Enzo Mastinu

Enzo Mastinu is an electronic engineer specialized in embedded systems for biomedical applications. He received his BSc and MSc in electronic engineering from Università degli Studi di Cagliari, and his PhD in biomedical signals and systems from Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. The work carried out during his research years in Sweden allowed the development and at-home clinical application of a unique technology: an arm prosthesis connected simultaneously to the patient’s muscles, nerves and bones, intuitively controlled and provided with tactile sensory feedback via direct neural stimulation. Some preliminary results from the clinical trial have been recently published on the New England Journal of Medicine, Science Translational Medicine and Science Robotics. In 2021, he was granted a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions individual fellowship by the European Union.

Enzo contributed to the publication of 24 articles on scientific journals (~75% in Q1), 18 on international conferences and a PCT patent. He is IEEE Senior Member of EMBS, reviewer for scientific journals and conferences (~85 recognized reviews), edited 2 special issues, and is currently editor for Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics (IEEE) and Scientific Data (Nature). To date, he contributed to the supervision of ~40 students (PhD students, MSc theses, interns and research assistants), and to the teaching of 3 MSc courses.