Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics University of Siena Via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy

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Google Scholar:	Leonardo Meli (citations: 479, h-index: 13)
Skype:	leo.meli

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1  Bio Sketch

Born the 9^th of April 1987 in Siena, Italy. B.S. degree in Computer Engineering (focus on Robotics and Industrial automation) in 2009 from the University of Siena with a thesis entitled "Wearing devices for tactile rendering". From August 2010 to January 2011 I was a visiting student at Karlstad University, Sweden. M.S. degree in Computer Engineering cum laude (focus on Robotics and Industrial automation) in 2012 from the University of Siena with a thesis entitled "A novel approach for two fingers grasping devices with cutaneous and kinesthetic force feedback". Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control and Robotics in July 2016 from the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Siena and the Department of Advanced Robotics of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (advisor: Prof. Domenico Prattichizzo, co-advisor: Prof. Darwin Caldwell). From 2016 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics of the University of Siena (Siena, Italy).

1.1  Curriculum Vitae

My Curriculum Vitae (CV) is available here. (last update: 25 Jan 2017)

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2  Research & Publications

My research activities are principally focused on

robotics:

teleoperation, design of haptic interfaces

haptics:

kinesthetic and cutaneous feedback, wearable haptics

medicine:

robot-assisted surgery, needle insertion

The complete list of my publications is available here.