Emma Colamarino
Emma Colamarino is research associate at the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti” of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
She received the M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in Biomedical Engineering in 2014 and the PhD degree in Bioengineering in 2019. Since 2015, she is research collaborator at the laboratory of Neuroelectrical Imaging and Brain-Computer Interfaces of the IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia in Rome, Italy. In 2018 she was Visiting PhD student at the Deparment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London (UK), under the supervision of the prof. Dario Farina. From 2019 to March 2023 she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Sapienza University of Rome.
Her research activity is framed in the
- development of advanced electroencephalographic (EEG) and electromyographic (EMG) signal processing methods
- development, implementation, and validation of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)-based protocols to support the cerebral function recovery.
She is lecturer for the course Advanced Methods for Biomedical Data Analysis (ING-INF/06, 3 CFU), MD in Biomedical Engineering, Sapienza, University of Rome. She was supervisor of 2 MD theses and co-supervisor of 15 MD theses in Biomedical Engineering, 1 MD thesis in Management Engineering, 1 MD thesis in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics,1 MD thesis in Control Engineering. In 2021 she was lecturer for the International Summer/Winter School and Hackathon on Neurorehabilitation Engineering, organized by Christian Medical College Vellore (India) and the University of Queensland and Griffith University (Australia).
She is member of Professional Association of Engineers of Bari (2014), IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2017) and BCI Society (2018).
She is Principal Investigator of 5 research projects funded by Sapienza University of Rome and Investigator of 3 research projects funded by the Ricerca Finalizzata Program of Italian Ministry of Health, 3 research projects funded by the Ricerca Corrente Program of Italian Ministry of Health, 1 research project funded by the Progetti di Ateneo Program of Sapienza University of Rome and 1 European Project funded by HORIZON 2021 Program.
She is reviewer for IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, Frontiers, Journal of Neural Engineering, Measurement Science and Technology, Brain Sciences, Sensors, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Scientific Data.
She partecipated at numerous national and international conferences with oral (4) and poster (8) presentations. She was invited speaker at
- BCI & Neurotech Masterclass organized by g.tec medical engineering GmbH Austria, 2022
- Digital Meet – Challenges and Perspectives in Neurorobotics (University of Padua, Italy), 2021
- Electroencephalographic (EEG) and Electromyographic (EMG) signal processing
- Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)
- Machine learning
- Neurorehabilitation
- 2021: Grant (as Principal Investigator) for 1-year project Avvio alla Ricerca (AR22117A8B38D947) titled MoRe MuSyC: Post-stroke Motor Recovery Muscle Synergy quality Capture received by Sapienza University of Rome
- 2020: Grant (as Principal Investigator) for 1-year project Avvio alla Ricerca (AR220172B9222800) titled PHYDBEC: Physiology-evidence based indices to describe movement in Box and Block test execution received by Sapienza University of Rome
- 2019: Mention as Subject Expert in Advanced Biomedical Data Analysis, Biomedical Signal Processing, Neuroengineering, received by the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti”, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- 2018: Grant (as Principal Investigator) for 1-year project Avvio alla Ricerca (AR11816436CA41E5) titled Synergies-based real-time monitoring to improve post-stroke rehabilitation received by Sapienza University of Rome
- 2018: Student Award to attend the 7th International BCI Meeting “BCIs: Not Getting Lost in Translation (21-25 May 2018, Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California, (USA), financed by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation with the support of IEEE and OpenBCI
- 2017: Mobility Projects Call for Research Doctorates: Grant for the project titled Motor Recovery supported by hybrid Brain-Computer Interface and complex network theory received by Sapienza University of Rome
- 2017: Grant (as Principal Investigator) for 1-year project Avvio alla Ricerca (AR11715C823D7492) titled Multimodal classification of upper limb movements during post-stroke rehabilitation received by Sapienza University of Rome