Riccardo Cicchi

Riccardo Cicchi received the master’s degree in physics from the University of Florence, in 2003, working on skeletal muscle myosin mechanics using optical trapping and high-resolution imaging techniques, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Florence, in 2007, with a thesis titled “Non-linear imaging of human skin.” He is currently a Researcher with the National Institute of Optics–National Research Council of Italy, where he coordinates the Biomedical Optics group, and he is also associated with the European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), where he has served as a Reference Person for the EU-H2020 project PICCOLO. He is also a Lecturer of “Optical methods in biology” within the Master Course on Molecular Biotechnology, University of Florence. His research interests include multiphoton microscopy imaging of human skin tissue, in particular functional imaging of skin cancer and the study of collagen using SHG microscopy. His research interests also include non-linear imaging and spectroscopy of human tissues such as cornea, bladder, colon, and brain. He has authored over 120 scientific publications (source: ISI-Web of Science) that have received more than 1600 citations, and holds three patents. His research team develops, in collaboration with various medical experts, optical methods for diagnostics on biological tissues, using a microscopic approach for tissue diagnostics and pathological evaluation, and a spectroscopic approach with fiber optic sensors for clinical applications.