Curriculum and activities
I was born in Verona on the 30th of January 1982. I received a Master Laurea Degree in Computer Engineering in 2007 from the University of Padua. My thesis was titled 'A 3D Virtual Model of the Knee Driven by EMG Signals' and was about the development of a 3D virtual model of the human lower extremity for the purpose of examining how the neuromuscular system controls the muscles and generates the desired movement. I obtained my PhD degree on April 2011 with a thesis titled: A novel neuromuscular human-machine interface for applications in rehabilitation robotics.
From August 2007 to December 2007 I was Junior Research Fellow at ISIB-CNR.
I am now a Research Associate at ISIB-CNR and Post-Doc researcher in Computer Engineering at the IAS-Lab (Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Padua, www.robotics.dei.unipd.it). From April 2010 to June 2010 I visited the Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab at Stanford University (http://nmbl.stanford.edu) under the supervision of Prof. Scott Delp and joined the SimTK project (www.simtk.org) to work on the development of simulation tools and models for biomechanical and robotics research.
From April 2009 to November 2010 I visited the Computational Neuromuscular Modeling Group (www.sseh.uwa.edu.au/research/biomechanics/computational) at the University of Western Australia under the supervision of Prof. David Lloyd where I am worked on the development of a comprehensive and physiologically accurate EMG-driven neuromusculoskeletal model of the human lower extremity.
In November 2010 I co-organized a tutorial on the OpenSim API at the 2nd International Conference on SIMULATION, MODELING, and PROGRAMMING for AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS (http://www.simpar.org/index.php/program/tu.html).
From July to September 2011 I worked at the Musculoskeletal Research Center, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, AUstralia.
I am now at the Department of Neurorehabilitaion Engineering, Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology (BFNT) Göttingen, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany.
Research
Objectives: My objective is to advance the research on EMG-driven neuromusculoskeletal modeling to develop powerful methods for the non-invasive real-time prediction of muscle activation and contraction dynamics in healthy as well as in elderly and disabled individuals. I am motivated to apply neuromusculoskeletal modeling techniques to establish more intuitive human-machine interfaces for the active control of wearable assistive devices. My aim is to use neuromusculoskeletal models to create high-impact and novel robotic-based methodologies to improve the mobility in individuals with physical disabilities. I want to apply findings from this research to address the challenge of autonomous locomotion in humanoid robots.
Scientific Interests: Mainly concerned with real-time neuromusculoskeletal modeling. Strong interests in the development of accurate methods for modeling the mechanisms underlying the neural control of the human musculoskeletal system. Also interested in neuromuscular human-machine interfaces for lower limb orthosis, human motor intention prediction, and simulation of bio-inspired humanoid robots and assistive devices.
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