Cristina Becchio

Cristina Becchio is Professor of Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. Her research focuses on how mental states are reflected in movement kinematics. Her laboratory has cracked the kinematic code and revealed how x encoded in movement kinematics can be read during action observation. This work answers questions about computations underlying decision-making, learning and social interaction, with significant implications for understanding brain disorders.
She studied philosophy and neuroscience. After earning her M.Sc. in Philosophy from the University of Turin, she pursued a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science. Shen then moved on to post-doctoral work on sensorimotor control and has since then been working on motor cognition. She has held positions as Associate Professor and Full Professor at the University of Turin and served as the Coordinator of the Center for Human Technologies at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa. Her research has been recognized with several awards, including an ERC Consolidator Grant and an ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant.

Luisa Damiano

Luisa Damiano (PhD) is full professor of logic and philosophy of science at the IULM University, where she directs the PhD School for Communication Studies and co-directs the research center CRiSiCo. She previously served as associate professor of logic and philosophy of science at the University of Messina (2015-2021) and at IULM University (2021-2023). Her main research areas are: Epistemology of Complex Systems; Epistemology of the Cognitive Sciences; Epistemology of the Sciences of the Artificial. Since 2007, she has been working on these topics with scientific teams. Among her publications there are many articles, the books Unità in dialogo (Bruno Mondadori, 2009) and Living with robots (with P. Dumouchel, Harvard University Press, 2017, originally published in French by Seuil, 2016, in Korean by HEEDAM, 2019, and in Italian by Raffaello Cortina, 2019; in publication in Chinese by Peking University Press) and several co-edited journal special issues.

Alessandra Pedrocchi

Alessandra Pedrocchi (MSC in Electronics Eng.; PhD in Bioeng) is currently full professor at the Department of Electronics, Computer Science, and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano, where she teaches Neuroengineering and Biomedical Instrumentation and contributes to the Medical Device Regulation class for PhD students.

She is one of the founders of the Nearlab, the NeuroEngineering And Medical Robotics lab, where, she has overseen the Neuroengineering section (www.nearlab.polimi.it). Since 2019 she has been one of the founders of the interdepartmental laboratory "WE-COBOT LAB Wearable and collaborative robotics Laboratory".

Alessandra’s research interest is neuroengineering, including biomechanics in motor control, new technologies for neurorehabilitation, with particular emphasis on exoskeletons, Functional Electrical Stimulation, and the study of the correlation between brain plasticity and functional recovery, computational neuroscience, and eXplainability of Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Medicine.

Nicola Vitiello

Nicola Vitiello is Associate Professor with The BioRobotics Institute (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, SSSA, Pisa, Italy) where he leads the Wearable Robotics Laboratory. He is co-author of more than 80 ISI/Scopus papers and co-inventor of more than 20 patents/patent applications. He served as the Scientific Secretary of the EU FP7 CA-RoboCom project, and he was the scientific coordinator of the EU FP7 CYBERLEGs project. Currently he is the scientific coordinator of the H2020-ICT-CYBERLEGs Plus Plus project, the national project MOTU funded by INAIL and is partner of the H2020-ICT-REHYB and H2020-ICT-CONBOTS projects. He is co-founder, director and advisor of IUVO Srl, a spin-off company of SSSA.

Lorenzo Molinari Tosatti

Lorenzo Molinari Tosatti is a Research Director at the National Research Council. Since 2018, he has served as the Director of the Institute of Systems and Industrial Intelligent Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing (STIIMA) at the National Research Council. In 2021, he was appointed President of the Territorial Research Area of Milan 1 within the National Research Council. He was also a member of the Expert Commission responsible for drafting the PNR National Research Program 2021-2027, focusing on the Intervention Area of Innovation for the manufacturing industry within the Research and Digital Innovation, Industry, and Aerospace sectors.

Lorenzo Molinari Tosatti has authored over two hundred scientific and technical publications published in books, journals, and national and international conference proceedings. Additionally, he holds 14 patents, six of which are international. Of these six patents, three are owned by leading national companies that hold a significant position in their respective international markets.

Andrea Serino

Andrea Serino, Prof, PhD is Professor at the University Hospital of Lausanne, where he directs the Neurorehab Research Center and MySpace Lab. The lab investigates the neural basis of body representation in space for action, perception and consciousness. Neurorehab has the mission of translating this knowledge to develop novel solutions for neurological disease.