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Martina Coscia

Born in Carrara (MS) Italy, the 21/05/1983. Nationality: Italian.

Personal Profile I am a Biomedical Engineer with a PhD in Biorobotics. Currently, I am a Post-doctoral fellow at the Translational Neural Engineering Laboratory at the EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland. My research is about neurorehabilitation of stroke subjects. In particular, I am interested in the study of the motor control of post-stroke subjects in order to design innovative strategies for neurorehabilitation.

Key Skills and Qualities Languages: Italian and English.

Operative system: Windows and Linux.

Programming Languages: C, C++, and Visual Basic.

Software: Matlab, Scilab, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Mathcad.

Specific Equipments: motion analysis systems (Vicon, Elite Clinic), EMG and EEG signals acquisition systems.

Acquisition, elaboration and analysis of kinematics, EMG and EEG signals.

Experience in the development of cognitive games for the evaluation and treatment of subjects affected by dementia.

3 years of experience working with elderly people

and neurological patients in a clinical environment.

Emergency rescuer volunteer at “Pubblica Assistenza di Carrara” (attested protocols: Basic Life Support, Pediatric Basic Life Support, and Basic Life Support Defibrillation.

B driver license.

Italian cerfication to practice as an Engineer (n. 865 Ordine Professionale della provincia di Massa-Carrara).

Member of the Italian Society for Motion Analysis in Clinics (Società Italiana di Analisi del Movimento in Clinica SIAMOC)

Flexible, motivated, optimistic, enthusiastic and curious.

Awards

March 2013. Talented Woman "Carrara premia le sue donne" promoted by the municipality of Carrara, for the courage in undertaking a career in science and the perseverance in the cultural commitment. November 2012. Winner of the student paper competition at the ICNR 2012, Toledo, Spain. January 2011. Guinness World Record for the “Largest Christmas Stocking” achieved as member of the Pubblica Assistenza Carrara e sezioni.

Employment History November 2013 – current Translational Neural Engineering Laboratory, EPFL,

Lausanne, Switzerland.

Post-doctoral fellow. Senior researcher in neurophysiology, modeling, control of robotic systems for motor functions restoration. Teaching assistant. Supervision of master and PhD students. Contribution to grant reporting, meetings, applications.

May 2013 – current Institute of Neuroscience, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy.

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Collaborator. Development of games for the project "Train the Brain: clinical and experimental study of the efficacy of cognitive training and physical exercise in dementia".

November 2012 – November 2013 Translational Neural Engineering Laboratory, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Research fellow in neurophysiology.

August 2011 – August 2012 Motion Analysis Lab, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital,

Boston, MA, USA.

Research fellow. Development of innovative methods for the evaluation of the robotic rehabilitative intervention.

November 2009 – October 2013

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

PhD student. Research project: Development of control algorithms and innovative rehabilitative strategies for robotic devices for neurorehabilitation.

April 2009 – November 2009 Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

Research fellow. Implementation of the control on LINUX RTAI OS and open source Co.Me.Di drivers for a robotic platform aimed at the motor rehabilitation of lower limbs.

Education and Training Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (07/10/2013) PhD in Biorobotics. 110 cum laude

2006 – 2009

Università di Pisa (17/02/2009) M. Sc Degree in Biomedical Engineering Curriculum: Biomedical Technologies. 110/110 Thesis: Development of an innovative methodology for the functional assessment of the upper limb. Università di Pisa (17/02/2006) B. Sc Degree in Biomedical Engineering Curriculum: Industrial Engineering. 106/110 Thesis: Study of an injectable polymeric system for the substitution of the intervertebral nucleus pulposus. Liceo Scientifico “G. Marconi”, Carrara, Italy 2001

Diploma, Computer Science National Program. 100/100

References Prof. Silvestro Micera ([email protected]); Vito Monaco, PhD ([email protected] ); Prof. Paolo Bonato,

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([email protected] ).

Publications

1) "Effects of early and intensive neuro-rehabilitative treatment on muscle synergies in acute post-stroke patients: a pilot study", Tropea P, Monaco V., Coscia M., Posteraro F, Micera M., Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2013, 10:103. 2) "Design and evaluation of NEUROBike: a neurorehabilitative platform for beddriden post-stroke patients", Monaco V., Galardi G., Coscia M., Martelli D., Micera S., IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2012 Nov 20(6) 845-52. 3) "Effect of gravity compensation on upper limb muscle synergies during reaching: preliminary results on healthy subjects", Coscia M., Cheung V.C.K, Tropea P., Koenig A., Monaco V, Bennis C, Micera S, Bonato P, Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation, Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1:141-145, 2013. 4) "Stroke involves different reorganization of muscle synergies between legs during walking", Coscia M, Monaco V, Martelloni C, Chisari C, Micera S, Gait&Posture, 33, Supplement 1(0): S3, 2011. International conferences: 1) International Conference of RehabiIitation Robotics ICORR 2009 – July 2009, “Effects of an upper limb robot-mediated therapy on paretic upper limb in chronic hemiparetic subjects: a biomechanical and EEG-based approach for functional assessment”, S. Mazzoleni, M.Coscia, G.Rossi, S.Aliboni, F.Posteraro, M.C.Carrozza. 2) International Neurorehabilitation Symposium (INRS)- Febrary 12-14 2009, "Effects of a robotic therapy for the upper limb of chronic post-stroke subjects: a biomechanical and EEG-based approach", S. Mazzoleni, M. Coscia, F. Posteraro, P. Dario, M. C. Carrozza. 3) XVIII Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology (ISEK 2010) – June16-19 2010, “A model for the reconstruction of leg joint trajectories during walking based on Fourier series”, M. Coscia, V. Monaco, S. Micera. 4) XVIII Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology (ISEK 2010) – June16-19 2010, “Stroke involves different reorganization of muscle synergies between legs during walking”, Monaco V., Coscia M, Martelloni C, Chisari C, Micera S. 5) 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2010)- August 31-September 4 2010, “Evaluation of leg joint trajectories while carrying out passive manipulation by NEUROBike”, M. Coscia, G. Galardi, V. Monaco, S. Micera. 6) International Conference of RehabiIitation Robotics ICORR 2011 – June 29-July 1 2011, “Computational aspects of MN activity estimation: a case study with post-stroke subjects”, M. Coscia, V. Monaco, M. Capogrosso, C. Chisari, S. Micera. 7) 33nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2011)- August 30-September 3 2011, “Cost function tuning improves muscle force estimation computed by static optimization during walking”, V. Monaco, M. Coscia, S. Micera. 8) I International Conferences of Neurorehabilitation ICNR 2012, Toledo Spain 14-16 November 2012, "Effect of gravity compensation on upper limb muscle synergies during reaching: preliminary results from healthy subjects", M. Coscia, V.C.K Cheung, P. Tropea, A. Koenig, V. Monaco, C. Bennis, S. Micera, P. Bonato. Winner of the student paper competition. 9) 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, San Diego USA 6-8 November 2013, "How the selection of muscles influences their synergies? A preliminary study using real data". Pirondini E, Coscia M, Crema A, Mancuso M, Micera S.