Professore Associato
Istituto di Biorobotica
Alberto Mazzoni
Bio
Short bio
2024 - now Associate Professor and Head of the Computational Neuroengineering Lab @ The BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
2017 - 2024 working as Assistant Professor and Head of the Computational Neuroengineering Lab @ The BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
2014 - 2017 working as Post-doc Researcher @ The BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in the Translational Neural Engineering group with Prof. Silvestro Micera and in the Human Machine Nexus laboratory with Dr. Calogero Oddo
2009-2013 Working in the Neural Coding group of Prof. Stefano Panzeri @ Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
2007-2009 Post-doc researcher in the Computational Neuroscience group of the Institute for Scientific Interchange of Torino - collaborating with Prof. Nicolas Brunel, CNRS Paris, France.
2007 - PhD in Neurobiology at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS) of Trieste in the lab of prof. Vincent Torre
2003 - Visiting student at the Neurobiology Department of University of California, San Diego in the lab of prof. William Kristan.
2002 - Degree in Theoretical Physics at University of Pisa with prof. Leone Fronzoni
1978 - Born in Firenze, Italy.
Ricerca
An overview
Computational Neuroengineering Lab
Basal ganglia dysfunctions and behavioral disorders
Parkinson and pathological gambling
Learning from DBS implant microrecordings
Sensory processing in upper limb neuroprosthesis
we got the cover of the 1st Issue of the 100th volume of NEURON!
Texture discrimination on eLife
neuromorphic fingertip on IEEE TNNLS
Spiking neurons network models
Dynamic regimes in the thalamus on PLOS ONE
LFP modeling on PLOS COMP BIOL
Bioelectrical medicine
working in collaboration with GALVANI
Sensory information in cortical subcortical and peripheral neurons
A 2011 review on my earlier work
History of science
Science dissemination
Pubblicazioni
News
Rai Uno - L’EVOLUZIONE DEI ROBOT IN UNA MOSTRA AL MUDEC DI MILANO: INTERVISTA AD ALBERTO MAZZONI, RICERCATORE DELL’ISTITUTO DI BIOROBOTICA DELLA SCUOLA SANT’ANNA
Rai 2 - Così la robotica può aiutare i medici contro il Covid-19: intervista ad Alberto Mazzoni, responsabile del Lab di Neuroingegneria computazionale dell’Istituto di BioRobotica del Sant’Anna di Pisa
rai 4 - Tra le leggi della robotica di Asimov e il saggio “La cibernetica” di Wiener, Alberto Mazzoni, ricercatore dell’Istituto di BioRobotica, spiega l’evoluzione storica dell’interazione uomo-macchina