Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) coordinates HERMES and provides expertise in vitro electrophysiology and tissue engineering. IIT will design biocompatible biomaterials for brain tissue bioengineering and will contribute in vitro electrophysiology to characterize the electrical activity of the bioengineered brain tissue and its interaction with mammalian brain tissue and with the neuromorphic neuroprosthesis.
This is the IIT team of the project, click on the name to expand the bio:
I am a Medical Doctor and I hold a PhD in Biophysics. I use electrophysiology techniques (field potential, MEA, patch-clamp, sharp electrode recording) to study neuronal electrical activity in health and disease both at the single neuron and at the neuronal network level. I have a strong background in epilepsy research and a keen interest in neural engineering. I have built my multidisciplinary expertise across 15 years of national and international research experience, starting with my Master’s Thesis.
My current research focuses on the development of intelligent biohybrid systems as functional brain repair strategies that are tailored to the individual scale.
I am co-PI in the research line of Enhanced Regenerative Medicine where I lead the tissue engineering unit. I am a biotechnologist and I hold a PhD in cancer biology.
During my years as Postdoc, my background in cellular and molecular biology has been widen to embrace biomaterials and tissue engineering, applied to different fields including neuroscience.
My research activity focuses on exploiting biomaterials to engineer a bioinspired extracellular matrix the supports cell organization into nervous tissue and promote brain repair and understanding how the cell-biomaterial interaction influences cell fate.
I am a pharmaceutical chemist and I hold a Ph.D. in Physics and Nanoscience, with a thesis on biomimetic synthesis and characterization of hybrid organic/inorganic materials for controlled drug delivery and imaging.
In the tissue engineering unit my research activities focus on the design of bioinspired and bioactive exrtracellular matrices to support brain tissue regeneration.
I am currently a Post-Doc in the tissue engineering unit of the Enhanced Regenerative Medicine Laboratory, where I focus on biomaterial development, neural cell culture and tissue engineering.
I am a Biotechnologist and a Radiology Technician with expertise in cellular neurobiology, neurogenesis, cancer biology and (f)MRI. In my former work, I have focused on establishing an encapsulated-cell based therapy for temporal lobe epilepsy treatment. In HERMES, I am contributing to open-loop and closed-loop MEA electrophysiology applied to hippocampal organoids and brain slices
Past members:
I am a biologist with a PhD in Neurobiology.
I have a background in electrophysiology, cell imaging and optogenetics, and I am currently a Post-Doc in the electrophysiology unit of the Enhanced Regenerative Medicine Laboratory.
 | Funded by European Union's Horizon 2020 |