Team

Saverio Farsoni received the Master Degree in Computer and Automation Engineering and the Ph.D. in Science of Engineering at the University of Ferrara, Italy. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, Italy where he holds the course of Control of Robotic Systems. His main research activities are focused on Motion Planning and Control of Industrial and Surgical Robots, Control Systems. Further activities include the design and development of simulation and training devices for medical personnel. 

Marcello Bonfè received the Master Degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Ferrara in 1998 and the PhD in Information Engineering from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 2003. He is currently Associate Professor in Systems Engineering at the University of Ferrara. The research activity of Marcello Bonfè is focused on motion planning and control for robotics, design of electrical drives, automatic Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI). Marcello Bonfè has participated to the EU funded projects on surgical robotics I-SUR (Intelligent Surgical Robotics) and SARAS (Smart Autonomous Robotic Assistant Surgeon) and has been scientific supervisor of several industrial research and technology transfer projects, with partners producing robots and packaging machines.

Jacopo Rizzi

Marco Gavanelli is Associate Professor at the department of Engineering of Ferrara University (Italy). He graduated in Computer Science Engineering in 1998 in University of Bologna, and obtained his PhD from University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia in 2002. He has been coordinator of the Italian interest group on Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning (RCRA) and secretary of the Italian Association for Logic Programming (GULP). He is currently coordinator of 1 Bachelor and two Masters in Engineering. His research interests span over Artificial Intelligence, Constraint Programming and Logic Programming. He has more than 100 publications on journal, conferences and workshops. He participated to various national and European projects, and was coordinator of the UniFE unit in the STREP-FP7 project "ePolicy".

Anselmo Pagani is a PhD student in Translational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology at the University of Ferrara, Italy. His thesis is about the monitoring of the cerebral venous return in microgravity conditions. During his experience in the Vascular Disease Centre he become skilled in the Ultrasound Scanning and took part of the medical unit of the AUROVAS team. Further activities include the research in exercise therapy for Venous and lymphatic diseases and he holds a series of seminars as part of the "Training theory and methodology" course in the last year of the Bachelor's degree in Sport Science.

Paolo Zamboni, MD, Full Professor of Vascular Surgery, Director School of Vascular Surgery, University of Ferrara (Italy).

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