Alberto Bravin

Alberto Bravin is Professor of Applied Physics-Medical Physics at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (since 2021) with a renewable position at the University of Calabria for the STAR infrastructure project. Previously, he led the ID17 Biomedical Beamline at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble for 18 years. His research bridges medical physics and clinical applications through advanced X-ray technologies.

Research interests span:

• Multiscale phase-contrast imaging for virtual histology
• Microbeam radiation therapy for neurological disorders
• Synchrotron-based computed tomography
• Artificial intelligence-enhanced biomedical imaging
• Radiotherapy optimization

His work has established new standards in tissue visualization, enabling 3D reconstruction of organs at histological resolution.

Awards and honors:

• Stanford University World Top 2% Scientist (2021)
• Médaille d'honneur de travail (French Silver Medal, 2021)
• Outstanding Scientist Award - Italian Synchrotron Society (2018)
• Fellow - American Association of Medical Physicists (2016)

He serves on editorial boards of major journals including Medical Physics and Scientific Reports, and has supervised multiple PhD theses on microbeam therapy applications. Current work includes developing the ThomX Compton X-ray source and studying chemotherapy-induced neurovascular changes using synchrotron imaging.