Martha Gandolla MS

Marta Gandolla (Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2009 and European Ph.D. with honors in Bioengineering in 2013 at the Politecnico di Milano) is a Researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano. In 2011 she carried out part of her PhD project at the Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience at the UCL Institute of Neurology (UK), under the supervision of Dr. N Ward. Since 2013 she has been a research fellow at the NearLab-Laboratory of Neuroengineering and Medical Robotics (Politecnico di Milano), with which she currently collaborates on interdisciplinary projects. In 2016 she was a visiting fellow at the Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation (Centro S. Maria della Provvidenza-Rome), under the supervision of Prof. Lei Padova.

Marta Gandolla's scientific research investigates neurological motor rehabilitation and motor assistance during the activities of the daily life of frail people or during the strenuous activities of workers. His research interests concern the design, simulation, prototyping, and validation of rehabilitation and assistive technologies, and in particular, exoskeletons, with particular attention to hybrid cooperative control and the connection between neuro-signals and robotic movement. The mechanical design of rehabilitation and assistive devices aims to allow movement to feel as natural as possible, and control design towards patient-initiated/controlled cooperative approaches, to include the user's personal motor programming in the control loop. check.

Marta Gandolla's research makes use of skills and an interdisciplinary work team, with international and national collaborations. Furthermore, she is interested in the central mechanisms of rehabilitation and neurological relearning. As far as teaching is concerned, she is involved in the Applied Mechanics and Biomedical Instrumentation courses of the Milan Polytechnic, in the Automation and Mechatronics course of the MedTec joint program between Humanitas University and the Milan Polytechnic, and in the RehabTec Master.