Riccardo Ciolini

Prof. Riccardo Ciolini

Current position: Associate Professor ING-IND/20.
Born in Prato, Italy, on January 3rd, 1973.
Nationality: Italian.

Working address:
University of Pisa – Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering
Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 2
56126 Pisa (Italy)
Phone: +39 050 2218026
Email: riccardo.ciolini@unipi.it
Orcid: 0000-0001-7535-8822

WORK EXPERIENCE
• April 2018 – ongoing: Associate Professor (ING-IND/20, "Nuclear Measurements and Instrumentation"), University of Pisa.
• December 2011 – March 2018: Assistant Professor (ING-IND/20, "Nuclear Measurements and Instrumentation"), University of Pisa.
• March 2008 – March 2011: Research fellowship (nuclear measurements and instrumentation field), University of Pisa.
• July 2007 – December 2007: First class engineer (electrical measurements around electromagnetic launchers field), ISL (French German Research Institute of Saint-Louis), France.
• November 2001 – June 2007: Research fellowships (nuclear measurements and instrumentation field), University of Pisa.

DIDACTIC ACTIVITY
• Teacher of the following courses of the Master degree in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Pisa: “Physical principles of the nuclear engineering” and “Radiation Protection”.
• Teacher for the laboratory sessions of the courses "Nuclear measurements" (Master degree in Nuclear Engineering) and "Bioengineering of radiations" (Master degree in Biomedical Engineering) at the University of Pisa.

EDUCATION
• October 2022: PhD in Nuclear Engineering (Safety of Nuclear Power Plants) at the University of Pisa, Department of Nuclear, Mechanical and Production Engineering. Title of the thesis: “Atomistic simulation of the grain boundary segregation in metallic alloys”.
• March 1998: Master Degree in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Pisa. Title of the thesis: “A boundary element method in neutron transport theory in a quasi-diffusive approximation”.
• January 2023: 1st level international Master Course on "Protection Against CBRNe events (Base level)", academic year 2019/2020-2020/2021.

SCIENTIFIC / ACADEMIC POSITIONS - AFFILIATIONS
• President of the Curriculum in “Nuclear Engineering and Industrial Safety” of the Ph. D. Course in Industrial Engineering at the University of Pisa (since November 2019).
• Responsible of research and didactic activity of the Nuclear Measurements Laboratory of the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering of the University of Pisa.
• Responsible for the quality management system, according to the ISO 9001 standard, for dosimetric and radiometric measurements of the Nuclear Measurements Laboratory of the University of Pisa.
• Scientific director of the Dosimetry service of the University of Pisa.
• Qualification as Radiation Protection Expert, Level 3, N. 858, in the Italian Ministry of Labour list.
• Assignment of the task of Radiation Protection Expert for the physical surveillance (second level) of the structures of the University of Pisa (since January 2021).
• Affiliations to the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Pisa section (since January 2017).
• Reviewer for several international scientific journals.

MAIN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
• Neutron dosimetry and spectrometry;
• Development of new detectors and dosimeters;
• Gamma and beta personal and environmental dosimetry;
• Environmental radioactive measurements;
• Radiation protection and radiation shielding;
• Decommissioning of nuclear power plants and nuclear waste treatment.

PUBLICATIONS
• Publications indexed in Scopus can be found at the following link: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6507140669
• A complete list of publications can be found at the following link: https://arpi.unipi.it/cris/rp/rp13130