Curriculum VitaeetStudiorum –SilvestroMicera Silvestro Micera was ...

He is currently member the Programme Committee of the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent
Robots and Systems, Associate Editor for the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Engineering in
Medicine and Biology, and the Program Co-Chair of the 6 th International Conference of the
International Society for Gerontechnologies (ISG08).
He was also Chair of the Programme Committee of the Summer School of the NEUROBOTICS
project on “Brain to machine interfaces” and Co-Chair of the Track “BioRobotics” of the 2007 IEEE
International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology.
He is Senior Member of the IEEE (Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Systems Man and
Cybernetics Society, Robotics and Automation Society) and member of the International Society for
Gerontechnology.
Dr. Micera served as guest-editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering of a Special Issue
on “Sensory Neural Prostheses” published in 2007.
Dr. Micera is currently serving as guest-editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering of a
Special Issue on “Hybrid Neuroprosthetic Systems” to be published in 2008 and for IEEE EMBS
Magazine of a special issue on “Gerontechnology” to be published in 2008.
Dr. Micera is also currently serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical
Engineering. He is also member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Neuroengineering and
Rehabilition and Co-Chair of the Technical Committee on Rehabilitation & Assistive Robotics of the
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society..
ResearchInterests
The main research interests of Dr Micera are in the development of technologies and methods for the
analysis and restoration of upper and lower limb motor function.
In particular:
• Cortical and peripheral neural interfaces for the control of neuro-robotic artefacts (hand
prostheses, exoskeletons, tele-operated robotic systems)
• Implantable microsensors to extract biomechanical information from tendons
• Biomechanics of the musculo-tendinous system and of the peripheral nervous system
• Aging biomechanics
• Gerontechnologies
• Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) for upper and lower limb function restoration
• Robotic systems for assessment and restoration of functions
• Neural control of movement
AcademicActivities
Dr. Micera is currently supervisor of the following PhD students:
1.Hybridneuroprostheticsystems
Doctoral Program in Biomedical Engineering, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna – Candidate: Jacopo Rigosa,
from 2007 (sole supervisor).
2.Designofnovelimplantableneuralinterfaces
Doctoral Program in BioRobotics, IMT, Lucca– Candidate: Silvia Bossi, from 2005 ((joint supervision
together with Dr. Arianna Menciassi)
3.Characterizationandmodelingofthebiomechanicalandneuromchanicalpropertiesoftheperipheralnervoustisue