Past dissertations
Thesis defense session 19 March 2026
Nontopological solitons for the study of the chromodielectric model of QCD and the formation of band structure in nuclear matter
Candidate: Edoardo Guidi
Supervisor: Alessandro Drago
Second reader: Federico Montoncello
Evaluation of X-ray focal spot size in clinical systems via circular penumbra analysis
Candidate: Marco Sassetti
Supervisor: Paolo Cardarelli
Co-supervisor: Jacopo Altieri
Second reader: Andrea Mazzolari
Measurement of the absolute branching fraction of the J/psi to gamma gamma gamma decay at BESIII
Candidate: Umberto Zarantonello
Supervisor: Gianluigi Cibinetto
Co-supervisor: Marco Scodeggio
Second reader: Giovanni Cavallero
Test beam of a drift chamber prototype with TIGER-GEMROC electronics
Candidate: Lorenzo Boccia
Supervisor: Gianluigi Cibinetto
Co-supervisors: Emma Di Fiore, Federico Matias Melendi
Second reader: Wander Baldini
Thesis defense session 11 December 2025
X-ray absorption spectroscopy analysis of fabricated germanium electrodes for lithium-ion batteries
Candidate: Alessandro Michelini
Supervisor: Donato Vincenzi
Co-supervisor: Valentina Diolaiti
Second reader: Federico Spizzo
Thesis defense session 9 October 2025
Muon Time-of-Flight studies for cosmic background rejection in the Short Baseline Near Detector
Candidate: Annalea Corallo
Supervisor: Roberto Calabrese
Second reader: Fabio Mantovani
Photometric redshift measurements of newly discovered strongly-lensed sources with Euclid
Candidate: Marta Melloni
Supervisor: Piero Rosati
Co-supervisor: Pietro Bergamini
Second reader: Luca Pagano
Thesis defense session 10 July 2025
Reflectivity measurements of a curved silicon crystal to build a Laue lens
Candidate: Gianluigi Ferruccio Ferioli
Supervisor: Cristiano Guidorzi
Co-supervisors: Lisa Ferro, Piero Rosati
Second reader: Paolo Cardarelli
Density dependence of the pressure inside hadrons
Candidate: Roberto Demaria
Supervisor: Alessandro Drago
Second reader: Paolo Lenisa
Radiomics and Artificial Intelligence for the prediction of treatment response of gynaecological cancer following Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy: An italian multicentric study
Candidate: Erica Costantino
Supervisor: Angelo Taibi
Co-supervisor: Savino Cilla
Second reader: Fabio Schifano
Thesis defense session 20 March 2025
Simulation of Type Ia Supernovae Gamma-ray Spectra observed with ASTENA Narrow-Field Telescope
Candidate: Sergio Fini
Supervisor: Cristiano Guidorzi
Co-supervisor: Mattia Bulla
Second reader: Luca Pagano
Thesis defense session 12 December 2024
Implementing Deep Neural Networks for in-situ crop yield prediction
Candidate: Nicola Macchioni
Supervisor: Fabio Mantovani
Second reader: Paolo Cardarelli
Thesis defense session 10 October 2024
Measurements of substrate and coating birefringence for the advancement of gravitational wave research
Candidate: Alina Mariana Soflau
Supervisor: Guido Zavattini
Co-supervisor: Michal Bejger
Second reader: Giovanni Di Domenico
Study of optical properties of downshifting layers for integration in photovoltaic modules
Candidate: Leonardo Sollazzo
Supervisor: Donato Vincenzi
Co-supervisor: Giulio Mangherini
Second reader: Cesare Malagù
Determination of the Reionization optical depth through a combined analysis of Planck and WMAP data
Candidate: Valentina Genesini
Supervisor: Luca Pagano
Co-supervisor: Giacomo Galloni
Second reader: Mattia Bulla
The IDEA muon detector at FCC-ee: Preparation and Data Analysis of a Test Beam
Candidate: Emma Di Fiore
Supervisor: Gianluigi Cibinetto
Co-supervisors: Federico Matias Melendi, Marco Scodeggio
Second reader: Mirco Andreotti
Thesis defense session 21 March 2024
Primordial cosmological perturbations in noncommutative spacetimes
Candidate: Thomas Lovo
Supervisors: Massimiliano Lattanzi, Luca Pagano
Co-supervisor: Giulia Gubitosi
Gravitational lensing modelling of galaxy clusters with multiply lensed quasars and prospects for cosmography
Candidate: Giorgia Di Rosa
Supervisor: Piero Rosati
Co-supervisor: Pietro Bergamini
Numerical Calculation of Cosmological Trajectory During the QCD Phase Transition with Lattice QCD based Equation of State
Candidate: Lorenzo Formaggio
Supervisor: Alessandro Drago
Co-supervisor: Claudia Ratti
Second reader: Massimiliano Lattanzi
Gravitational wave signatures of a primordial black hole dominated early Universe
Candidate: Riccardo Maule
Supervisor: Isabella Masina
Co-supervisor: Guillem Domènech
Second reader: Denis Comelli
Study of edge-preserving denoising filters for Digital Subtraction Angiography in a clinical setting
Candidate: Jacopo Altieri
Supervisors: Angelo Taibi, Paolo Cardarelli
Second reader: Sebastiano Fabio Schifano
Evidence for two different dynamics in long gamma-ray burst engines
Candidate: Martina Sartori
Supervisor: Cristiano Guidorzi
Characterization of a hybrid photon-counting detector based on Timepix4 for spectral X-ray imaging applications
Candidate: Vittoria Mazzini
Supervisor: Paolo Cardarelli
Co-supervisor: Massimiliano Fiorini
Second reader: Giovanni Di Domenico
Strategies for assessing high intensity radioactive sources in unknown shields
Candidate: Gabriele Galli
Supervisor: Fabio Mantovani
Co-supervisor: Matteo Albéri
Second reader: Angelo Taibi
Application of Deep Learning algorithms for automatic classification of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis images
Candidate: Matteo Bianchini
Supervisor: Gianfranco Paternò
Co-supervisor: Angelo Taibi
Second reader: Luca Tomassetti
Thesis defense session 14 December 2023
Integrability and chaos: the Ziegler pendulum
Candidate: Stefano Disca
Supervisor: Vincenco Coscia
Second reader: Giuseppe Pagliara
Analytical Insights into Tin-Titanium-Based Oxide Chemoresistive Gas Sensors: Mechanisms and Applications
Candidate: Sandro Gherardi
Supervisor: Cesare Malagù
Co-supervisor: Michele Astolfi, Giulia Zonta
Second reader: Donato Vincenzi
Radiomic analysis and predictive models in [18F]-Fluorocholine PET/CT
Candidate: Giovanni Scribano
Supervisor: Giovanni Di Domenico
Co-supervisor: Luigi Manco
Second reader: Enrico Calore.
Thesis defense session 26 October 2023
Using convolutional neural networks to extract cosmological parameters from CMB polarization maps
Candidate: Andrea Morelli
Supervisor: Luca Pagano
Thesis defense session 14 September 2023
Study of the dispersion of the time-resolved Amati correlation within a sample of Fermi long gamma-ray bursts with known redshift
Candidate: Manuele Maistrello
Supervisor: Cristiano Guidorzi
Co-supervisor: Lorenzo Amati
A bayesian analysis on the equation of state of neutron stars within relativistic mean field models
Candidate: Luca Passarella
Supervisor: Giuseppe Pagliara
Co-supervisor: Alessandro Drago, Jérôme Margueron
Gamma Ray Spectroscopy for Assessing Soil Water Content in Cultivated Fields
Candidate: Michele Franceschi
Supervisor: Fabio Mantovani
Co-supervisor: Virginia Strati
Validation of an operando DRIFT spectroscopy apparatus for photo-activated chemoresistive gas sensors and operating experience with innovative alkali-doped zinc oxide
Candidate: Emanuela Tavaglione
Supervisor: Vincenzo Guidi
Co-supervisor: Barbara Fabbri, Elena Spagnoli
n-situ gamma ray spectrometry challenges for NORM hotspot detection
Candidate: Giada Costantini
Supervisor: Fabio Mantovani
Co-supervisor: Matteo Albéri
Thesis defense session 13 July 2023
Beam dynamics simulations at the hybrid storage ring for EDM investigation
Candidate: Anna Piccoli
Supervisor: Paolo Lenisa
Co-supervisor: Rahul Shankar
SiPMs characterization in a wide temperature range: development of the setup and first measurements
Candidate: Anna Balboni
Supervisors: Marco Guarise, Luca Tomassetti
Thesis defense session 23 March 2023
Hypernuclei with neural-network quantum states
Candidate: Andrea Di Donna
Supervisor: Alessandro Drago
Co-supervisor: Francesco Pederiva
Soil water balance for improving a Sentinel-1 backscatter model
Candidate: Martina Natali
Supervisor: Fabio Mantovani
Development and Test of an Interlock System for the BESIII CGEM Detector
Candidate: Federico Matias Melendi
Supervisor: Gianluigi Cibinetto
Co-supervisor: Ilaria Balossino
