CECILIA PROVENZALE received the B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering (2018), the M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering (2020), and the PhD in Science and Engineering for Humans and the Environment (2024) from the Università Campus Bio-medico di Roma, Rome, Italy. She is currently a Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Cassino, Italy. Since September 2021, she has tutored the ‘Biodesign’ and ‘Mechatronics’ and ‘Biomedical Systems’ courses for students pursuing the Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering, at Università Campus Bio-medico di Roma. She is currently involved in the PRIN project titled “New sensors and measurement techniques for underground monitoring and mapping”. Her main research interests include mechatronic technologies, human machine interface for human motor analysis, development of tools to assess child and adult motor behaviors, and underground localization.

Francesco Di Tommaso received the B.Sc. (2018) and the M.Sc. (2021) degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy). He is currently a PhD candidate in Science and Engineering for Humans and the Environment at Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma (Rome, Italy), and is involved in the EU-funded project CONBOTS. His current research activities focus on human-robot and human-robot-human interactions in rehabilitation and assistance for the upper and lower limbs.

Dr. Nicola di Stefano graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan and in double-bass at “G. Verdi” Conservatory of Milan. He then obtained his PhD from Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome with a thesis on musical consonance and dissonance. He worked as post-doc researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, before obtaining a permanent position as Researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). His main research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and musicology. He published 50+ articles and book chapters in international publishing venues. He is currently adjunct professor at the University of Arkansas Rome Center. He has been involved in several EU-funded and national projects on topics related to music and technology.

Prof. Dr. Domenico Formica received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy, in 2002, 2004, and 2008, respectively. Until 2022, he was an Associate Professor of industrial bioengineering with Università Campus Bio-medico di Roma, where he Co-Founded NEXT. In 2007, he was a Visiting Student with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from 2014 to 2018, he was a Visiting Scientist with the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. He is currently a Professor of bioengineering at Newcastle University, U.K., where he leads the Neurorobotics Group. He has actively contributed to several National and EU-funded projects. He received three national grants for young researchers. He is also the European Coordinator of the EU Project CONBOTS and a PI of the EU Project NIMA. His research interests include the intersection of robotics/mechatronics and neuroscience, as well as the areas of mechatronic technologies for studying human motor control, quantitative assessment of patients with neuromuscular disorders, and novel robotic devices to improve motor learning. On these topics, he has published more than 140 peer-reviewed scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Taffoni (IEEE Senior Member 2018) received his bachelor's degree (2003), master's degree (2005), and Ph.D. (2009) in Biomedical Engineering from Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma (UCBM). He is an Associate Professor in Industrial Bioengineering and a researcher at the Advanced Robotics and Human-Centred Technologies - CREO Lab at UCBM. His research primarily focuses on developing and validating unobtrusive technologies for out-of-the-lab motion assessment and creating mechatronic devices for rehabilitation and assistance. Dr. Taffoni has been involved in three NIH projects (one as Co-Investigator) and several EU-funded and national projects, including serving as RU-Leader for the EU H2020/ICT project CONBOTS and as Co-Investigator for the 3D-AID project. He is a prolific contributor to his field, with over 70 scientific publications and one pending patent. Additionally, he serves as a reviewer for numerous prestigious international peer-reviewed journals.