Alessandra Del Felice is an academic clinician in the area of Neurorehabilitation. Her basic training has been as a neurologist, with a special interest in neurophysiology and neurorehabilitation, and holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience.
Her current research area allows her to draw on her experience and skills in neurophysiology to improve methodology and outcome measures in this important area of rehabilitation. She has a track record in EEG-TMS and EEG-fMRI co-registration, neuromonitoring and neurostimulation, and EEG signal analysis.
Her current research portfolio includes gait analysis in rare syndromes; validation of inertial sensors for gait in clinical practice; EEG-EMG co-registration during overground gait in healthy subjects and during exsoskleteon gait in post-stroke subjects; early biomarkers of recovery after stroke; neurostimulation to improve rehabilitation outcomes in Parkinson Disease and neuropathic pain based on tailored paradigms; neurostimulation as a memory rehabilitative tool in pediatric populations; recovery and long term prognostic markers after coma.
She has an extensive collaborative research network, with current national and international collaborations (University of Verona, Italy; University of Bologna, Italy; University of Antwerp, Belgium; King’s College, London; University of Dublin, IRL; University of Ulster, UK; University College London, UK). Techniques that she masters include gait analysis, electromyography (EMG), electroencephalography (EEG), muscular and nerve ultrasound (US), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), EEG-TMS and EEG-fMRI co-registrations, sleep scoring, neuromonitoring in the operation room, and EEG signal analysis using commercial softwares.
She has almost 50 peer reviewed articles or book chapters to her name. She has been given several awards for her work and these include the 2013 Italian Clinical Neurophysiology Society Young Investigator Award, the 2008 Italian Neuroepidemiology Association “Giulia Benassi” Prize and the 2004 “G.Pampiglione “ Prize by the Italian Neurological Society. She has attracted funding at UNIPD, with an on-going H2020 project and several national grants.
She is the responsible person of the Outpatient Clinic for Rehabilitation of Motor Disorders due to CNS lesions and of the Movement Analysis Laboratory of her Institution.
Teaching
Office: +39 049 821 1637
e-mail: alessandra.delfelice@unipd.it

Emanuela Formaggio received the Master’s degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in bioengineering from the University of Padova, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. From 2006 to 2010 she was a research fellow at the Department of Neurological and Movement Sciences at the University of Verona, Italy. From 2010 she has a research fellowship with Foundation IRCCS "San Camillo" Hospital, Venezia, Italy. From 2018 she is an assistant professor in Bioengineering at the Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Italy. Her research interest concerns fMRI analysis, coregistration of EEG-fMRI signals, EEG-TMS coregistration and EEG/MEG source localization for clinical applications (epilepsy, stroke, disorders of consciousness, Parkinson, muscular dystrophy).
Teaching
e-mail: emanuela.formaggio@unipd.it

Roberto Di Marco  graduated at Sapienza University of Rome in Clinical Engineering (BSc, 2009) and in Biomedical Engineering (MSc, 2012), defending a thesis on the effect of magnetic field distortions on measurements gathered from wearable sensors typically used for Human Movement Analysis. He received the PhD both from Sapienza University of Rome and from The University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK). His main research focus was the modelling of the foot-ankle complex for gait analysis purposes. Since 2018 he is responsible for the technical part of the Laboratory of Clinical Analysis and Biomechanics of Movement @ University Hospital of Padua. He has currently a post-doc position at the Department of Neuroscience @ UNIPD, where he is looking into the gait deviations of people with Dravet Syndrome and supports the management of the "PD_Pal" project, funded by the EU H2020 programme. He also serves as reviewer for several journals and conferences in biomechanics.
Mobile: +39 328 1495476
Teaching
e-mail: roberto.dimarco@unipd.it

Maria Rubega received a BSc Degree in Information Engineering in July 2011 and a MSc Degree in Bioengineering in October 2013, both from the University of Padova (Padova, Italy). In February 2017, she obtained her Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova. During her 2-y experience (April 2017-April 2019) at the Laboratory of Prof. C.M. Michel at the Department of Basic Neurosciences at the University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland), she was involved in the project Sinergia aiming in exploring brain communication pathways by combining diffusion based quantitative structural connectivity and EEG source imaging with application to physiological and epileptic networks. Her main research was related to the quantification of high-density EEG time-varying connectivity in the source space (i.e., estimation of EEG source dipole orientation for connectivity analysis; implementation of a constrained Kalman filter approach to inform dynamic functional connectivity with anatomical priors; graph methods for the analysis of functional/effective connectivity matrices). Now, she currently holds a postdoctoral position at the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Padova. Her current 3-y research project aims to develop a novel neuromuscular controller for a soft lower-limb exoskeleton to detect the loss of stability during walking or standing in the elderly and apply the proper torques to restore stability. She is involved in the acquisition of kinematic, cerebral activity and muscular signal during gait and postural adjustments and on EEG-EMG signal processing.
e-mail: maria.rubega@unipd.it

Luciana Ciringione  received her BSc in Psychological Sciences at the University of Palermo (2013) and the MSc in Neuroscience and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation at the University of Padova (2016). Her main interests are sleep psychophysiology and neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation. Her interest in sleep raised during her MSc degree, working on a thesis about the effects of sleep in cognitive and emotional processes, such as decision-making. She finalized her enrollment on the psychologists' professional register spending one-year at IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano (2017), where she worked on neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation of patients with neurological disorders, with a particular focus on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. During her Ph.D., she developed interests also in neural mechanisms underlying learning, social cognition, and sleep characteristics in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Her current research project is about psychopathological characteristics, cognitive assessment, and sleep disorders in COVID-19 survivors.
e-mail: luciana.ciringione@unipd.it

Stefano Masiero is graduated in Medicine and Surgery and Specialized in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Padua. Full Professor at the Department of Neuroscience- DNS, University of Padua, Italy. Director of the Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine postgraduate School at the University of Padua, and Chair of Rehabilitation Unit at the Padua General Hospital. Areas of prevalent scientific and clinical interest are focusing on new tools for neurorehabilitation and rehabilitation in neuro-musculoskeletal disorders. Currently teaching for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Padua (School of Medicine and Physiotherapy, Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine post-graduate School).
Teaching
Office: +39 049 821 1270
e-mail: stef.masiero@unipd.it

Margherita Bertuccelli graduated at Padova University in Scienze Psicologiche Cognitive e Psicobiologiche (BSc, 2017) and in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology (MSc, 2019), defending an experimental thesis on sleep and cognitive alterations in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
She is currently a Ph.D. Student at the Padova Neuroscience Center (PNC), UNIPD, under the supervision of Professor Alessandra Del Felice, where she is studying the relation between gait/motor abnormal development in patients affected by Dravet Syndrome and their cognitive profile. Her research interest concerns kinematic analysis of movement, cognitive development and the clinic application of rehabilitation paradigms in congenital and acquired neurological disorders through neurostimulation techniques and cognitive assessments.
e-mail: margherita.bertuccelli@phd.unipd.it

Past
Marianna Zampini, MD
Maria Zebele, MD
Lorenzo De Zen, MD
Riccardo Pieropan, MD
Cristian Bortoli, MD

Past
Stefano Zambelli, BSc
Elisa Callegari, MSc
Edoardo De Gasperi, MSc
Roberta Cesaletti, BSc
Arianna Moro, BSc
Jessica Rupil, MSc