After a career as an astrophysicist, Dr. Pietro Procopio has joined the breast cancer research group led by A/Prof Carolyn Nickson, now at The Daffodil Centre.
He is currently involved in a variety of projects including: the development and usage of a clinical model for breast cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment across Australia; evaluation of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of alternative and emerging imaging technologies for breast cancer screening and diagnostic; exploration of risk-factors amid personalised breast cancer screening; mammographic density measurements.
Pietro has expertise in multiple programming languages, software development, computer simulations, physical modelling, statistical analysis, big data processing, and image processing.