Marta Lazzeroni

Sweden

Biography

Marta Lazzeroni has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, Medical Radiation Physics division, Stockholm University since 2017. She obtained an MSc in Medical Physics at the University of Pisa in 2008. In 2009, she moved to Sweden to pursue her academic career at Karolinska Institute as a Marie Curie PhD student in the PARTNER (Particle Training Network for European Radiotherapy) project. In 2013, she defended her PhD thesis. In parallel with her postdoctoral studies at Karolinska Institute, she followed the MSc program in Medical Radiation Physics at Stockholm University. In 2015 she was granted the MSc degree and the professional licence as Medical Physicist. Her research interests include light ion therapy with positron emitter beams, dose delivery verification in particle therapy, biologically optimised adaptive radiotherapy, and mathematical modelling of tumour infiltration for gliomas. Since January 2021, she has been the Managing Editor for Physica Medica, European Journal of Medical Physics.