Special Session 14

SPECIAL SESSION #14

Sustainable human space exploration: quantification and mitigation of radiation risk

Mariagabriella Pugliese

Department of Physics "E. Pancini" University of Naples Federico II, Italy

• mariagabriella.pugliese@unina.it

Francesca Ballarini

University of Pavia, Italy

• francesca.ballarini@unipv.it

This Special Session will be dedicated ti the study of the radiobiological effect due to exposure to space radiation both on the International Space Station (ISS), on Mars and on the Moon. The session aims to contribute to the in depht analysis of the quantification and possible mitigation of radiaton risk for astronauts , and in general for the humans in Space.

Mariagabriella Pugliese, is Associate Professor at the University of Naples Federico II, Her research field is environmental radioactivity and radiation protection, both in the medical, environmental and space fields. She is the head of the Radioactivity Laboratory LaRa of the Department of Physics and Scientific Manager of the Federico II University's Radiation Protection. In the radiation space field, MP has had responsibilities in projects of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and has collaborated in research groups of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA. She is currently a member of the ASI "Radiations" Working Group.
FB published more than 180 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and was President of the Italian Society for Radiation Research from 2017 to 2021.

Francesca Ballarini, is Associate Professor at the University of Pavia, Italy, where she leads the Computational Radiobiology group, mainly working on the modelling of radiation-induced biological effects with applications both in cancer hadrontherapy and in space research; in particular, she is the main author of the BIANCA model. FB published more than 170 articles (112 in peer-reviewed international journals), delivered more than 60 presentations (38 by invitation), is Editor of "Frontiers in Oncology" and "AIMS biophysics" and organized several conferences. Furthermore, she was member of the IARR Board of Councillors, she was President of the Italian Society for Radiation Research and she is now President of the Applied Nuclear Energy Laboratory of the University of Pavia.