Emma Colamarino is a research associate at the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering "Antonio Ruberti" of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is a lecturer for the course "Advanced Methods or Biomedical Data Analysis", MD in Biomedical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome. She received her M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in Biomedical Engineering in 2014 and her PhD degree in Bioengineering in 2019. Since 2015, she has been a research collaborator at the laboratory of Neuroelectric Imaging and Brain-Computer Interfaces of IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia in Rome (Italy). In 2018, she was a visiting PhD student at the Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London (UK). From 2019 to March 2023, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Sapienza University of Rome. She is a member of the Professional Association of Engineers of Bari (2014). She is the Principal Investigator of several research projects funded by Sapienza University of Rome and the Investigator of projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Health and by Horizon Program. Her research topics mainly include signal processing, electromyography, electroencephalography, machine learning, brain–computer interface, motor rehabilitation, stroke, and spinal cord injury.
Prof. Jlenia Toppi received her bachelor’s degree (summa cum laude) in clinical engineering and her master’s degree (summa cum laude) in biomedical engineering from the University of Rome La Sapienza, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and her Ph.D. degree (Hons.) in biomedical engineering from the University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum). She is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, University of Rome La Sapienza. Since 2010, she has carried out research activity on healthy and pathological individuals at the Neuroelectrical Imaging and Brain Computer Interface Laboratory, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy. Her expertise is in the fields of signal processing, mathematical modeling of biological systems, EEG, neuroelectrical imaging, connectivity estimation, hyperscanning, statistical assessment, and graph theory. She has participated in several national and international research projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, 7th Framework Program and Horizon 2020 of the European Commission. Her research interests include the development and implementation of new approaches for biomedical signal processing, with a special focus on neuroelectrical data (electroencephalography, EEG) to reconstruct the brain circuits at the basis of cognitive processes and social cognition. She is an Editor of the Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine.
Dr.
Angela Riccio, based in Rome, IT, is currently a Psychologist - assistive
technology expert at Fondazione Santa Lucia, IRCCS, Roma. Angela Riccio brings
experience from previous roles at the Neuroelecrical imaging and Brain Computer
Interface Laboratory, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, University of Rome “La
Sapienza” and Technische Universität Berlin. Angela Riccio holds the University
of Rome “Sapienza”, with a robust skill set that includes Psicologia,
Statistiche, Analisi dei dati, Neuroscienze, Ricerca, and more.
Prof. Febo Cincotti is a Full Professor of Biomedical Engineering (ING-INF/06) at the
Antonio Ruberti Department of Computer, control and management engineering,
Sapienza University of Rome. He holds an MSc degree in Electronics Engineering
(1998) and a PhD degree in Biophysics (2003). Between 2003 and 2011, he was a
research scientist at IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome (with team leader
duties since 2009). Since 2011, he has had a tenure position (assistant
professor in 2011; associate professor in 2015) at Sapienza University. He is
also a senior research scientist at the Neuroelectrical Imaging and Brain
Computer Interface Laboratory of IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia. His scientific
activity is generally framed in the methodological and applicative research on
processing of neurophysiological signals and includes the development of direct
Brain–Computer Interfaces for assistive and rehabilitation purposes. He is
considered an international expert in the field of Brain–Computer interfaces. Since
2014, he has held the National Scientific Habilitation as Full Professor of
Biomedical Engineering. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions
on Biomedical Engineering. He is a member of the board of the PhD programme in
Control engineering, Bioengineering and Operations research at Sapienza
University of Rome.
Dr. Donatella Mattia received her M.D. degree from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy in 1987. In 1991, she completed her training as a resident in Neurology and became a neurologist at the same University. She also received her Ph.D. degree in “physiopathology of movement disorders” in 1996 from the Department of Neuroscience, “La Sapienza” University of Rome. From 1992–1995, she was a Research Fellow at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montréal QC, Canada. Currently, she is an Assistant Researcher in the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, high-resolution EEG Laboratory, Fondazione Santa Lucia, IRCCS, Rome, Italy. Her research interests include cortical excitability and plasticity processes in different neurological disorders as evaluated by neuroelectric imaging techniques.
