Mini-invasive robotic manipulator

Selene Tognarelli is a PostDoc and Technologist at SSSA where she works both on technical aspects and project management. Her main research interests involve biomedical robotics, microsystem technology and high fidelity simulator for medical training, with a special attention to the mechatronic aspects of robotic devices. She received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree (magna cum Laude) in biomedical engineering at the University of Pisa, Italy and she obtained a PhD degree in Innovative Technologies, Area: Bio-Robotics at The BioRobotics Institute of SSSA in 2011. She spent a period as visiting researcher at Nanorobotic Laboratory of the École Polytechnique de Montréal (Montréal, Quebec, Canada) where she was involved together with the NanoRobotique team in a national project about the guidance and navigation of a custom ferromagnetic catheter though MRI gradients. She has a growing track record in biorobotics, and in this field she is co-authoring high-impact publications indexed. She is the main author of more than 40 papers in the field of minimally invasive robotic surgery and high fidelity simulation in ISI journals and international conferences. She has H-index 13 in Google Scholar and 10 in Scopus. She is also inventor of 5 international patents. She regularly serves as a reviewer for international conferences in the field of bioengineering and biorobotics, and international scientific journals. She is in charge of support teaching activities for MsC students in Bionics Engineering, she was supervisor of 17 MsC thesis in Biomedical Engineering and 1 in Bionics Engineering and she is currently tutor of 1 Marie Curie PhD students in BioRobotics. She has a long-lasting experience in project management; she attended a Master on Project Management in 2012/2013. She served as Project manager of both national (e.g. MICROVAST, S3INNEO, VALVETECH) and international (e.g. FUTURA2020 – H2020, FUTURA – FP7, ARAKNES – FP7) projects and from October 2019 she is was appointed as expert for the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Individual Fellowships (MSCA-IF) evaluation and included in the expert remote evaluation panel.