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The legacy of Enrico Fermi. The challenges of the future

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research

The Enrico Fermi Research Center - CREF promotes original and high-impact lines of research, based on physical methods, but with a strong interdisciplinary character and in relation to the main problems of the modern knowledge society.

Complexity
Applied Physics
Fundamental Physics
Museum and History of Physics
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third mission

The CREF was born with a dual soul: a research centre and a historical museum. Its aim is to preserve and disseminate the memory of Enrico Fermi and to promote the dissemination and communication of scientific culture.

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Publications, news, press review. For interviews, filming, and press contacts, please write to comunicazione@cref.it

partecipanti dell'edizione Phd Lucca 2024 sulle scale del CREF

luana.testa@cref.it

Research staff

Luana Testa

Since November 2025, I have been a PhD student at Sapienza University of Rome, in collaboration with CREF, focusing on innovative applications of physics in medicine, particularly on developing a new approach for real-time tumor tracking and dose delivery in particle therapy.
I graduated in Physics at Sapienza, in the Fundamental Interactions: Theory and Experiment curriculum. For my Master’s thesis within the FOOT experiment, I worked on the optimization of the vertex detector and the analysis of experimental data and Monte Carlo simulations.

My scientific interest stems from a desire to connect fundamental research in physics with practical applications, contributing to the development of innovative methodologies and tools for medicine.