Dr. Elisabetta Sieni

Dr. Elisabetta Sieni received a degree in electronic engineering, with a thesis on biomedical engineering; a Ph.D. in bioelectromagnetics and electromagnetic compatibility, with a thesis on magnetic field sources and measurements of electromagnetic fields; and a Ph.D. in information engineering, curricula bioengineering, with a thesis on the use of numerical methods and optimization techniques applied for electromagnetic field computation of biological tissues and hyperthermia with magnetic nanoparticles for tumor treatment, from the Padova University in 2002, 2006, and 2011 respectively.

 

From 2010 to 2015, she was involved as a post-doctoral researcher with the Department of Industrial Engineering of Padova University. Her post-doctoral studies have focused on the field of electroporation of tumor cells, the development of new electrodes for electroporation, and the electrical properties of tumor tissues. She has also worked in the field of nanoparticles and nanofluids for tumor treatment (magneto fluid hyperthermia). From 2015 to 2018, she was an assistant professor in electrotechnics at Padova University and taught at the Photovoltaic Technologies and Electrotechnics Laboratory. Currently, she is an associate professor in electrotechnics at Insubria University.

 

She is involved in research projects on the numerical modelization of electric devices for industrial application, the design of biomedical applications of electromagnetic fields, numerical solutions of coupled electromagnetic and thermal problems, the development of optimization algorithms, and the use of magnetic nanoparticles in hyperthermia for tumor treatment and electrochemotherapy. She works on electroporation and she has designed electroporation experiments in 3D cell cultures involving cells and the extracellular matrix.

She has worked on the implementation of optimization algorithms for the design of biomedical devices and the treatment planning of medical therapies. She has built human models for numerical computation and used them for the evaluation of human exposure to electromagnetic fields. She is the author of various papers regarding congress proceedings and in international journals.

 

Her interests include the design of devices for medical applications, hyperthermia, electrochemotherapy, and electromagnetic field application for tumor treatment.

Dr.Vincenzo Torretta

Since 2020 he has been a full professor at the University of Insubria in Varese, teaching "Major accidents and risk analysis" and ""Studies and procedures for environmental compatibility" as part of the three-year degree course in Environmental and Safety Engineering, and "Complements of sanitary-environmental engineering" in the master's degree course in Environmental Engineering and for the sustainability of working environments. He is a member of the Doctoral College of Chemical and Environmental Sciences (DISCA) and is President of the Bachelor and Master of Engineering degree courses. Since 2019 he has been a delegate of the Director of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences for the drafting and monitoring of the Departmental Strategic Plan, since 2015 he has been a member of the three-year Commission for the distribution of the University Funds for Research - FAR and, since 2021 he has been President of the University Commission for Infrastructure Development. Since 2021 he has been Deputy Director of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences. He holds positions as Editor for several international journals in the field of environmental engineering and has organised several conferences, both nationally and internationally. He is the author of several publications in journals in the field of environmental and safety engineering, with an overall Impact Factor of about 560 (discounted to the year 2021) and Hindex of 33 (Scopus, June 2022). More than 310 publications are available on the Cineca-MIUR website, of which 200 are reported on the Scopus database (June 2022). He is also the author of the volumes "Safety and risk analysis of major accidents" (Sistemi Editoriali, 2006), "Studies and procedures for environmental impact assessment" (Flaccovio Editore, 2010), "Environmental health engineering" (Flaccovio Editore, 2015), "Environmental assessment and impact - Technical-operational manual for the elaboration of environmental impact studies" (Hoepli, 2016) and "Studies and procedures for environmental compatibility" (Litissea Ed., 2022). He is co-inventor of a solution for the treatment of gaseous effluents for which a patent has been granted. His research activity covers the fields of: energy recovery from biomass and waste, treatment of gaseous effluents by chemical-physical and biological processes, environmental and safety modelling, new technologies for wastewater treatment, reuse of material from solid waste, solid waste management and treatment.