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A team of medical doctors, physicists, engineers and other professionals with long experience and know-how in cancer treatments, particle accelerators and detectors, together with specialists in international development, communication, marketing, finance, and administration.

Matti Aapro President

Matti Aapro - President - is member of the Board of Directors of the Genolier Cancer Center in Switzerland and President of Sharing Progress in Cancer Care (SPCC) and All.Can. He was formerly President of the European Cancer Organization (2020-2021), Past Chair of the Medical and Radiation Therapy Department at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan and Past Executive Board member of the European School of Oncology (ESO).

Ugo Amaldi Founding Member and Scientific Director

Ugo Amaldi - Founding Member and Scientific Director - as CERN senior research scientist has made important contributions to particle physics and – as promoter of TERA Foundation (Italy), Professor in Medical Physics (Milan) and Distinguished Affiliated Professor at TUM (Munich) – has worked for 30 years at the frontier of cancer therapy with hadron beams. He is Doctor honoris causa of the Universities of Helsinki, Lyon, Uppsala, and Valencia, TERA President and CNAO President Emeritus. .

Frederick Bordry Board Member

Frederick Bordry – Board Member – joined CERN in 1986, where he has held scientific and management positions. From 2014 to 2020 he was Director for Accelerators and Technology. As a long-time advocate for sustainability in energy, science, and medical applications of accelerators, he is at present scientific advisor to several institutions, industries, and start-ups.

Saverio Braccini Secretary General

Saverio Braccini – Secretary General – has been Technical Director of TERA and at present is Professor of experimental physics at the University of Bern and Chief of the Medical Applications of Particle Physics research group at the Bern medical cyclotron of Inselspital, an innovative facility for radioisotope production and multidisciplinary research.

Marta Guglielmetti Board member

Marta Guglielmetti – Board member – has an over 25 years’ experience as a senior executive championing sustainability and inclusiveness. She has held various leadership positions in the United Nations, and philanthropic organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, engaging with large corporations and major global health stakeholders.

Gaudenzio Vanolo Board Member

Gaudenzio Vanolo – Board Member – is Secretary General of TERA Foundation. In this role he has been working for more than 40 years in the dissemination of scientific culture to the general public, in the organization of activities related to cancer care with particle beams, in fund raising, and in the nutrition of cancer patients, as leader of the Food Bank in Oncology project.

Mathias Widmer Project Engineer

Mathias Widmer - Project Engineer - is a Mechanical Engineer with expertise in aerospace, railway, and high precision fluid mechanics systems. He focuses on precision with robust yet lightweight design at Tera- Care, is also professor at the Technical School of Geneva (HES) and is working on the new efficient nozzle design of the Geneva fountain.

Ruiliang Lin Project Engineer

Ruiliang Lin - Project Engineer - is a robotics engineer with experience in medical devices and space robotics . With extensive expertise in mechatronics design and motor control, he has contributed to various research projects in both private and academic settings, including the design of lower-limb rehabilitation exoskeletons, space-rated robotic arms, and underwater autonomous probes. He provides specialized knowledge in electronics and mechatronics design.

Elena Benedetto Technical Director

Elena Benedetto – Technical Director – has been CERN staff and was TERA Technical Director. With her 20 years’ experience in particle accelerators, she designs novel and compact accelerators to improve performances, reduce costs and extend the access to therapy with beams of carbon and other light ions. She is also involved in technology and innovation activities in Switzerland. Elena is also leading the personnel that TERA keeps at CERN to work on hadron therapy.

Eleonora De Cata Administrative Manager

Eleonora De Cata – Administrative Manager – has a PhD in Economics and, having worked for over 10 years both in Corporate and non-profit organizations linked to public health and research, provides ancillary work of quality for the needs of the Foundation. She is primarily responsible for Finance, Administration, Tax and Accounting.

Ariana Cassar PhD Student

Ariana Cassar – PhD Student – is an Electrical Engineer with expertise in electrical systems and process automation. She brings her experience from industry together with her background in particle accelerators to research techniques and solutions for optimization of treatment time and energy efficiency of ion medical accelerators to achieve a more sustainable and economically feasible machine.

Luca Garolfi Accelerator Physicist

Luca Garolfi – Accelerator Physicist - Ph.D. in particle accelerator science with sustained professional experience in accelerator components design, 3D numerical simulations, particle tracking, prototyping, experimental tests, and validation. He primarily works as a beam physicist and systems engineer, modelling various types of magnets, implementing beam optics tracking for both linear and circular acc and circular accelerators. He works as TERA seconded mandated worker into CERN premises.

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