Ane Appelt is a qualified clinical medical physicist in the radiotherapy department at St James's University Hospital, Leeds and an associate professor at the University of Leeds. She is involved in numerous clinical trials of new radiotherapy treatment strategies and is currently leading a multicentre, competitively funded, randomised dose-escalation trial. She is principal investigator or co-investigator on active grants worth over £5.2 million.
Her research interests include: Quantitative radiation oncology; Optimisation of radiotherapy for anorectal and lung cancer patients and for re-irradiation; Innovative treatment strategies for rectal cancer, including non-surgical treatment & Design and conduct of clinical trials.
Lorenzo Nicola Mazzoni is a medical physics expert and radiation protection expert currently working at the Medical Physics Unit of Prato-Pistoia, AUSL Toscana Centro, in Italy. He started his research in statistical mechanics applied to protein models, and then moved to the field of medical physics, dealing with quantitative medical imaging, particularly MRI, and radiation protection in hospital settings.
He is a lecturer in various safety and training courses and has been teaching the master's program in magnetic resonance at the University of Florence for many years. He is currently a member of the EFOMP European and International Matter committee, a member of the ECMP 2024 scientific committee, the EFOMP representative to the ICRP, and a member of the ICRP TG 127.