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 Department 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 (i) development of advanced electroencephalographic (EEG) and electromyographic (EMG) signal processing methods, and (ii) 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 7 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.

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.