Staff Profile

2013 - Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering

University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy

Department of Engineering

Final degree mark: 110 / 110 magna cum laude

2016 - Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering

University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy

Department of Engineering

Final degree mark: 110 / 110 magna cum laude

2020 - PhD in Biomedical Engineering

University Campus Bio-medico di Roma, Rome

Department of Engineering

Research Unit of Neurophysiology and Neuroengineering of Human-Technology Interaction

Funded by RESHAPE project (ERC-STG-2015)

Supervisor: Prof. Domenico Formica, Co-supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Di Pino

I am a Biomedical Engineer with a focus on robotics, human-robot interaction and human augmentation.

I use robotics to study human motor control and to augment human abilities with extra robotic limbs.

I have worked on the European project CONBOTS, which aims at designing a new class of robots to physically couple people to facilitate learning and improve efficiency during the training of handwriting and music skills.

I was involved in the European project NIMA “Non-invasive Interface for Movement Augmentation", whose aim is to design, build and test interfaces that allow persons to control artificial limbs in coordination with their natural limbs.

Currently, I am working on my independent research project "How humans can learn to control an extra robotic arm", with which I was awarded the 2-years (December 2023-November 2025) UKIC postdoctoral fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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a.y. 2024/2025

Lecturer in the “Contemporary Case Studies in Biomedical Engineering - MEC8054” module, School of Engineering, Newcastle University, United Kingdom

a.y. 2022/2023

Demonstrator in the “Mechanical Engineering Professional Skills II - MEC2008 - Matlab course” module, School of Engineering, Newcastle University, United Kingdom

a.y. 2021/2022

Instructor in the “Wearable Mechatronic systems for the analysis of Human Behaviour” module, School of Biomedical Engineering, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy.

a.y. 2021/2022 - 2020/2021 - 2019/2020 - 2018/2019 - 2017/2018

Tutor/Teaching Assistant in the “Mechatronics for biomedical systems” module, School of Biomedical Engineering, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy.