Curriculum Vitae
Nicola Belcari started his research activity in the field of experimental Nuclear Physics at the INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics) national laboratory of Legnaro, Italy. He received the degree in Physics from the University of Pisa in 1999. Since 2000 he has been conducting his research activity in the field of Medical Physics, and particularly in the development of new imaging detectors for molecular and morphological imaging on small animals and in the use of PET for dose monitoring in hadrontherapy. He received his PhD in Applied Physics in 2003. Since 2007 he is a researcher of the Department of Physics of the University of Pisa and since 2010 he is a staff Assistant Professor. His present research is oriented to the development of dedicated multi modality instrumentation for high-resolution imaging with a stronger focus on pre-clinical PET/CT and brain-dedicated PET/MRI systems. He is also an expert of performance assessment of small animal PET and SPECT instrumentation. He is author/co-author of about 80 papers on international journals on Nuclear Physics and Medical Physics. He is a member of the Physics Committee of European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM).

Research Interests
- Molecular imaging instrumentation.