Maria C. Carrozza Professor
Prof. Maria Chiara Carrozza received the Laurea
degree in physics from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1990 and the PhD in
Engineering at Scuola Superiore Sant Anna (SSSA), in 1994. Since November 2006,
she is Full Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Robotics at Scuola Superiore
Sant’Anna. Since Nov. 2004 to Oct. 2007, she was Director of the Research
Division and elected Member of the national Board of the Italian association of
Biomedical Engineering. Since Nov. 2007, she is Director of Scuola Superiore
Sant’Anna. She was visiting professor at the Technical University of Wien,
Austria, with a graduate course entitled Biomechatronics, she is involved in the
scientific management of the Italy-Japan joint laboratory for Humanoid Robotics
ROBOCASA, Waseda University, Tokyo, and she is Guest Professor at the Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou, China. She has scientific and coordination
responsibilities within several research projects, funded under the Sixth and
Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union (some recent projects are
Nanobiotact, Nanobiotouch, Evryon, Smarthand, Neurobotics, Robotcub, Cyberhand)
and under national and regional programmes (some recent projects are OpenHand,
Tectum, RITA, Neuro-Bike, Enable). Since 2004 to 2007, she was the
Coordinator of the ARTS Lab of SSSA. In the period 2006-2009 she supervised more
than 30 PhD, Master and Bachelor theses and she currently leads a group of about
35 researchers, PhD students and research assistants. She is author of several
scientific papers (more than 60 ISI papers and more than 100 papers in referred
conference proceedings) and of 12 national and international patents. She served
as Editor of several Special Issues of International Journals, as Member of
Committees for International Conference organization and she gave several
invited lectures and plenary speeches to national and international conferences
and she is a recipient or numerous awards. She is member and of the IEEE
Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) and of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine
and Biology. She is member of the RAS Technical Committee “Micro/Nano Robotics
and Automation”. Her research interests are in ambient assisted living,
technical aids, biorobotics, rehabilitation engineering, bionics, cybernetic
hands, humanoid robotics, systems for functional replacements and augmentation,
biomechatronic interfaces, tactile sensors, artificial skin, applications of
renewable energy to robotics and of robotics to renewable energy.