The Organisers

Francesca Cordella

Francesca Cordella is Assistant Professor at the Unit of Advanced Robotics and Human-centred Technologies - Creo Lab at Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome. She received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. in Computer and Automation Engineering both from the University of Naples Federico II. In 2011, she was visiting student at the Institut fur Robotik und Mechatronik, Deutsche Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR). Until June 2013 she has been Assistant Researcher at the University of Naples Federico II. From 2013 to 2018 she was Assistant Researcher and from November 2018 she is Assistant Professor both in the Creo Lab at Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome. Her research interests are mainly in the field of biomechanics, biomedical robotics and human-machine interfaces. She is member of the Technical Program Committee and associate editor for several International Conferences and Workshops. She is guest Editor of several journals and Associate editor for the journal Applied Bionics and Biomechanics. Since 2015 she is an expert and reviewer for the European Commission within H2020- ICT research program. She has been involved in several EU-funded and national projects in her fields of interest. She is Project Manager for the National Project RehabRobo@Work “Bio-cooperative robotic system for upper-limb rehabilitation in working environments” and co-PI of the national project PPR AS 1/3 “Implantable system for the control of upper limb prostheses with invasive neural interfaces and wireless communication”.

Stefano Mazzoleni

Stefano Mazzoleni received the University degree (Laurea) in Computer Engineering from the University of Pisa (Italy) in 2002 and the Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Genoa (Italy) in 2007. From May 2015 to March 2020 he was Assistant Professor at the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa (Italy). Currently he is tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy) and Research Affiliate at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa. In 2005 he received the “Student Travel Award” at the IEEE 9th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics in Chicago, USA. From January 2011 to March 2020 he was Head of the joint “Rehabilitation Bioengineering Laboratory” between Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and “Auxilium Vitae” Rehabilitation Centre in Volterra (Italy). His research interests include rehabilitation robotics, bioengineering, human-machine interfaces, motor control, motor recovery, human-robot interaction, e-health applications. He is author of more than 120 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He is member of several Editorial Boards of international scientific journals in the fields of robotics, rehabilitation, bioengineering and automation. He is member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS), IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), IEEE Brain Community, Italian Society of Neurological Rehabilitation (SIRN), Bioengineering National Group (GNB) and National Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (I-RIM). He is member of research group in Neurobioethics coordinated by the Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Italy. Since 2012 he has been serving as co-chair in the IEEE/RAS Technical Committee on “Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics”. He was program co-chair of the International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation 2018 which was held in Pisa from October 16th to October 20th 2018. In December 2018 he received the “Innovation Business Award” promoted by the Young Innovators National Association under the category “Robotics” as scientific coordinator of the RISE research project, funded by INAIL, aimed to develop an innovative robotic wheelchair for verticalisation and mobility of persons affected by severe lower limbs impairments. He has served as member of the Academic Senate of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna from May 2019 to March 2020.

Gionata Salvietti

Gionata Salvietti received the M.S. degree in Robotics and Automation and the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Siena, Siena, Italy, in 2009 and 2012, respectively. He was a post-doc researcher with the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia from 2012 to 2015. He was Visiting Researcher with the DLR Institute for Robotic and Mechatronics, in 2012 and a Visiting Student with TAMS Group, University of Hamburg, in 2008. He is currently Assistant Professor (RTD-B) at Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Haptics and Robotics and Automation Letters from 2020. He is currently the vice-responsible of the University of Siena macronode of the Artes4.0 competence center on collaborative robotics. He is currently the unit coordinator for the University of Siena in the Erasmus+ Project "AugmentedWearEdu". He his member of the Scientific Board for the First Level Master in "Industry 4.0 design". His research interests are robotic and human grasping, collaborative robotics, assistive devices, and haptics.

Antonio Frisoli

Antonio Frisoli (Eng., PhD) is Full Professor of Engineering Mechanics and Robotics at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, where he leads the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) area (humanrobotinteraction.percro.org/) at PERCRO laboratory. He received his PhD (2002) with honors in Industrial and Information Engineering from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy and the MSc (1998) in Mechanical Engineering, minor Robotics, from University of Pisa-Italy and in Industrial Engineering from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (1998) as honor student in engineering. He is currently the responsible of the Scuola Sant'Anna macronode of the Artes4.0 competence center on collaborative robotics. He is IEEE senior member, associate editor for IEEE Robotics Automation Magazine and covers several scientific and editorial roles in scientific societies, international conferences and journals. His research interest are in the area of collaborative robotics, rehabilitation robotics, wearable robotics and exoskeletons, multimodal interaction and haptics, wearable devices and virtual reality. He is very active in technology transfer and open innovation, and has been the co-founder of two spin-off Wearable Robotics srl, a leading company in the area of exoskeletons, and Next Generation Robotics srl, which is commercializing UV disinfection robots.

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