VILLA IRENE

Role
Assistant Professor  
Academic disciplines
Experimental Physics of Matter and Applications (PHYS-03/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS OF MATTER AND APPLICATIONS (02/PHYS-03)
Office phone
Room:
  • U05, Floor: 1, Room: 1102

Publications

  • Dhamo, L., Perego, J., Villa, I., Bezuidenhout, C., Mattei, I., Landella, A., et al. (2026). Ultrafast scintillating metal-organic framework films. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 17(1) [10.1038/s41467-026-68546-6]. Detail

  • Cova, F., Perego, J., Joarder, B., Yanai, N., Vedda, A., Bracco, S., et al. (2026). Structural and Compositional Effects on the Scintillation Properties of Fast Emitting Metal‐Organic Frameworks. ADVANCED SCIENCE [10.1002/advs.75224]. Detail

  • Secchi, V., Villa, I., Sala, S., Colombo, A., Garbujo, S., Colombo, M., et al. (2026). Engineered Energy-Harvesting Hybrid Nanoscintillators for Enhanced Cancer Radiotherapy. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 18(10), 14822-14831 [10.1021/acsami.6c02336]. Detail

  • Sala, M., Orfano, M., Secchi, V., Mattei, I., Pianta, N., Zabloudil, V., et al. (2025). Highly Luminous Scintillating Nanocomposites Enable Ultrafast Time Coincidence Resolution for γ-rays Detection with Heterostructured Multilayer Scintillators. ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 35(17 (April 25, 2025)) [10.1002/adfm.202421434]. Detail

  • Villa, I., Crapanzano, R., Mostoni, S., Bulin, A., D'Arienzo, M., Di Credico, B., et al. (2025). The role of energy deposition on the luminescence sensitization in porphyrin-functionalized SiO2/ZnO nanoparticles under X-ray excitation. NANOSCALE ADVANCES, 7(5), 1464-1474 [10.1039/d4na00640b]. Detail

Research projects

Engineered Metascintillators for high resolution and low dose ToF-PET imaging - MetaPET
Year: 2025
Call: FAQC 2025 - seconda finestra
Grantors: Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA
LuMIminesceNt scintillating hEterostructures foR adVanced medical imAaging (MINERVA)-PNRR per la Missione 4, componente 2 - Avviso 247/2022
Year: 2022
Call: PNRR - Missione 4 “Istruzione e Ricerca” - Componente 2 “Dalla Ricerca all'Impresa” - Investimento 1.2 “Finanziamento di progetti presentati da giovani ricercatori”
Grantors: MINISTERO DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA (MUR)

Awards

Research and teaching assignments

  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2024 - 2025
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2022 - 2024