Marco Iosa
Santa Lucia Foundation, I.R.C.C.S., senior researcher
At the University of Rome “Foro Italico” from December 2005 to November 2008 as post-doc fellow
Marco Iosa is a mechanical engineer with Ph.D. in Neurofisiology. From 2002 to 2005 he worked in the Department of Neuromotor Physiology at Santa Lucia Foundation. From 2005 to 2009 he had post-doc grants at the Department of Human Movement and Sport Sciences of University of Rome “Foro Italico”. Since 2009, he has been working in Fondazione Santa Lucia in the “Clinical Laboratory of Experimental Neurorehabilitation”. His research interests include neurorehabilitation, biomechanics and motor control. He is author of more than 40 scientific papers with more than 400 citations. He is Editor of the International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research, and of some special issues on other journals. He is contractor professor of Biomechanics and Quantitative Analysis at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” at the School of Medicine and Surgery, course of Physiotherapy.
He worked in the European Project Better, and he is actually working on the European project ABC (Augmented BNCI Communication) and is work package leader of the project Symbitron (Symbiotic man-machine interactions in wearable exoskeletons to enhance mobility for paraplegics). His was awarded by Italian Society of Neurological Rehabilitation for the best work on human movement analysis in 2011.