Elena De Momi MSc, PhD

Elena De Momi, MSc in Biomedical Engineering in 2002, Ph.D. in Bioengineering in 2006, currently Assistant Professor in Electronic Information and Bioengineering Department (DEIB) of Politecnico di Milano. She is a co-founder of the Neuroengineering and Medical Robotics Laboratory, in 2008, being responsible for the Medical Robotics section. IEEE Senior Member, she is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Robotics Research, of the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Frontiers in Robotics and AI and Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing. From 2016 she has been an Associate Editor of IEEE ICRA, IROS and BioRob and she is currently Publication Co-Chair of ICRA 2019. She is responsible for the lab course in Medical Robotics and of the course on Clinical Technology Assessment of the MSc degree in Biom. Eng. at Politecnico di Milano and she serves in the board committee of the Ph.D. course in Bioengineering.

Her academic interests include image-processing, virtual environments, augmented reality and simulators, teleoperation, haptics, medical robotics, human-robot interaction. She participated in several EU funded projects in the field of Surgical Robotics (ROBOCAST, ACTIVE and EuRoSurge, where she was PI for partner POLIMI). She is currently PI for POLIMI of the EDEN2020 project, aimed at developing a neurosurgery drug delivery system and of the ATLAS MSCA-ITN-2018-EJD. She has been evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission in FP6, FP7 and H2020.