Prof.ssa Loredana Zollo
Full Professor of Bioengineering. Since 2022 she has been the Coordinator of the PhD Course in Bioengineering, Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems and since 2018 she has been Head of the Research Unit of Advanced Robotics and Person-Centered Technologies (CREO Lab) and President of the Master's Degree Course in Biomedical Engineering.
Biography
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Naples 'Federico II' (2000); PhD in Bioengineering at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (2004). Visiting student at the Pierre et Marie Curie University of Paris (2003). Visiting post-doc fellow at the MIT Newman Lab (Cambridge, MA, USA) (2008). University researcher at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma (2008), Associate Professor of Bioengineering (2015) and Full Professor of Bioengineering (2019) at the same university.
MAIN DUTIES
Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (from 2022 to present) at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma; Coordinator of the PhD course in Bioengineering, Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems at the same university (from 2022 to present); director of the CREO Lab (Laboratory of Advanced Robotics and Human-Centred Technologies) (from 2018 to present); President of the Master's Degree Course in Biomedical Engineering at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma (2018 to present);
Topic Editor for the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (2020 to present), Associate Editor for: IEEE RAM (2012-2015), IEEE TMRB (2019 to present), Scientific Reports (2021 to present); Founding member of the "National Group of Bioengineering" Association (from 2018 to today); IEEE Senior Member (2016 to present); co-chair of the IEEE-RAS TC on Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics (2009-2012).
MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS
Robotics for rehabilitation and assistance, Biorobotics and Bionics, Intelligent interfaces for human-machine interaction, Surgical robotics and teleoperation, Human biomechanics and ergonomics.
Curriculum Vitae
Full Professor of Bioengineering since 2019 at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma where he is Coordinator of the PhD Course in Bioengineering, Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems since 2022, Head of the Research Unit “CREO Lab – Advanced Robotics and Human-Centred Technologies”, President of the Teaching Quality Assurance Group for the PhD Course Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering and President of the Master's Degree Course in Biomedical Engineering since 2018.
Since 2021 he has been a member of the Commission for the National Scientific Qualification of the first and second level of university professors in the competition sector 09/G2- BIOENGINEERING at the MUR.
From 2009 to 2011 she was a member of the Council of the Integrated Research Center of the University and contact person for the research line on "Innovative Technologies and Mathematical Models in Medicine" at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma.
Since 2019 he has been Associate Editor for the international journal IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics and Chief Editor of the international journal Journal of Healthcare Engineering, since 2020 Topic Editor for the international journal International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems and Associate Editor for the international journal Scientific Report since 2021.
Expert evaluator for the Territorial Cohesion Agency in the context of the "Notice for expressions of interest for the candidacy of project ideas to be admitted to a negotiation procedure aimed at financing redevelopment and refunctionalization interventions of sites for the creation of ecosystems of innovation in the South" (2022).
Expert and reviewer for the European Commission in the context of the programs ICT-FP7 (FET Proactive, Embodied Intelligence), H2020/ICT (Robotics and AI), ERC – STG, and Vice-Chair for H2020-FETOPEN-RIA, HORIZON-EIC -2021- PATHFINDERCHALLENGES since 2009.
2020 – Member of the Occupational Health and Safety Technical Group of Unindustria
2019 − Member of I-RIM (National Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines)
2018 − Founding member of the “National Group of Bioengineering” Association.
2016 − IEEE Senior Member 2015 – Member of the IEEE EMBS BioRobotics Technical Committee
2009 − 2012: Co-chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics
2009 − Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
Teaching activity at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in the last 5 years:
2019 – ongoing: Professor of Principles of Ergonomic Design (ING-IND/34, 6 CFU) within the Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering
2015 – ongoing: Professor of Industrial and Medical Robotics (ING-IND/34, 15CFU) within the Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering
2016 – 2018: Lecturer and co-teacher of the Bioengineering Laboratory teaching (ING-IND/34, 6 CFU) within the Degree course in Industrial Engineering
Levi-Montalcini Association Award 2022 conferred by the National Association of Public Executives and High Professionalism of the School as part of the eleventh edition of the "NOTE DI MERITO" event.
2020 Quality Award, issued by the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital, for an improvement project in the field of Quality and Clinical Risk entitled "Robotic procedure for the transport of blood products and drugs and for the sanitization of environments at the Campus Covid Center", authors: Tamantini C., Scotto di Luzio F., Cordella F., Pascarella G., Zollo L., Agrò FE
Best Young Researcher Paper at the V Congress of the National Bioengineering Group, Naples, Italy, 2016 with the scientific article: E. Noce, L. Zollo, A. Davalli, R. Sacchetti, E. Guglielmelli “Relationship between Neural and Muscular Recordings during Hand Control”.
PUBLICATIONS
In the last 5 years:
Lapresa M, Tamantini C, Scotto di Luzio F, Ferlazzo M, Sorrenti G, Corpina F, Zollo L, (2022) “Validation of Magneto-Inertial Measurement Units for Upper-Limb Motion Analysis through an Anthropomorphic Robot”, IEEE Sensors Journal, DOI 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3193313
F. Leone, C. Gentile, F. Cordella, E. Gruppioni, E. Guglielmelli, L. Zollo (2022), “A parallel classification strategy to simultaneous control elbow, wrist, and hand movements”, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12984-022-00982-z
Tamantini C, Cordella F, Lauretti C, Zollo L (2021), “The WGD – A Dataset of Assembly LineWorking Gestures for Ergonomic Analysis and Work-Related Injuries Prevention”, Sensors, DOI: 10.3390/s21227600
Tamantini C, Scotto di Luzio F, Cordella F, Pascarella G, Agrò FA, Zollo L (2021), “A robotic healthcare assistant for the COVID-19 Emergency”, IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION MAGAZINE, DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2020.3044953
Stefano M, Cordella F, Loppini A, Filippi S, Zollo L (2021), “A multiscale approach to axon and nerve stimulation modeling: A review”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2021.3054551
Nann M, Cordella F, Trigili E, Lauretti C, Bravi M, Miccinilli S, Catalan JM, Badesa FJ, Crea S, Bressi F, Garcia-Aracil N, Vitiello N, Zollo L*, Soekadar SR* (2020), “ Restoring Activities of Daily Living Using an EEG/EOG-Controlled Semiautonomous and Mobile Whole-Arm Exoskeleton in Chronic Stroke”, IEEE Systems Journal, DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2020.3021485.
Gentile C, Cordella F, Ramos Rodrigues C, Zollo L (2020), “Touch-and-Slippage Detection Algorithm for Prosthetic Hands”, Mechatronics, Vol. 70, DOI: 10.1016/j.mechatronics.2020.102402.
Lauretti C, Cordella F, Tamantini C, Gentile C, Scotto di Luzio F, Zollo, L (2020), “A Surgeon-Robot Shared Control for Ergonomic Pedicle Screw Fixation”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2972892.
Scotto di Luzio F, Lauretti C, Cordella F, Draicchio F, Zollo L (2020), “Visual vs Vibrotactile Feedback for Posture Assessment during Upper-Limb Robot-Aided Rehabilitation”, Applied Ergonomics, Vol. 82, DOI: 10.1016/j .apergo.2019.102950.
Crea S, Nann M, Trigili E, Cordella F, Baldoni A, Badesa FJ, Catalán JM, Zollo L, Vitiello N, Aracil NG, Soekadar SR (2018), “Feasibility and safety of shared EEG/EOG and vision-guided autonomy whole-arm exoskeleton control to perform activities of daily living”, Scientific Reports, Vol. 8, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29091-5
Badesa FJ, Diez JA, Catalan JM, Trigili E, Cordella F, Nann M, Crea S, Soekadar SR, Zollo L, Vitiello N, Garcia-Aracil N. (2019), “Physiological responses during hybrid BNCI control of an upper- limb exoskeleton”, Sensors, Vol. 19, DOI: 10.3390/s19224931.
Scarpelli A, Demofonti A, Terracina F, Ciancio AL, Zollo, L (2020), “Evoking Apparent Moving Sensation in the Hand via Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation”, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Vol. 14, DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00534.
Lauretti C, Cordella F, Zollo L (2019), “A hybrid Joint/Cartesian DMP-based approach for obstacle avoidance of anthropomorphic assistive robots”, International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 11, DOI: 10.1007/s12369-019-00597 -w.
Leone F, Gentile C, Ciancio AL, Piattini E, Davalli A, Sacchetti R, Guglielmelli E, Zollo L (2019), “Simultaneous sEMG Classification of Hand/Wrist Gestures and Forces”, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Vol. 13, doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2019.00042.
Zollo L, Di Pino G, Ciancio AL, Ranieri F, Cordella F, ..., Grupponi E, Sacchetti R, Castellano S, Di Lazzaro V, Steering S, Denaro V, Guglielmelli E (2019), “Restoring tactile sensations via neural interfaces for real-time force-and-slippage closed-loop control of bionic hands”, Science Robotics, Vol. 4, DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aau9924
