Triestino Minniti

I have been an Associate Professor of Applied Physics at the Department of Physics, University of Rome "Tor Vergata," since 2025.

My current research interests focus on two main areas:

Medical and Radiation Physics: I am involved in the development of experimental and computational techniques to improve oncological treatments such as hadrontherapy. In this field, I coordinate the development of tissue-equivalent continuous dosimeters for dose quantification in complex environments, including Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT), as well as the development and testing of new microdosimetric detectors. My activity also includes the study of energy deposition in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

Nuclear Fusion: In collaboration with the EUROfusion consortium (Work Package Divertor) and ENEA, I work on the development and characterization of components for magnetic confinement fusion reactors (DTT, ITER, EU-DEMO) using advanced neutron imaging techniques. My research also involves the development of silicon carbide and diamond neutron detectors for diagnostic applications in fusion reactors.

I have authored over 100 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and serve as Principal Investigator (PI) for numerous experiments at major research infrastructures, including ISIS-RAL (UK), PSI-SINQ (Switzerland), ILL, and ESRF (France). I actively collaborate with leading research institutions in the field of thermonuclear fusion, such as EUROfusion, ENEA, IPP (Germany), and CEA IRFM (France).

From 2022 to 2025, I held the position of Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTD-B) at the Department of Physics, University of Rome "Tor Vergata," following a brief period in 2022 as a researcher at ENEA, Frascati Research Centre. Previously, from 2018 to 2022, I served as a Senior Neutronics and Radiometric Scientist at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), working at the Joint European Torus (JET) at the Culham campus and coordinating activities related to reactor neutron diagnostics and material characterization. From 2014 to 2018, I was an Instrument Scientist on the IMAT beamline at the ISIS Spallation Neutron Source (STFC) in the United Kingdom.

My academic career began at the University of Messina, where I graduated in Physics with honors in 2009 and earned my PhD in 2013, with a thesis titled "Study of correlation functions in heavy-ion collisions".