, Diploma for Radiographers, Faculty of Medicine
University of Pisa
at University of Ferrara (1991-1998)
1991 -1998 - Medical Physics Course, Department of Physics,
Faculty of Science, University of Ferrara
1993 -1994 - 1st year Physics Course(Mechanics and Thermodynamics),Department of Physics
Faculty of Science, University of Ferrara
1991 -1993- 1st year Physics Course(Mechanics and Thermodynamics)
Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Ferrara
at University of Napoli (1987-1991)
1988- 1991 - Nuclear and Radiation Physics Course, Specialty School of Nuclear
Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Napoli
1987-1991 - Physics Course, Biology Department, Faculty of Science, University of Napoli
at University of Pisa (1972-1987)
1983-1987 - Physics and Dosimetry Course, Specialty School of Health and Medical
Physics, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Pisa
1985-1987 - 2nd year Physics Course (Electromagnetism)
Computer Science Department, Faculty of Science, University of Pisa
1972-1984 - 1st year Physics Course (Mechanics and Thermodynamics)
Computer Science Department, Faculty of Science, University of Pisa
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Other Academic Teaching Responsibilities
Thesis Supervisor of:
2012-2013 2 students: Degree in Physics (five year MS), University of Pisa
(Esther Ciarrocchi. Manuele Calussi)
2012-2014 2 post-graduate student in PhD School of Applied Physics: curriculum in Medical Physics,
University of Pisa (Matteo Morrocchi, Riccardo Stara)
Thesis (defended) Supervisor of:
2007-2012 1 post-graduate student in Specialty School of Medical Physics , University of Pisa
(Antonietta Bartoli)
2011-2012 1 student: Degree in Physics (five year MS), University of Pisa
(Anna Cavallo)
2009-2011 1 post-graduate student in PhD School of Applied Physics: curriculum in Medical Physics,
University of Pisa (Abolfazl Arabpour-Feribors
2008-2010 1 post-graduate student in PhD School of Applied Physics: curriculum in Medical Physics,
University of Pisa (Sebnem Erturk)
2007-2010 1 post-graduate student in PhD School of Applied Physics, curriculum in Medical Physics
University of Pisa (Serena Fabbri)
2007-2010 1 post-graduate student in Specialty School of Medical Physics , University of Pisa
(Francesca Attanasi)
2007-2008 2 student: Degree in Applied Physics (five year MS), University of Pisa
(Marta Lazzeroni, Sarah Bassi)
2006-2009 3 post-graduate student in Specialty School of Medical Physics , University of Pisa
(Sara Marcatili, Judy Fogli, Gina Belmonte)
2006-2007 1 student: Degree in Applied Physics (five year MS), University of Pisa
(Luigi Spontoni)
2005-2008 1 post-graduate student in Specialty School of Medical Physics , University of Pisa
(Daniele Panetta)
2005-2008 1 PhD student in Applied Physics: curriculum in Medical Physics , University of Pisa
(Sara Vecchio)
2005-2006 2 students: Degree in Applied Physics (five year MS), University of Pisa
(Francesca Attanasi, Luigi Spontoni)
2004-2008 1 PhD students in Applied Physics: curriculum in Medical Physics , University of Pisa
(Sascha Moehrs)
2004-2008 1 PhD students in Applied Physics: curriculum in Medical Physics , University of Pisa
(Antonietta Bartoli)
2004-2007 1 post-graduate student in Specialty School of Medical Physics , University of Pisa
(Manuela Camarda)
2004-2005 2 students: Degree in Applied Physics (five year MS), University of Pisa
(Nicola D’ Ascenzo, Sara Marcatili)
2003-2004 1 student: Degree in Applied Physics (five year MS), University of Pisa
(Daniele Panetta)
2002-2004 4 students: Degree in Physics (three year BS), University of Pisa
2002-2003 1 student: Degree in Physics (four years Laurea), University of Pisa
(Manuela Camarda)
2001-2005 1 PhD student in Physics , University of Pisa (Laura Biagi)
2000-2004 1 post-graduate student in Specialty School of Medical Physics , University of Pisa (Angela Vaiano)
1998-2002 3 students: Degree in Physics (four years Laurea), University of Pisa
(Angela Vaiano, Laura Biagi, Sergio Righi)
1 PhD student in Physics , University of Pisa (Nicola Belcari)
1991-1998 8 students: Degree in Physics, University of Ferrara
1 student: Degree in Pharmacy, University of Ferrara
2 PhD student in Nuclear Medicine , University of Ferrara
3 PhD Students in Medical Physics, University of Ferrara
1987-1991 4 students: Degree in Physics, University of Napoli
1976-1987 7 students: Degree in Physics, University of Pisa
2 students: Degree in Computer Science, University of Pisa
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OTHER PROFESSIONAL and SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
Long-term appointments (running)
2011-2014
Elected Member to ADCOM of IEEE-NPSS for the 4-year term 2011-2014
2008-to date Honorary Editor of the journal: "Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics”
2003-to date Member of the International Panel of Assessors for the FP6 and FP7 of the EU
1997-to date Member of the International Panel of Assessors for the Italian Ministry of University and
Research (MIUR) for Research Large Grants
1993-to date- Expert Assessor of International Standing for the Australian Research Council (ARC) panel
for Grant and Research Fellowship Applications
Long-term appointments (expired)
2010-2012 Member of the Science Committee of the IOMP
2008-2010 Member of the PPC of European Congress of Radiology 2008 and 2009 and 2010
2007-2011 Member of the Physics Committee of the EANM
2006- 2011 Member of the Oversight Committee of IEEE NSS MIC
2006-2007 Past- President of the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics
2003-2005 President of the European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics
2002-2003 Vice President of the European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics
1999- 2011 Member of the Transnational (TN) Committee of IEEE NPSS
1999- 2011 Member of the Conference Information Promotion (CIP) Committee for NSS-MIC
1988-2007 Editor in chief of the journal: "Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics”
[ Official journal of EFOMP (European Federation of Organizations of Medical Physics) and of the
following National Medical Physics societies: AIFM, DGMP, LMEPS, NVKF, SFPM, SAMPS
1998-2001 Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the European Federation of Organizations for Medical
Physics
1998-2002 Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European School of Medical Physics (ESMP)
Archamps, France
1998-2002 Member of the International Panel of Assessors for the EU for the Vth Framework
1995-2001 Member of the International Scientific Committee of the CNR PET Center
Faculty of Medicine, University of Napoli (Federico II), Italy
Single- -term appointments (running)
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Chair and Member of the Organizing Committee of the PSMR2013 Conference,
Julich, Germany May 2013
Single- -term appointments (expired)
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Invited Lecture at the International School of Nuclear Physics at la Rabida, Spain, 9-13 September 2013
Member of the organizing committee of the Physics for Health in Europe Workshop
27-29 February 2012, Geneva, Switzerland
Member of the organizing committee of and invited speaker at “MEDRAPET workshop”
Athens, Greece 21-23 April 2012
Chair and Member of the Organizing Committee of the PSMR2012 Conference,
Isola d’Elba, Italy 26-30 May 2012
Chair of the Medical Imaging Conference of the IEEE_ NSS_MIC _2011,
Valencia (SP), October 23-29, 2011
Member of the organizing committee of and invited speaker at “European Commission Project:
Guidelines on Medical Physics Expert (MPE) International Workshop”
Seville, Spain 9-10 May 2011
Member of the organizing committee of the13th EFOMP Workshop –ECR 2011
New Technology in Diagnostic Radiology
Invited speaker at the CME #4 (Dosimetry - Preclinical Targeted Radionuclide Therapy) of the
EANM’10, Vienna - October 9-13 , 2010
Member of the organizing committee of and invited speaker at “IMAGING 2010”
Stockholm, 8-11 June 2010
Member of the organizing committee of the12th EFOMP Workshop –ECR 2010
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Member of the organizing committee of the Physics for Health in Europe Workshop
2-4 February 2010, CERN
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the World Congress on Medical Physics 2009,
Munich September 2009
Member and Chair of the organizing committee of the 11th EFOMP Workshop –ECR 2009
New Technology in Diagnostic Radiology
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Second European Conference on Medical Physics,
Krakow, September 2008
Member of the Scientific committee of the 2008 EANM Annual Congress,
Munich October 11-15,2008
Member of the Scientific Committee of the PSD8 Conference,
Glasgow 31 August, 5 September 2008
Member and Chair of the organizing committee of the10th EFOMP Workshop –ECR 2008
New Technology in Diagnostic Radiology ”High field MRI for clinical and pre-clinical study”,
Vienna, March, 2008
Invited lecturer at the XVIII Corso Nazionale AIMN “Principi dell'Imaging Molecolare”
Roma, 29 febbraio - 2 marzo 2008
Invited lecturer at the Workshop “Dosimetric issues in the Medical Use of Ionising radiation”
Paris-21-25 January 2008
Member of the organizing committee of and Invited Lecturer at the 9th EFOMP Workshop –ECR 2007
New Technology in Diagnostic Radiology ”Advances in Molecular imaging”,
Vienna, March 10, 2007
Chairman of the “X EFOMP Congress-First European Conference on Medical Physics” ,
Il Ciocco(LU, Italy , September 2008
Co-Director and Invited speaker at the Convegno “La Fisica Medica : clinica, tecnologia,
ricerca” Cagliari, 16-17 novembre 2006
Member of the Advisory Committee of and Invited Lecturer at the International meeting “Frontiers in
Imaging science: high performance detectors for vascular disease (brain and heart) imaging based on
the latest developments in scintillators, photodetectors, and solid state materials”
Rome, November 13-14, 2006
”Member of the International Advisory Committee and Invited Lecturer at the Conference ”Imaging
2006”, Stockholm, Sweden , 27-30 June 2006
Member of the International Advisory Committee of 10th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and
Radiation Detectors (IPRD06) 1 - 5 October 2006 Siena, Italy
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the EUROMEDIM 2006”,
Marseille, May 9-12, 2006
Member of the organizing committee of the 8th EFOMP Workshop - ECR 2006
New Technology in Diagnostic Radiology “New Detectors for Digital Imaging: Implications for
Optimisation, Standardisation and Quality Control” Vienna, 4 March 2006
Member of the Advisory Committee of the TOPICAL SYMPOSIUM on “Advanced Molecular Imaging
Techniques in the Detection, Diagnosis, Therapy and Treatment Follow-Up of Prostate Cancer”
Rome, December 5-6,2005.
Member of the organizing Committee of the 7th EFOMP Workshop –ECR 2005
“New Technology in Diagnostic Radiology” The Inescapable Growth of Information Technology
Vienna, Saturday 5 March, 2005
General Chairman of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 2004,
Roma, Italy, October 2004
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the “9th Topical Seminar on
Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors”, Siena 23-26 May 2004
Member of the organizing committee of the 6th EFOMP Workshop –ECR 2004
“New Technology in Diagnostic Radiology”Advances in Digital Detectors, Vienna, 6 March, 2004
Member of the organizing committee and Invited Lecturer of the 5th EFOMP Workshop –ECR 2003
New Technology in Diagnostic Radiology ”Molecular imaging”, Vienna, March 08, 2003
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Conference ”Imaging 2003”,
Stockholm, Sweden , 24-27 June 2003
Member of the organizing committee of 4th EFOMP Workshop –ECR 2002
“New Technology in Diagnostic Radiology”Patient Dose, Image Quality and Clinical Effectiveness
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Member of the Advisory committees of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging
Conference 2002, Norfolk (USA), November 2002
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the “8th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle
and Radiation Detectors”, Siena 21-24 October 2002
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the BEAUNE 2002 - 3rd Conference on "New
Developments in Photodetection”, Beaune, France, June 17-21, 2002
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IRRMA-2002, Bologna June 2002
Member of the organizing committee of the Workshop “New Technology in Radiology: Patient Dose,
Image Quality and Clinical Effectiveness in CT examinations” 4 th EFOMP Workshop of the
European Conference of Radiology, ECR'2002 Vienna, Austria, March 2, 2002
Invited Lecturer at the AIFM Course “Medicina Nucleare: principi fisici ed applicazioni” of the School
Superiore di Fisica in Medicina “P. Caldirola”, Como, Italy, 19-21 November 2001
Invited Lecturer at the XI Corso Nazionale di Aggiornamento Professionale in Medicina Nucleare
“Strumentazione e Procedure di Imaging Integrato in Medicina Nucleare”, Pisa, Italy, 29-31
October and 1-3 November 2001.
Member of the Advisory committees of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging
Conference 2001, San Diego (USA), November 2001
Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Congress of Medical Physics, EFOMP 2001,
Belfast (UK),September 2001
Member of the Search Committee for the Director of the Institute of CNR “Biostrutture e
Bioimmagini”,Napoli, Italy (2001)
Chairman of the Workshop “New Technology in Radiology: Combined modalities” 3rd EFOMP
Workshop of the European Conference of Radiology, ECR'2001 Vienna, Austria, March 2001
Member of the steering committee of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging
Conference 2000, Lyon (France), October 2000
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Workshop “New Technology in Radiology: Technological
Advances in dose reduction and Improving Image Quality” 2 nd EFOMP Satellite Workshop of the
European Conference of Radiology, ECR'99 Vienna, Austria, 4 March 2000
Program Chairman of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium 1999
Seattle ,Washington (USA),October 24-26, 1999
Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the VI International Conference on Medical Physics, Patras
99, Patras, Greece, 1-5 September 1999 and Co-Editor of the Proceedings, Monduzzi Editori,
Bologna, Italy, 2000.
Chairman of the Subcommittee for Physics of Medical Imaging at the European Conference of
Radiology, ECR'99 Vienna, Austria, March 1999
Chairman of the Workshop “New Technology in Radiology: New Methods and Developments” 1 st
EFOMP Satellite Workshop of the European Conference of Radiology, ECR'99 Vienna, Austria,
March 1999
Member of the International Scientific Committee of the World Congress on Medical physics and
Biomedical Engineering, Nice, France, September 1997
Chairman of the Subcommittee for Physics of Medical Imaging
at the European Conference of
Radiology, ECR'97 Vienna, Austria, March 1997
Guest Editor of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 1996 Anaheim,
California(USA), November 2-9, 1996
Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the V international Conference on Applications of
Physics in Medicine and Biology, Trieste, Italy, September 2-7,1996
Invited lecturer at the International Seminar on Medical Imaging and new types of detectors, ESI,
Archamps, France, May 15-19,1995
Member of the Subcommittee for "Physics of Medical Imaging" at the European Conference of
Radiology ’95, ECR'95, Vienna, March 1995
Invited Lecturer of the Academic Training Program at CERN: "Lecture Series -Detectors application in
Medicine and Biology", January 9-13, 1995
Member of the Scientific Committee, Convener of the session of Nuclear Medicine and Invited Lecturer
on the "Status of art of Nuclear medicine" at the World Congress in Medical Physics and Biomedical
Engineering, Rio '94, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 21-26, 1994
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Convener of the special session on "Frontier Detectors for Medical Physics" at the Frontier Detectors
for Frontier Physics- 6th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors, 1994, La Biodola, Italy, May 22-28,
1994
Organizer and Lecturer of the EGS4 course "Radiation Transport Calculations using the EGS4 Monte
Carlo system", Capri, Italy, June 28- July 1, 1994.
Invited Lecturer at the "Symposium on Applications and Developments of gaseous chamber techniques
for use in Physics, Biology and Medicine", Nobel Symposium in honor of G. Charpak, Lund
Sweden), May, 1993.
Organizer and Editor (of the Proceedings of) the IV "International Conference on Applications of
Physics to Medicine and Biology" , Trieste , Italy, September 21-25, 1992
Invited Lecturer of the "1992 EFOMP Advanced School in Medical Physics: Metabolism studies using
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Positron Emission Tomography", Villa Olmo, Italy,
May 25-29,1992
Organizer and Editor (of the Proceedings of) the III "International Conference on Applications of
Physics to Medicine and Biology" , Trieste, Italy, September 4-7,1990
Invited Lecturer of the VIII Course of the "International School of Radiation Damage and Protection:
Monte Carlo transport of Electrons and Photons below 50 MeV", Erice (TP), Italy, October 1987
Co -Director and Lecturer of the VII Course of the "International School of Radiation Damage and
Protection: Advances in Medical Imaging and Related Dosimetry ", Erice (TP), Italy, July 5-15, 1986
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Scientific Reviewing Activities
1988-2007 - Editor in chief of Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics
2008- to date Honorary Editor of Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics
Regular Reviewer for the following journals:
- IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and
Associated Equipment
- Physica Medica-EJMP
- Radiation Protection and Dosimetry
- Physics in Medicine and Biology
- Medical Physics
Scientific Assessor for:
- ARC (Australia)
-Ministry of Research (France)
-Ministry of Health (Spain)
-Ministry of Research (Norway)
-Ministry of Research (The Netherlands)
-Ministry of Research (Switzerland))
-Several private research foundations
Scientific Society Officer responsibility
EFOMP (European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics)
2009Honorary member
2006-2007
Past President
2003-2005
President
2002-2003
Vice-President
1998-2001
Chairman of the Scientific Committee (from 1997)
1993-1997
Member of the Council
1993-1997
Member of the Scientific Committee
IOMP (International Organisation for Medical Physics)
2008-2009
Member of the Advisory Board
2010- to date
Member of the Science Committee
AIFB (Italian Association of Bio-Medical Physics)
1991-1996
Vice -President
1988-1996
Elected Officer
AIFM (Italian Association of Medical Physics)
2010-2011
Elected Officer
2008-2009
Elected Officer
Scientific Society Membership
IEEE
DGMP
AAPM
EANM
ECR/ESR
SIF
AIFM
AIRP
AIMN
(The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Senior Member, since 1993,Fellow since 2012
(German Society of Medical Physics) Honorary Member, since 1996
(American Association of Physicists in Medicine)
(European Association of Nuclear Medicine)
(European Congress of Radiology/European Society of Radiology)
(Italian Physics Society)
(Italian Society of Medical Physics)
(Italian Association of Radiation Protection) [discontinued]
(Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine) [discontinued]
Language skills
English
French
Oral: excellent
Written: excellent
Elementary
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