GNB AWARDS FOR THE BEST DEGREE AND DOCTORAL THESIS: THE BIOROBOTICS INSTITUTE OF SANT’ANNA SCHOOL GETS THREE AWARDS
108 candidates for the degree awards. 42 candidates for the doctoral awards. As every year, GNB award represents an important moment of comparison on cutting-edge scientific issues that can have a central impact on the future of international research. The award ceremony took place in Bressanone from 13 to 16 September 2021 during the XL Annual School of the National Bioengineering Group. The competition awarded 22 theses (12 in the Degree Thesis category; 10 in the Doctoral Thesis category).
The BioRobotics Institute of Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies gets three awards: Marcello Chiurazzi wins the Doctoral award “Giorgio Santambrogio” with the thesis “Novel collaborative technologies and control strategies for augmented human-robot collaboration in computer-integrated medical environments”; Matteo Vissani wins the award Massimo Grattarola with the thesis “Updating Deep Brain Stimulation: novel quantitative methods to determine sweet spots and patients state through electrophysiological activity”. In the Degree Thesis category Claudia Paci wins the “Bioengineering” award with the thesis “3D bioprinting di idrogeli nanocompositi piezoelettrici e mioblasti per l’ingegnerizzazione del muscolo scheletrico”.
COLLABORATIVE ROBOTICS, NEUENGINEERING AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
Marcello Chiurazzi, post doc in the research area coordinated by prof. Gastone Ciuti, focused his career on the development of novel technologies for collaborative robotics in both medical and industrial scenario. The capacitive technology he developed for human robot interaction is now employed in different European projects were robots and human act as members of a unique team. The aim of Matteo Vissani's thesis is to improve treatments for movement disorders such as Tourette and Parkinson's with deep brain stimulation therapies. Claudia Paci worked in the MIO-PRO project that aims to develop a new human-machine interface for the control of prostheses.
The full list of the winners is available on GNB award website
