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Maria Chiara Carrozza
Maria Chiara Carrozza
Maria Chiara Carrozza is an Italian scientist, full professor of bioengineering, she was Minister of Education, University and Research. He was a member of Parliament from 2013 to 2018, from 2007 to 2017 he was Rector of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, she currently coordinates the NeuroRobotics Area in The BioroboticsInstitute at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. Since 2016 she is President of the Italian National Group of Bioengineering. In 2016/17 she has been Chair of the Panel for the interim Evaluation of FET Flagships Program for the European Commission, DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology. She is Partner of the IUVO, a start-up in wearable robotics founded in 2015 as a spin off of The Biorobotics Institute. Since 2015 she serves in the Board of Directors of the Piaggio Spa group. Since 2018 she is Scientific Director of Fondazione Don Gnocchi
Giovanni Morone
Giovanni Morone
Giovanni Morone is Medical Doctor, Senior Researcher at Santa Lucia foundation Istitute for reaserch and heltcare (IRCCS) , Contracted professor at Tor Vergata University and Unicamillus International University of Rome for the course of physiotherapy and Contracted Professor at Sapienza University Master Course Neurorehabilitation. His research interests are motor and functional recovery of Neurological as well as Orthopedics and rheumatologic patients in particular the new technologies for motor and cognitive recovery (robot, virtual reality, feedback and biofeedback, non-invasive brain stimulations tDCS and TMS, Brain Computer Interface-BCI, Functional electrical Stimulation-FES, telemedicine). Other research field are fall risk, Chronic Low Back Pain and cervical myelopathy. He has been formerly involved in a European funded research projects in the 7th Framework Programme (TOBI- tools for brain computer interface). He is formerly involved in several international protocol. For example: RECODE-DCM, an international consensus study being led by the University of Cambridge and AOSpine (cervical myelopathy, 2019). An International Project regarding Disorders of consciousness and tDCS (Prof. Aurore Thibaut and R. Formisano); Campus Biomedico (Prof Di Lazzaro V) Robot therapy and tDCS. Chronic Low Back Pain (LBP) IPD Meta-Analysis Group (from 2012).
Domenico Prattichizzo
Domenico Prattichizzo
Full Professor of Robotics at the University of Siena; Senior Scientist of the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa; Co-founder of WEART, a start-up that develops wearable haptic devices; Fellow of IEEE; Editor In Chief of IEEE Transactions on Haptics; President of Eurohaptics society; Co-founder of the Italian Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines. Human and robotic hands, along with haptic perception and the art of manipulating objects, have polarized his research, which is increasingly oriented towards highly wearable robotics and wearable haptics. Scientific Coordinator of several research projects funded by the European Union, within the Horizon 2020 and FP7 programs. He is the author of more than 500 publications in scientific journals, books and conference proceedings and 9 patents filed, of which 6 were granted.
Robert Riener
Robert Riener
Robert Riener is full professor for Sensory-Motor Systems at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, and full professor of medicine at the University Hospital Balgrist, University of Zurich. His work focuses on the investigation of the sensory-motor interactions between humans and machines and the development of user-cooperative rehabilitation robots, exoskeletons and virtual reality technologies. Riener is the initiator and organizer of the Cybathlon, which was awarded with the European Excellence Award, the Yahoo Sports Technology Award and with two categories of the ReEducation Award. Riener has published more than 400 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles, 20 books and book chapters and he filed 25 patents. He has received 22 personal distinctions and awards. In 2018 Riener obtained the honorary doctoral degree from the University of Basel. Currently, he is visiting professor at SSSA Pisa and Don Gnocchi Riabilitazione Firenze.
Ann-Marie Hughes
Ann-Marie Hughes
Ann-Marie Hughes is a chartered Physiotherapist who specialised in neurorehabilitation. She also holds a PhD in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Southampton and has 15 years experience of stroke user engagement/co-design. She is a CO-I in the UKRI funded UK research hub for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS-UK), and an EU Cost Action co-chair of WG4 CA16116 Wearable Robots specialising in the ethical, legal and societal implications of wearable robots. She is a steering committee member of the International Consortium of Rehabilitation Robotics, and the International Industry Society of Advanced Rehabilitation Technologies, and member of the International Standards Organisation (ISO/IEC SC 62D/JWG 36 –Medical robots for Rehabilitation). Ann-Marie is also a grant panel reviewer for the Research Council of Norway, a registered EU reviewer, and within the UK, is a member of the British Standards Institution (subcommittee CH/62/4) and a reviewer for the UK Stroke Guidelines on rehabilitation robots.
Michelle Johnson
Michelle Johnson
Michelle J. Johnson, Ph.D., is currently Associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a secondary appointment as an Associate professor in Bioengineering and is a member of the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics graduate group. She has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, with an emphasis in mechatronics, robotics, and design, from Stanford University. She completed a NSF-NATO post-doctoral fellowship at the Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems Laboratory at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy. She is currently a Fulbright Scholar for 2020-2021. She directs the Rehabilitation Robotic Research and Design Laboratory located at the Pennsylvania Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine. The lab is also affiliated with the General Robotics Automation Sensing Perception (GRASP) Lab. Dr. Johnson’s lab specializes in the design, development, and therapeutic use of novel, affordable, intelligent robotic assistants for rehabilitation in high and low-resource environments with an emphasis on using robotics and sensors to quantify upper limb motor function in adults and children with brain injury or at risk for brain injury.
Josè Gonzales-Vargas
Josè Gonzales-Vargas
Dr. Jose Gonzalez-Vargas (male) is Innovation and Research Manager of Global Research Division. He obtained a degree in Electronic Engineering Technology Institute of Costa Rica, focused on embedded systems and automatic control. He obtained the master degree in Artificial System Engineering (2009) and a PhD in Medical System Engineering (2012) in the laboratory of Bio-robotics Assistive Devices from Chiba University, Japan. In 2006 he was granted Japan’s MEXT scholarship and in 2010 he was granted the JSPS young research fellowship. In 2013 he was a postdoc fellow researcher in the Research Center for Frontier Medical Engineering in Chiba University, as well as a visiting researcher in the Neuro-rehabilitation department of the Medical University of Göttingen chaired at that time by Prof. Dario Farina. From 2013 – 2017, he worked as a Research Fellow in the Neural Rehabilitation group of the Cajal institute in the Spanish National Research Council in Spain, where he was involved in numerous funded research projects on the topic of Rehabilitation Robotics and Neurorobotics. He is the PI for several ongoing European funded projects (SimBionics, ANDY, INBOTS) and others that have concluded (SPEXOR, SYMBIONICA). Also, he is the PI for German BMBF funded project (INOPRO and PROMPT). Most of these projects were or are about improving and evaluating the man-machine interfaces between humans and wearable robots, as well as research on intelligent prostheses and orthoses.
Eugenio Guglielmelli
Eugenio Guglielmelli
Eugenio Guglielmelli is Full Professor of Bioengineering at Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma where he founded the Research Unit of Biomedical Robotics and Biomicrosystems in 2004 and currently serves as Prorector for Research since 2013. His main research interests are on human-centered design of robotic systems and in their application to healthcare and independent living. He is author/co-author of more than 450 papers published on peer-reviewed international journals, conference proceedings and books, co-inventor of 7 patents, co-founder of 4 spin-off companies. He is Senior Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, for which he served as Vice-President for Publication Activities and in many other roles over the last 25 years. He is the Founding Editor in Chief of the Springer Series on Biosystems and Biorobotics. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the EBRAINS AISBL, of the Evaluation Board of the Federation of Scuola IUSS Pavia, Scuola Normale Superiore and Scuola Superiore Sant’anna of Pisa, and of the Steering Committee of the Italian National Ph.D. Programme on Artificial Intelligence.
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