Education
Rosa Brancaccio is graduated in Physics in 1999 with a thesis work on Artificial Intelligence applied to Medicine (automated detection and classification of micro-calcification in mammography). She got her PhD in 2004 with a work concerning the development of a new dosimeter for IORT (Intra Operative Radiation Therapy).
Career
She is now technician at the Department of Physics and Astronomy (DIFA), University of Bologna. She is also management responsible of specialized laboratories and technical manager of the research unit laboratory of DIFA.
She has taught Physics and Chemistry at the Fine Arts Academy of Bologna (Institute of Cultural Heritage Restoration) for seven years.
She currently focuses her researches mainly on developing tomographic reconstruction algorithms with high performance computing. She collaborates since 1998 with the INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics), since 2012 with Enrico Fermi Center for Study and Research and since 2015 she is a member of TTLAB (INFN Laboratory for Technology Transfer)
In 2008 Rosa received the award by the Italian Association for Archeometry (AIAR) for a young researcher who has distinguished himself in Archeometry Sciences. She is co-author of three patents and of over 90 publications, 27 of them in international journals.