Michele Togno

Michele Togno obtained his MSc at the university Politecnico di Milano, Italy, followed by a PhD in Physics at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany. He worked as R&D physicist for IBA Dosimetry GmbH until 2018, when he moved to Switzerland to join the Center for Proton Therapy (CPT) of Paul Scherrer Institut. In his current position, he is responsible and coordinator of the dosimetry activities at CPT, and participates in the development, clinical integration, commissioning and maintenance of the dosimetry equipment of the center. He is active member of the work party WP2 (Dose assessment, quality assurance, dummy runs, technology inventory) of the European Particle Therapy Network – a task force of ESTRO. Recently, his research work focused on the investigation of dosimeters’ response in ultra-high dose rate (FLASH) proton therapy beams.