
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
(Italian National Health Institute)
The Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, ISS) is the main Italian research institute in the biomedical and public health field. It is the technical and scientific body of the Italian National Health Service.
The mission of ISS is the promotion and protection of national and international public health through research, surveillance, regulation, control, prevention, communication, counselling and training. The ISS produces knowledge through research and trials and disseminates scientific knowledge and evidence to decision-makers, professional workers and citizens in order to protect and promote public health.

Emanuela Bortolin
Is a researcher at the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Unit of the ISS Core Facilities. Her expertise focuses on the use of stimulated luminescence (OSL/PSL/TL) and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) techniques in different fields: industrial applications (food irradiation) and dosimetry, with particular focus on emergency situations. The scientific activity has been developed during the last decades under several National and European projects. In particular, the activities concerning the emergency dosimetry have been carried out under the EURADOS network (http://www.eurados.org) through the participation to European projects such as MULTIBIODOSE (MULTI-disciplinary BIODOSimetric tools to manage high scale radiological casualties, www.multibiose.eu) and RENEB (Realizing the European Network of Biological Dosimetry, http://reneb.eu), which involved many European Institutions. She is member of the CEN/TC 275/WG 8 “Irradiated foodstuffs.

Paola Fattibene
Is a senior researcher at the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Unit of the ISS Core Facilities. She has extensive experience in methods of solid state dosimetry, physical and biophysical indicators, and markers of exposure to ionizing radiation, with more than twenty years of experience in the field of dose assessment in emergency exposure situations, retrospective dosimetry, and radiation protection issues. She is a member of the EURADOS Council (2013-), and of the ICRU Report Committee 29 on Retrospective Assessment of Individual Doses for Acute Exposures to Ionizing Radiation (2016-2020). She has led several national and international research projects and is a member of journal editorial boards. She has authored or co-authored about 100 peer-reviewed publications (h-index: 27).

Sara Della Monaca
Is a researcher at the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Unit of the ISS Core Facilities. She has a twelve-year experience in physical techniques mostly used in the field of retrospective dosimetry, in particular Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) and luminescence techniques (Thermoluminescence, TL, and Optically Stimulated Luminescence, OSL), with applications in radiological and nuclear emergency situation as well as in epidemiological studies for protracted exposure situations. She is the vice-chair of the WG10 group of the EURADOS platform and has authored and co-authored about 35 peer reviewed publications (h-index:12).

Maria Cristina Quattrini
Is a laboratory technician at the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Unit of the ISS Core Facilities. Her expertise focuses on the use of stimulated luminescence (OSL/PSL/TL) and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) techniques in different fields: industrial applications (food irradiation), dosimetry (emergency situations and damage by ionizing radiation exposure), study of free radicals in biological systems ex vivo/in vitro.The technical activity has been developed during the last decades under several National and European projects. In particular, the activities concerning the emergency dosimetry have been carried out under the EURADOS network (http://www.eurados.org) through the participation to European projects such as MULTIBIODOSE (MULTI-disciplinary BIODOSimetric tools to manage high scale radiological casualties, www.multibiose.eu) and RENEB (Realizing the European Network of Biological Dosimetry, http://reneb.eu), which involved many European Institutions.
Address for contact
Dr. Antonella Testa
ENEA – Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development