Nicola Toschi

Full Professor and Principal Investigator

PHYS-06/A - Fisica per le scienze della vita, l'ambiente e i beni culturali

toschi@med.uniroma2.it

+39 06 72596008

Biography

Nicola Toschi is a Full Professor in Medical Physics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and Research Staff and Faculty at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (Harvard Medical School).

He has previously worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company, as a facilitator for the United Nations convention on Climate Change, with the Italian National Television (RAI) and as a project coordinator with AMREF.

His research is interdisciplinary, with a focus on scientific and technological solutions for the deployment of advanced physical and mathematical techniques in order to extract quantitative information of investigative, diagnostic and prognostic value in a clinical context.

He is a senior member of the IEEE society, an active member of ISMRM and OHBM, a founding member of the Alzheimer’s Precision Medicine Initiative (AMPI) a member of the Technical Committee on Cardiopulmonary Systems.

Academic Qualifications

  • B.Sc. Physics (Imperial College, London)
  • M.Sc. Applied Mathematics (ST. Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK),
  • MSc. Physics (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
  • PhD Natural Sciences (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, max Planck Institute of Psychiatry)
  • Specialization School in Medical Physics (University of Rome Tor Vergata).

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Ultrasound-Assisted multimodal neuromodulation via nanosystems; Journal of Nanobiotechnology; December 2026; DOI: 10.1186/s12951-026-04205-8
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R&B – rhythm and brain: Cross-subject decoding of music from human brain activity; Neural Networks; November 2026; DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109195
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A new in silico model to precisely design focused ultrasound brain therapies; Medical Physics; July 2026; DOI: 10.1002/mp.70520
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Therapeutic ultrasound for the treatment of demyelinating diseases; Progress in Neurobiology; June 2026; DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2026.102913
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Magnetite nanodiscs as vortex-enhanced MRI contrast agents: a novel approach in medical imaging; Nanoscale Advances; 5 May 2026; DOI: 10.1039/d5na01089f
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Last 5 articles (PubMed)

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  • Bio-integrated μBots with overtone ultrawideband magnetoelectric antennas for wireless telemetry
    on 1 July 2026

    Implantable and wearable devices require antennas that are both miniaturized and efficient, yet conventional designs are constrained by narrow bandwidth and orientation sensitivity. We report overtone ultrawideband magnetoelectric (OUWB-ME) antennas that exploit higher-order acoustic modes in polished silicon substrates to achieve a 22.6-gigahertz -10-decibel bandwidth and overtone capability in the 3- to 4-gigahertz range. Packaged into "μBots," these magnetoelectric heterostructures bonded...

  • A new in silico model to precisely design focused ultrasound brain therapies
    on 24 June 2026

    CONCLUSIONS: MODFUS demonstrates the influence of incorporating detailed tissue heterogeneity on simulation outcomes, including pressure distribution and potential BBB exposure volume. These results highlight the importance of realistic soft tissue modeling and stereotaxic probe alignment for safe and effective FUS treatment planning. The study serves as a preliminary proof-of-concept. Future studies incorporating in vivo experiments will be required to quantify the accuracy of this approach.

  • Ex vivo localization of wireless implantable microdevice using high-resolution 3D imaging techniques
    on 18 June 2026

    The CROSSBRAIN EU project aims to address the heterogeneous nature of brain pathologies by developing wireless implantable microbots (µBots, planned dimensions 100 × 100 × 100 μm³) for highly localized neuromodulation. These devices are designed to precisely modulate brain activity with minimal invasiveness, enabling targeted resolution of specific spatiotemporal events, capabilities not currently achieved by existing neuromodulation technologies. A crucial step involves visualizing and ensuring...

  • R&B - rhythm and brain: Cross-subject decoding of music from human brain activity
    on 3 June 2026

    Music is a universal phenomenon that influences human experiences across cultures. We investigate whether music can be decoded from human brain activity measured with fMRI, by modeling mappings between neural data and latent representations of musical stimuli. Our approach integrates functional and anatomical alignment techniques to facilitate cross-subject decoding. Starting from the GTZan fMRI dataset, where five participants listened to 540 musical tracks from 10 genres, we used the CLAP...

  • Ultrasound-Assisted multimodal neuromodulation via nanosystems
    on 19 April 2026

    Neuromodulation techniques have emerged as transformative tools for treating several neurological and psychiatric disorders, offering alternatives to traditional pharmacological approaches often hindered by the blood-brain barrier and off-target effects. While conventional modalities like deep brain stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and optogenetics have shown promise, they each face limitations in invasiveness, spatial resolution, or clinical applicability. In recent years,...