Dr. Marco Pullia is presently Director of the Research and Development Department of the CNAO Foundation in Pavia, Italy. He received his degree in physics at the University of Milan, Italy in 1992 and earned his Ph.D. degree in physics at the Universtiy Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in Villeurbanne, France in 1999. His research interests are in the improvement of hadrontherapy, both on the side of accelerator development and on the side of the improvement of treatment delivery and verification.