Prof. Giovanni Di Pino

Giovanni Di Pino was born in Catania in August 1979, spent his childhood in Veneto and adolescence at the foot of Etna, and in 1997 he moved to Rome to study. After various experiences in neuroscience laboratories in the States, in 2003, at the age of 23, he graduated in Medicine and Surgery, 110/110 honors and honorable mention, at the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome.

In 2010 he completed the PhD in Biomedical Engineering with honors and in 2015 the clinical specialization in Neurology.

Today he deals with Neurophysiology and Neuroengineering and all their possible points of contact. He is mainly dedicated to the development of neural interfaces for the control of sensorized cybernetic prostheses, with particular attention to the brain plasticity induced by their use, and to the development of new methods for non-invasive brain neuromodulation.

Giovanni has published in the most important international scientific journals, and was part of the group that first allowed an amputee to control different movements of a prosthetic hand and to recognize the shape and stiffness of various objects through very small electrodes implanted in the nerves peripheral.

In 2015, Giovanni wins the ERC starting Grant, the most prestigious scientific tender of the European Community with a five-year project that aims to develop a new cybernetic hand prosthesis that the amputee can feel as an integral part of his body. Today Giovanni he teaches Human Physiology and is responsible for the research unit of “Neurophysiology and Neuroengineering of Man-Technology interaction” at the Campus Biomedico University of Rome. In 2015, the prestigious US magazine Wired included him among the 50 characters to keep an eye on in the years to come and in 2016 he won the Young Italy Award, which annually rewards the ten best young Italian excellences.

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