**About the Editors**

### **Francesca Ballarini**

Following her graduation in Biomedical Physics (1997) and several post-doc positions, including a fellowship provided by the University of Houston (TX, USA), Francesca Ballarini became permanent researcher (2005) and then Associate Professor (2017) at the University of Pavia (Italy), where she teaches basic and applied Physics and leads the Computational Radiobiology group, working on modelling/simulating the effects of ionizing radiation with applications in cancer therapy and space radiation protection. This research activity has been carried out in the framework of many research projects, mainly funded by the European Community, the Italian Ministry of University and Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics.

Until now, FB published 110 articles in peer-reviewed international journals (Scopus h-index=31), delivered more than 60 conference presentations (39 of which by invitation), organized several conferences and supervised 40 thesis works. She is Editor or Guest Editor of 7 peer-reviewed international journals and she was peer-reviewer for several agencies, including the Swedish Space Board and the French Institute for Health. Furthermore, she was President of the Radiation Research Italian Society (2021–22) and member of the Board of Councillors of IARR-International Association for Radiation Research, and she is currently a member of the Technical Scientific Committee of the Applied Nuclear Energy Laboratory of the University of Pavia.

### **Mario Pietro Carante**

Mario Carante is a researcher in Applied Physics at the University of Pavia, Italy. He obtained his M.Sc. title in Physics in 2013 and his PhD in Applied Physics in 2017. His research activity is focused on the theoretical study and modelization of the biological effects of radiation, in view of applications in the field of innovative cancer radiotherapy and space radiation protection. He has authored about 40 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, he has delivered more than 20 conference presentations and he is currently professor for several courses at the University of Pavia.
