Katia Parodi, born in in Genoa, Italy, is a distinguished physicist specializing in medical physics. She earned her Laurea degree in physics from the University of Genoa and completed her Ph.D. at the Technical University of Dresden in 2004. Her doctoral research, conducted at the nowadays Helmholtz Center Dresden Rossendorf, was recognized with the Christoph-Schmelzer Prize. Following her Ph.D., Parodi pursued postdoctoral work at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. In 2006, she returned to Germany as a group leader at the Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center, where she also achieved her habilitation in 2009. Since 2012, Parodi has been a professor and chair of medical physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Her research focuses on advancing image-guided precision ion therapy for both preclinical and clinical applications. In 2017, she served as president of the German Society for Medical Physics. In 2021, she was appointed Editor-in-Chief of "Physics in Medicine and Biology," and in 2024, she was honored as a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. She was elected in 2024, Ambassador of Genoa in the Word.