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Neurophysiology and Movement Rehabilitation group
Our vision is to decrease the burden of disability related to neurological conditions by deploying and developing cutting-edge innovative technologies. The group's mission is to foster a multidisciplinary, dynamic research-oriented environment to bring together neurophisiological and movement analysis knowledge with the aim of using technologies to tailor personalised rehabilititative programs.
Neurologist with special interest in Neurorehabilitation
Alessandra Del Felice | Responsible for the Clinical Analysis and Biomechanics of Movement Lab & Neurophysiology Lab |
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![]() | 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. |
Bioengineers
Emanuela Formaggio | Assistant Professor, Neurophysiological signal analysis expert |
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![]() | 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). |
Roberto Di Marco | Post-doc Researcher, Human Movement and Biomechanics expert |
![]() | 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. |
Maria Rubega | Post-doc Researcher, Neurophysiological signal analysis expert |
![]() | 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. |
Neuropsychologists
Luciana Ciringione | Research Fellow |
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![]() | 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. |
Head of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Unit
Stefano Masiero | Physical Medicine specialist |
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![]() | 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). |
Post-graduates Students
PhD Students
Margerita Bertuccelli | Neuropsychologist |
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![]() | 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. |
Andrea Buccellato | Neuropsychologist |
Andrea Buccellato is graduated in (profile to be updated...). |
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Registrars
Laura Nieves, MD
Past
Michele Tonellato, MD
Giulia Bellon, MD
Students
Medical Students | Engineering Students |
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Past | Past |
Visiting Researchers
Ngadhnjim Sutaj, PhD Student
Researcher
g.tec medical engineering, Austria
Past
Lore Wyers, PT, PhD Student
Ann Hallemans, PhD
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