Lunardini Francesca

Francesca Lunardini received the bachelor’s and master’s degrees (Hons.) in biomedical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2009 and 2012, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in bioengineering from the Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2016. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on methods and electromyographic-based technologies to study and train motor learning and motor control in children affected by movement disorders. She was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, to deepen the study of motor control. She moved back to the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, where she currently works as a Post-Doctoral Researcher, focusing her research on e-health and telemonitoring. She is interested in technologies for early detection, the support for diagnosis, the monitoring of symptoms, and the rehabilitation of neurological patients and frailty subjects. She collaborated in several national and international projects: Multi-center trial of Augmented Sensory Feedback in Children with Dyskinetic CP (NIH), to study the effect of biofeedback training in children with cerebral palsy; STRIVE (Italian Ministry of Health), to develop an ICT system aimed at monitoring patients with severe disorder of consciousness, MOVECARE (H2020), to develop an intelligent and transparent monitoring system for seniors, and ESSENCE (H2020), to develop an assistive and monitoring platform for elders at risk of frailty and children at risk of specific learning difficulties. Dr. Lunardini was awarded a starting grant from the Italian Ministry of Health–Ricerca Finalizzata, to conduct her research, as a PI, at the C. Besta Neurological Institute, in 2020. The thesis received the Bioengineering Ph.D. Thesis Award by the National Research Council of Italy—Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering.