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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Villa, I., Perego, J., Dhamo, L., Landella, A., Bezuidenhou, C., Bracco, S., et al. (2025). Tailoring the ultrafast coincidence time resolution in novel highly luminous metascintillators. Intervento presentato a: Symposium P: Novel materials and devices for photon and ionizing radiation detection EMRS 2025, Strasbourg, Francia. Detail

  • Villa, I., Perego, J., Dhamo, L., Landella, A., Bezuidenhou, C., Bracco, S., et al. (2025). Tailoring the ultrafast coincidence time resolution in novel highly luminous metascintillators. Intervento presentato a: FISMAT 2025 - July 7-11, 2025, Venezia, Italia. Detail

  • Kukushkina, A., Secchi, V., Colombo, A., Colombo, M., Villa, I., Monguzzi, A. (2025). Dye-loaded hybrid core-shell gold nanoparticles for sensitized singlet oxygen production in radiotherapy. COLLOIDS AND SURFACES. B, BIOINTERFACES, 256(Part 1 (December 2025)) [10.1016/j.colsurfb.2025.115022]. 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 universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2024 - 2025
  • Ricercatore universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2022 - 2024