Opening of the GNB School

Sport bioengineering exploits engineering principles to evaluate and enhance sport performances and protect athletes’ safety. A timely monitoring of sports and exercise, aimed at improving performance as well as preventing or recovering from injury, is a key part of the contemporary sports and fitness industry and entails the use of technology to collect and analyze data.

Bioengineering potential in this field has been greatly expanded by the rise of bigdata science and wearable technology allowing possible and affordable data collection, for mainstream sports. Transforming raw data into actionable insights requires rooting this transformation into a trans-domain competence which should nurture research development towards bridging the gap between bioengineering development and sports stakeholders.

The XLII GNB school brings students to consider the specificity of the sport domain in problems and applications of biomedical engineering, combining the need for extremely accurate information with the challenge of unfavorable measuring and data analysis scenarios. Indeed, the applications are not limited to elite athletes and high-level sport clubs. Rather, they extend to other contexts where resources may be lacking (e.g., young athletes, non-professional athletes, athletes/persons with disability).

Benefitting from the on-field experience of lecturers, mentors, and keynote speakers, the school will follow a hands-on teaching approach. Students will collaboratively explore the building bricks of defining an athlete’s profile for safe and efficient performance.

The school will widen the perspective on the students bioengineering culture, allowing them to intersect the increasingly important sports monitoring research and practice.

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Lecture infos

School: XLII Annual School 2023 – The Bioengineering of Sport

Date: 11.09.2023 - 09:00

Speaker

Burattini L. (UNIVPM), Camomilla V. (UNIROMA4), Knaflitz M.(POLITO)

Laura Burattini is currently Full Professor of Bioengineering and President of the Unified Council of the Biomedical Engineering Degree at the Department of Information Engineering of the Università Politecnica delle Marche, where she is also responsible of the “Cardiovascular Bioengineering Lab” and “Bioengineering Lab”. She joins several scientific associations and is member of the Board of Directors of the Italian National Group of Bioengineering (GNB) and of the International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology (ISCE). She is currently associate Editor of “Frontiers in Network Physiology” and Editorial Board of “Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology”. Her main research interests are processing, modelling and classification of biomedical signals and images, particularly of the cardiac, nervous, motor, and metabolic physiological systems. She is author more than 100 journal papers and 150 proceedings of conferences.----------------------------------- Valentina Camomilla holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering (2004) and is currently Associate Professor of Biongineering at the University of Rome Foro Italico (Italy). Her research focuses on qualitative and quantitative technique and performance analysis in sports; increasing the resolution of human movement analysis; and developing anatomical calibration approaches. She served as Director of Interuniversity Centre of Bioengineering of the Human Neuromusculoskeletal System (2016-2019) and in the board of directors of the 3-D Analysis of Human Movement Technical Group of the International Society of Biomechanics (2018-2021). Associate Editor for Journal of Biomechanics (2022-), Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (2019- ), Sports Biomechanics (2019-) and Biomechanics (2021-); she co-authored 65 peer-reviewed articles, 100+ conference proceedings, and co-supervised 4 post-docs, 12 PhD candidates, and 70 M.Sc. student theses.--------------------------------------- Marco Knaflitz received the Italian Laurea in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. Since 1990 he has been with the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni of Politecnico di Torino, where he is presently Full Professor of Biomedical Engineering and he teaches Biomedical Instrumentation, Implantable Active Devices, and Design of Programmable Medical Devices. From 1986 to 1990 he was with the Neuromuscular Research Center of Boston University, (Boston, MA, USA), as Research Assistant Professor. From 1995 to 2000 he was appointed Adjunct Professor at the Union Institute of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH, USA). Since 1985 he has been active in the fields of design of biomedical instrumentation, biomedical signal analysis, safe use of medical devices, and development of instrumentation and algorithms for the non-invasive analysis of the neuromuscular system. Since October 2012 to October 2018 he was the Head (Pro Tempore) of the College of Biomedical Engineering of Politecnico di Torino. Moreover, since November 2020 he has been appointed as Member of the Ethics Committee of Politecnico di Torino. Prof. Knaflitz published over 130 contributions as scientific papers, book chapters, or proceedings subjected to peer review.