Prof. FERRANTE SIMONA
Associate professor
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Simona Ferrante received the M.S. degree in biomedical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in bioegineering from the Politecnico di Milano, in 2002 and 2006, respectively.
She is an Associate Professor at the Electronics Information and Bioengineering Department, Politecnico di Milano, where she teaches e-health methods, Capstone Projects and Progetto [Informazione]. Her research activities are carried out at the Neuroengineering and Medical Robotics Laboratory (NearLab) in the field of neurorehabilitation, functional electrical stimulation and e-health. She is mainly focused on the development and validation of technologies for the rehabilitation, the transparent monitoring and the assessment of neurological patients and fragile people.
She was the principal investigator of a project funded by the Ministry of Health (GR-2010-2312228) and has been involved in several projects (MUNDUS, EU-FP7 ICT; RETRAINER, H2020 IA ICT). She was the responsible for Politecnico di Milano for the European project MOVECARE (g.a 732158) and for the national project (STRIVE, GR-2016-02365049). She is currently the coordinator of the European Project ESSENCE (g.a. 101016112) and responsible for Politecnico di Milano of the national project STRIVE. She is co-author of more than 80 papers in international journals indexed in Scopus (H-index 26, 2022).
She is an Associate Professor at the Electronics Information and Bioengineering Department, Politecnico di Milano, where she teaches e-health methods, Capstone Projects and Progetto [Informazione]. Her research activities are carried out at the Neuroengineering and Medical Robotics Laboratory (NearLab) in the field of neurorehabilitation, functional electrical stimulation and e-health. She is mainly focused on the development and validation of technologies for the rehabilitation, the transparent monitoring and the assessment of neurological patients and fragile people.
She was the principal investigator of a project funded by the Ministry of Health (GR-2010-2312228) and has been involved in several projects (MUNDUS, EU-FP7 ICT; RETRAINER, H2020 IA ICT). She was the responsible for Politecnico di Milano for the European project MOVECARE (g.a 732158) and for the national project (STRIVE, GR-2016-02365049). She is currently the coordinator of the European Project ESSENCE (g.a. 101016112) and responsible for Politecnico di Milano of the national project STRIVE. She is co-author of more than 80 papers in international journals indexed in Scopus (H-index 26, 2022).
