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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)
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.