Research portfolio

Projects

Selected funded and industrial research projects, separated by overall project leadership and participation with responsibility for a unit, activity, or work package.

Principal Investigator or Project Coordinator

2025–2030

RehAI — Pioneering AI-Driven Solutions for Advanced Rehabilitation Services

Role: Project Coordinator. Italian Fund for Applied Sciences (FISA 2023, Artificial Intelligence). Development of reliable, personalized AI services for neurological rehabilitation in clinical and home settings.

2022–2024

ChildHand

Role: Project Coordinator. University of Pisa PRA project on an AI platform for customized diagnostic processes in children with early brain damage.

2022–2023

MIMA — Distributed Control of Micro and Macro Robots

Role: Project Coordinator. GNCS-INdAM project involving several Italian universities.

2014

Distributed Control in Mobile Robotics Systems

Role: Principal Investigator. Transnational Access project within the EU FP7 VisionAir programme, hosted at the 3DICC/STZAKI laboratories in Budapest.

2025–2026

Intelligent Padel Match Monitoring

Role: Scientific Lead. Industry-funded research project with Bonfiglioli Srl on a smart computer-vision box for monitoring padel matches.

2024–2025

Machine Learning for miRNA and Iron-Overload Analysis

Role: Scientific Lead. Industry-funded research project with Energee3 Srl on bioinformatics and patient stratification.

Participation, unit leadership, and work-package responsibility

2022–2027

AInCP

Role: Co-scientific Coordinator. Horizon Europe project on AI-supported personalized motor assessment and upper-limb rehabilitation for children with unilateral cerebral palsy.

2023–2027

Circle U. — CU2030

Role: Leader of WP6, “Creating a fully functional inter-university digital campus,” within the European University Alliance.

2023–2025

FAVORITE

Role: University of Pisa Unit Scientific Lead and Substitute Principal Investigator. PRIN PNRR project studying autism-spectrum-disorder models through experimental methods and machine learning.

2023–2027

Fit4MedRob — Fit for Medical Robotics

Role: University of Pisa Unit Lead and Co-scientific Lead of Activity 7, “Digital Infrastructure, Environments, and Services.”

2022–2025

THE — Tuscany Health Ecosystem

Role: Co-scientific Lead of the University of Pisa unit in Spoke 3, focused on advanced technologies, methods, and materials for health and well-being.

2021–2023

I-POTERI

Role: University of Pisa Unit Scientific Lead. Regional project on enhanced and remotely monitored post-operative rehabilitation.

2023–2024

MONITOR CAR-T

Role: University of Pisa Unit Scientific Lead. Gilead Fellowship project on DNA-methylation signatures as predictive biomarkers for CAR-T response.

Additional proposal leadership: INSIDE (2024), an integrated ICT supply chain for digital health, was approved under FISA 2022 but not funded because of budget limitations.