HTI and RI-IWEAR Joint Research Seminar (只有英文版本)

Prof. Katia Parodi is since 2012 full professor and founding Chair of Medical Physics at the Physics Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich, where she initiated a specialization curriculum in Medical Physics within the MSc in Physics. She studied Physics and Medical Physics at the University of Genoa, Italy, received in 2004 her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Dresden, Germany, and subsequently pursued postdoctoral research at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. In 2006 she returned to Germany as tenured scientist and group leader at the Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center, obtaining in 2009 her Habilitation from the Heidelberg University. Prof. Parodi’s research interests are in high-precision image-guided radiotherapy, with focus on advanced methods for delivery, imaging and in-vivo monitoring of pre-clinical and clinical ion therapy. For her work, reported in over 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals, she received several recognitions, including the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Bruce Hasegawa Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award in 2009, the AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award in 2015 and an ERC (European Research Council) Consolidator grant in 2016. In 2017-2018 she served as president of the German Society for Medical Physics (DGMP). She is since 2021 the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology, and since 2024 an AAPM Fellow. In 2026 she also received the Glocker Medal, DGMP’s highest distinction.