Massimo Pinto
KEYNOTE
Metrology Institutes in Italy: from national standards to services offered to support sustainability
Massimo Pinto
INMRI-ENEA, Italy
ABSTRACT
This lecture will cover Italy's metrology organization, from national institutes to the accreditation system with ACCREDIA. Under the 1999 Mutual Recognition Agreement, Italy's Primary Metrology Institutes include INRiM in Turin, focusing on fundamental SI units, and ENEA-INMRI in Rome, specializing in quantities related to measurements of ionizing radiation. The role of both NMIs underpins sustainability by enabling accurate measurements. Focusing on ionizing radiation, for example, accurate measurements in environmental protection can guarantee the safe management of radioactive waste and contamination monitoring. Public health can also be sustained by accurate measurements with medical radiation devices both in diagnostic radiology and in the therapeutic uses of ionizing radiation.
Both INRiM and ENEA-INMRI provide traceability to national standards through calibrations and conduct inter-laboratory comparison campaigns to demonstrate competence. ENEA-INMRI's specialized focus directly enables the precise measurements that are essential for environmental stewardship, public health, and the advancement of sustainable technologies. Both are also active in offering inter-laboratory comparison campaigns, a necessary tool to demonstrate competence, and some recent notable examples will be described.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Massimo Pinto received his BSc degree in Physics in 1998 from the University of Naples Federico II and his PhD in Physics and Oncology in 2002, jointly from University College London and the Gray Laboratory Cancer Research Trust. His experience in metrology has been in developing and maintaining national standards of air kerma and absorbed dose to water for radiation dosimetry, and acting as provider of ILCs in Italy. He is the national contact person for Italy in EURAMET’s Technical Committee on Ionising Radiation and Deputy Chair of the Consultative Committee on Ionizing Radiation of the BIPM. He has been the director of ENEA-INMRI since December 2024.
