Pietro Mancosu

Associate Professor

Physics for Life Sciences
Associate Professor

Academic background 

Current role – Associate Professor 

Previous experiences: 

  • Chief assistant Medical Physicist at Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery Department (2009-2024 IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital – Rozzano (MI). 

Membership and leadership roles 

  • Membership:   European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology (ESTRO); European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (EFOMP); Italian Association of Medical Physics and Radioprotection (AIFM); Associated to National Institute of Nuclear Medicine (INFN)
  • Honorary professor, department Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering of University College London (UCL) (2024-2027)
  • Scientific Committee member for annual congresses: ESTRO (2016,2019), AIFM (2018,2025); EFOMP/ECMP 2021.
  • ESTRO: ESTRO: Co-Chair of the ESTRO 2021 physics workshop on “Strategies for SBRT planning harmonisation, paving the path for data sharing”; member of the ESTRO School on Image-Guided Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (since 2024); Member of the ESTRO guidelines committee for spine SBRT (2023-24)
  • AIFM: Chair of the Italian working group on physics and dosimetric aspects of SBRT (>100 Italian medical physicists involved); 30+ publications in major medical physics journals (since 2014); Member of the AIFM Scientific Commission (leader for dissemination) (since 2018); AIFM representative member to ESTRO (since 2019).
  • Member of the ISS WG (Istituto Superiore di Sanità – Italian public heath advice) on radiation oncology safety (2023-2025).
  • Lecturer/expert for IAEA and ICTP/IAEA courses for medical physicists in development countries (since 2014).
  • Associated editor (Physica Medica: European Journal Medical Physics (since 2016), Journal Applied Clinical Medical Physics (since 2011), Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology (since 2023))
  • Principal Investigator of a grant (450k euro) funded by the Italian Ministry of Health (“Ricerca Finalizzata”) for the project: “Artificial Intelligence algorithms to automate the Total Marrow (Lymph-node) Irradiation by VMAT optimization using WB-CT/MRI and synthetic WBCT: The AuToMI project”

Education 

  • PhD degree in Medical physics at the Aarhus University (2019)
  • Postgraduate degree in Medical Physics at University of the Study of Milano (2008). 
  • Master Degree in Physics at University of the Study of Milano (2004)
HUMANITAS GROUP

Humanitas is a highly specialized Hospital, Research and Teaching Center. Built around centers for the prevention and treatment of cancer, cardiovascular, neurological and orthopedic disease – together with an Ophthalmic Center and a Fertility Center – Humanitas also operates a highly specialised Emergency Department.