Federica Zanca

Federica Zanca received her Master in Physics at Ferrara University, Italy, in 1997. After having obtained a further Master in Science, Technology and Management at the same university, she joined Shell (Italy) in 1998 as a research physicist. She moved to Belgium for a research fellowship at the VUB (Brussels, Belgium), in 1999. As from August 2000, she was X-ray Product Specialist at GE Medical Systems, (Milan, Italy). She returned to Belgium and became R&D Project Manager at the Department of Physics and Concept Engineer in Proton Therapy for Ion Beam Applications (IBA, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) in 2003. As from 2004, she works as clinical medical physicist in Radiology Department at the University Hospitals Leuven, (Leuven, Belgium). She obtained a master-after-master in Medical Radiation Physics (2005) and a PhD in Biomedical Science at the Faculty of Medicine of the KUL (2009). Since October 2012 she is Professor at the Department of Imaging and Pathology of the KU Leuven.