SIRR International Day: 2025 - Simulation and Biological Damage prediction

Monday 6 Oct 2025, 08:00 → 18:30 Europe/Rome

Aula Migneco (INFN-LNS)

Giada Petringa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

The Italian Society for Radiation Research (SIRR) is proud to announce the first international symposium it organizes, which will be held on October 6th, 2025, in Catania, Italy. This one-day event will focus on the prediction of biological damage through simulation, bringing together leading scientists working on Monte Carlo simulations, radiobiological modeling, and radiation-matter interaction.

The morning session will feature a series of invited talks by internationally recognized experts, including contributions on Geant4, Geant4-DNA, FLUKA, treatment planning systems, and the latest activities at ESA. In the afternoon, the symposium will be open to contributed presentations, offering the opportunity for young researchers and established scientists alike to share their latest findings and discuss open challenges in the field.

The abstract submission is now open, and we warmly invite the scientific community to participate actively in this exciting event.

08:00 Registration

1 INFN-LNS Introduction

2 INFN Activity in the framework of Applied Physics

Speaker: Oscar Adriani (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

3 SIRR and its collaboration with INFN

Speaker: Antonella Sgura (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

4 INFN-4LS: Ongoing Activity and Development Projects

Speaker: Giacomo Cuttone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:30 Coffee Break

5 Geant4 and Geant4-DNA: Monte Carlo Simulations Across Scales

Speaker: Luciano Pandola (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

6 Geant4-DNA Chemistry Modelling: General Overview, current status and future developments

Speaker: Serena Fattori (LNS)

7 Human spaceflight around Earth and in deep space: monitoring, shielding, and modelling to protect future ESA missions in a harsh radiation environment

Speaker: Giovanni Santin (ESA / ESTEC)

8 Translational BNCT: Coupling Experimental Radiobiology with Model-Based Dosimetry

Speaker: Ian Postuma (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

9 For a safer hadrontherapy: modelling and prediction of side effects

Speaker: Mario Pietro Carante (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

13:30 Lunch break

10 Radiation Biophysical modeling and understanding of Ultra-high dose rate response: present status and challenges

Speaker: Emanuele Scifoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11 Shaping the Future: Strategic Roadmap for Ultrafast Radiation Biology with laser-driven radiations

Speaker: G.A.P. Cirrone (INFN-LNS)

12 Reverse Beam Engineering with Neural Surrogates: From LWFA Optimization to Geant4 Integration

Speaker: Alberto Sciuto (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

13 Optimization of the stack detector array - PRAGUE based on the Fermi-Eyges theory

Speaker: Alma Kurmanova (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14 TBD

Speaker: Dr Sahar Arjmand (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15 TBD

Speaker: Cristiana Alberghina (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16 TBD

Speaker: Gaia Pucci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17 TBD

Speaker: Filippo Torrisi (University of Catania)