Andrea Demofonti

Workshop Co-Chair

Andrea Demofonti received the BSc in Industrial Engineering, the MSc in Biomedical Engineering, and PhD degree in bioengineering from University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome (UCBM), Rome, Italy, in 2015, 2017, and 2022, respectively. He is currently a Post-Doc Research Fellow at the Research Unit of Advanced Robotics and Human-Centred Technologies-CREO Lab in UCBM and research assistant at the Research Unit SYNERGIA, Centro Santa Maria della Provvidenza, IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS. His research interests are the sensory feedback restoration systems based on Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) for prosthetics; the Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) systems for rehabilitation/assistance; robotic systems for prosthetics and rehabilitation, human biomechanics. He was involved 10+ national projects, he has authored/coauthored 10+ peer-reviewed publications and one patent.

Francesca Cordella

Workshop Co-Chair

Francesca Cordella is Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome (UCBM). She received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. in Computer and Automation Engineering both from the University of Naples Federico II. In 2011, she was visiting student at the Institut fur Robotik und Mechatronik, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR). From 2013 to 2018 she was Assistant Researcher and from 2018 to 2024 she was Assistant Professor both in the Research Unit of Advanced Robotics and Human-Centred Technologies at UCBM. She is member of the Technical and Scientific Program Committee and Associate Editor for several International Conferences, Workshops and Journals. She is Co-Chair of the IEEE/RAS Technical Committee on Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics. Her research interests are mainly in the field of biomechanics, biomedical robotics, rehabilitation and assistive robotics, bionics, bio-inspired robot control strategies, vision-based approaches for motion reconstruction and human-robot interaction, multimodal interfaces for assistive and collaborative robotics, psychophysiological assessment, limb prostheses, human-robot interaction, sensory feedback restoration, functional electrical stimulation, closed-loop systems. She was and is involved in the role of Co-Principal Investigator, Project Manager and scientific manager in more than 25 European and national projects in her fields of interest. She has authored/coauthored 3 patents and more than 115 peer-reviewed publications appeared in international journals, books and conference proceedings.

Fabrizio Taffoni

Workshop Co-Chair

Prof. Fabrizio Taffoni received a BS degree, an MS degree, and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy, in 2003, 2005, and 2009, respectively. He is an Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Advanced Robotic and Human-Centred Technologies of Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma. His research interests include the non-obtrusive and quantitative assessment of motor development in children, as well as motion analysis of adults and patients for research purposes and for the design of human-centered mechatronic devices for assistance and support.