Personal information
Born in Monza, Italy, on April 19th 1970.
CURRENT POSITION
17/1/2005 – today: Assistant Professor with tenure track (Researcher), Electronic, Information and Biomedical Engineering Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
EDUCATION
27/02/1996: Laurea in Electronic Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
18/02/2000: PhD in Biomedical Engineering with the Thesis titled “Development of methods for the evaluation of the left ventricular function by signal and image processing of echocardiographic data”, Politecnico di Milano (supervisor S. Cerutti)
POST-DOC FELLOWSHIPS at Politecnico di Milano
- 16/3/2000 – 15/3/2002: Research fellow at the Biomedical Eng. Dpt, on: “Integration of echocardiographic and cardiovacular variabilità signals for the evaluation of the autonomic nervous system control”
- 15/3/2002 – 31/3/2004: Research fellow at the Biomedical Eng. Dpt, on: “Data fusion and integration of signal/images in physiology and in clinical applications”
- 1/4/2004 – 15/1/2005: Fellowship “dott. “Ennio Denti”, SNIA S.p.a., at the Biomedical Eng. Dpt, on: “Evaluation of the morphological characteristics of the atrial and ventricular depolarization waveforms from ECG Holter signals”
International Experience
- 24/4/2000 – 17/11/2000: Visiting Research Associate at the Dept. of Medicine, Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging Laboratories (tutor Prof. V Mor-Avi)
- 01/05/2003 – 30/09/2003: Visiting Research Associate at the Dept. of Medicine, Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging Laboratories (tutor Prof. RM Lang)
- During the 2005- 2007 timeframe, Visiting Researcher at the at the Dept. of Medicine, Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging Laboratories University of Chicago, IL, USA for a total of 13 month (6 months in 2005, 4 months in 2006 and 3 months in 2007).
AWARDS
- SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
Author of 3 book chapters and >50 papers published in peer reviewed ISI journals resulting in a total Impact Factor equal to 154, a citation index (Web of knowledge H-index) equal to 15. Also, author of >100 proceeding papers and >110 abstracts presented in international conferences.
CURRENT INVOLMENT IN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Principal Investigator and Coordinator of the project “Evaluation of changes in cardiac repolarization during bed-rest experiments”, European Space Agency, 2006-2013
- Co-Principal Investigator of the project “AEQUABED: Automated Echocardiographic QUAntification during BED-rest experiments”, European Space Agency, 2006-2013
- Co-Investigator of the project “3-D Ballistocardiography in microgravity”, European Space Agency, AO-ILSRA-09 (PI, Dr. Migeotte, Université Libre de Bruxelles)
PREVIOUS PARTICIPATION TO RESEARCH PROJECTS
CURRENT TEACHING ACTIVITY
- 2003 – today: Professor of the “Laboratory of biomedical image processing” class (5 credits equivalent of 70 hours lesson), Biomedical Engineering degree program, Politecnico di Milano
- 2001- today: Professor of “Experimental design and statistical analysis”, PhD program in Biomedical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
MENTORING ACTIVITIES
CURRENT SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATIONS
ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC EVENTS
SERVICES TO THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
- OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
- 2002: certification for human space flight in long-term missions, European Astronaut Center, Koln, Germany
- 2001-02: qualified in the first three places in the selection of the Italian Space Agency for an Italian Astronaut inside the European Astronaut Corp