Annamaria Mazzone Pagina Personale

Tel +39 0805929146

E-mail annamaria.mazzoneATic.cnr.it
Indirizzo  Istituto di Cristallografia (IC-CNR), Via G. Amendola 122/o, 70125 Bari Italy

Qualifica Attuale : Ricercatore

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Annamaria Mazzone graduated with honor from the University of Bari writing a thesis titled “IR Fourier Transform Spectroscopy and time-resolved photoluminescence from intra-atomic transitions in Fe:InP”. Then she worked as a contractor for the Department of Physics of Bari conducting research activity into transition metal doped detectors and received a grant from the university to continue her activity research as a Ph.D. student. The following year, she received a grant from the National Research Program for Microelectronics and Bioelectronics in collaboration with Fiat, Magneti Marelli, and ST Microelectronics at Università Tor Vergata, Rome to develop automotive sensors. In 2000 she engaged as Staff Researcher at e-learning center of IBM in Bari. She coordinated and participated in several projects for IBM as IT specialist. In 2008 she left IBM to join as staff researcher the Institute of Crystallography with the aim of contributing in developing software for the crystallographic scientific community. In 2010 she got the Ph.D. in Physics carrying out research, which looks at new phasing methods in protein Crystallography under the supervision of Prof. Carmelo Giacovazzo. She is a co-author of the program SIR used in hundreds of laboratories worldwide and SUNBIM, a suite of programs for the supra- and sub-molecular X-ray imaging of nano and biomaterials with SAXS, WAXS, GISAXS and GIWAXS techniques.

In 2016 she joined the n-TOF collaboration and spent a year at CERN where she followed the implementation of a neutron imaging station in the experimental room of the n-TOF facility, and performed with success radiographies of different champions. Actually, she is also involved in the realization of Monte Carlo simulation with the simulation package Geant4. Her principal interest is detector design and radiotherapy application with a proton beam. She supports the CERN n-TOF group in performing experimental simulations.

She is in the organization and scientific committee for the International SIREXPO2014 Workshop and for the SIR2009 Workshop. She also participated in numerous international conferences and was chair of the Micro-symposium MS9 ‘Getting more from your electron density’ @ The 28th Meeting of the European Crystallographic Association Warwick 23-31/8/2013.

She is a co-author of 40 scientific publications in international journals with high impact factor.

H index 10 (Google Scholar)

Research Activity

In recent years, Dr. Mazzone has focused her activities on Monte Carlo simulations by using the software package Geant4. The expertise acquired with Geant4 enabled her to collaborate with international research groups (CERN n-Tof Collaborations). She is interested in design and optimizations of neutron detectors,  simulation for determining fundamental features of a
neutron beam, such as the neutron flux or the γ-ray background. She collaborates on the updating and maintenance of the Geant4 simulations of the neutron spallation target of the n_TOF facility at CERN. Actually, she is interested in Monte Carlo simulation for medical application, in particular, in proton radiotherapy treatment.

Dr. Mazzone research activity is devoted also to the development of innovative theoretical and computational approaches aimed at the structural characterization of materials of varying complexity by using X-ray diffraction data.

In particular she specializes in development of new algorithms and computer programs for protein crystal structure determination by X-ray diffraction, electron density modification methods, molecular replacement and difference electron density modification.

Selected Publications

1. Mazzone, A., Finocchiaro, P., Lo Meo, S., Colonna, N. (2018).
   GEANT4 simulations of a novel 3 He-free thermalization neutron detector.
   Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A:  Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 889,  33-38.
2. LoMeo, S., Cosentino, L., Mazzone, A., Bartolomei, P., Finocchiaro, P. (2017).
   Study of silicon +6LiF thermal neutron detectors: GEANT4 simulations versus real data
   Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 866, 48-57.
3. The n-Tof Collaboration (2016).
   7Be(n,α)4He Reaction and the Cosmological Lithium Problem: Measurement of the Cross Section in a Wide Energy Range at n_TOF at CERN
   Physic Review Letters 117, 152701.
4. Burla, M. C., Caliandro, R., Camalli, M., Carrozzini, B., Cascarano, G. L., Giacovazzo, C., Mallamo M., Mazzone, A., Polidori, G. & Spagna R. (2012).
   SIR2011: a new package for crystal structure determination and refinement.
   Journal of Applied Crystallography, 45, 357-361.
5. Giacovazzo, C., & Mazzone, A. (2012).
   A practical study of the electron-density-map variance.
   Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations of Crystallography, 68, 464-469.
6. Caliandro, R., Carrozzini, B., Cascarano, G.L., Giacovazzo, C., Mazzone, A. & Siliqi, D. (2009). Molecular replacement: The probabilistic approach of the program REMO09 and its applications.
   Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations of Crystallography, 65(6), 512-527.