Danilo Maziero, PhD

Danilo Maziero, PhD, has a background in magnetic resonance imaging and clinical radiation therapy. He completed his bachelor's degree at the University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil in 2012. Dr. Maziero completed his PhD in Physics Applied to Medicine and Biology at the same institution in 2016. His dissertation focused on localizing and studying epileptogenic sources in patients with refractory epilepsy through multimodal techniques, particularly simultaneous EEG-fMRI. During his doctoral studies, Dr. Maziero was a visiting PhD student at University College London from 2014 to 2015 where he became interested in improving EEG and MRI data quality of motion-affected acquisitions. After completing his PhD, Dr. Maziero joined the University of Hawaii (2016-2020) as a postdoctoral associate, where he worked on developing fast and motion-robust MRI sequences for imaging the brain. He continued his research at the University of Miami from 2020 to 2022, working on multiparametric MRI sequences to assess glioblastoma responses to radiotherapy using a 0.35T MRI-LINAC. Dr. Maziero completed a residency in therapeutic Medical Physics at the University of California, San Diego in 2024. 

Dr. Maziero clinical interests are to improve the robustness of patient care workflows for external beam radiotherapy and low and high dose rate brachytherapy. His translational research is focused on increasing the accessibility and efficacy of multiparametric MRI for clinical applications such as functional adaptive radiotherapy treatment planning and tumor response evaluation. Dr. Maziero is particularly interested in studying different MRI contrast mechanisms in anatomical sites that are challenging to image due to short relaxation times and/or affected by motion such as bones/cartilages and the chest/abdomen, respectively.