Membership in Societies
- IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
- Italian Society of Chaos and Complexity
Memberhip in Boards and Committees
- Technical Committee on Biomedical Signal Processing, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE-EMBS)
- Board, European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations (ESGCO)
- Editorial Board, Frontiers in Physiology, section: Frontiers in Computational Physiology and Medicine
- Editorial Board, International Scholarly Research Notices (former ISRN Biomedical Engineering), Hindawi Publishing Corp.
- Editorial Board, Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, Hindawi Publishing Corp.
- Program Chair, Scientific Committee, Local
Organizing Committee, 8th Conference of the ESGCO (Fai della Paganella,
Trento, Italy; May 2014)
- Associate Editor for the Signal Processing Theme (since
2008), and co-chair of the Track on Connectivity and Causality (since
2011), Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society
- Program Committee, MEDICON - Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (2010, 2016)
- Program Committee, BIOSIGNALS - International Conference on bio-inspired systems and signal processing (2014, 2015, 2016)
- Program Committee, ITISE - International Work-Conference on Time Series (2014, 2015, 2016)
- Program Committee, AMBN - Workshop on Advanced Methodologies for Bayesian Networks (2015)
- Scientific Committee, ESGCO - European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations (2016)
Organizer
of the Conference ESGCO 2014 – 8th Conference of the European Study
Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations, Fai della Paganella, May 25-28,
Trento (Italy), International Conference with 145 attendees
(http://events.unitn.it/en/esgco2014); Program Chair of the Conference
and organizer of the revision process of the contributions (125
peer-reviewed papers, indexed as IEEE proceedings)
Guest Editor of Journal Special Issues
- Lead
Guest Editor, Special Issue “Methodological Advances in Brain
Connectivity” Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine (vol.
2012)
- Guest Editor, Special
Issue “Assessing Causality in Brain Dynamics and Cardiovascular
Control”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (vol. 271,
2013)
- Guest Editor, Special
Issue “8th Conference of the European Study Group on Cardiovascular
Oscillations, ESGCO 2014”, Physiological Measurement (2015)
- Lead Guest Editor, Entropy, Special Issue “Information
Dynamics in Brain and Physiological Networks”
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/Physio_Networks
(2018)
- Guest Editor, Entropy, Special Issue “Assessing Complexity in Physiological Systems through Biomedical Signals Analysis” (2019)
- Guest Editor, Entropy, Topical Collection "Feature Papers in Information Theory" (2020)
Organization of Scientific Sessions at Conferences
- Invited Session ‘Causality in brain dynamics and
cardiovascular control’, 33rd International Conference of the IEEE-EMBS
(EMBC ’11), Boston, MA, USA, Sep 3, 2011
- Invited Session ‘Model-Free and Non-Linear Interdependence
Measures for Neurophysiological and Cardiovascular Time Series
Analysis’, 34th International Conference of the IEEE-EMBS (EMBC ’12),
San Diego, CA, USA, Aug 30, 2012
- Invited Session ‘Entropy-Based Analysis of Physiological
Time Series’, 35th International Conference of the IEEE-EMBS (EMBC
’13), Osaka, Japan, Jul 5, 2013
- Session ‘Multivariate Analysis of Cardiovascular
Variability’, 8th Conference of the European Study Group on
Cardiovascular Oscillations (ESGCO 2014), Trento, Italy, May 27, 2014
- Invited Session ‘Advances in Multivariate Physiological
Variability Analysis’, 36th International Conference of the IEEE-EMBS
(EMBC ’14), Chicago, IL, USA, Aug 29, 2014
- Invited Sessions at the 37th International Conference of
the IEEE-EMBS (EMBC ’15), Milano, Italy, Aug 25-29, 2015: ‘Information
Dynamics in Networks of Biomedical Signals’; ‘Dissecting out
patho-physiological mechanisms via multivariate signal processing
approaches from spontaneous cardiovascular variability series’;
‘Solving the Brain Connectivity Puzzle: Methodological Advancements and
Future Challenges’
- Invited Session ‘Entropy Measures to Evaluate Dynamics’,
International Conference on Biological Oscillations (9th ESGCO meeting
2016), Lancaster, UK, Apr 10-14, 2016
Grant Reviewer Activity
- Research Program University-Region 2010-2012, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Italy (2011)
- Postdoctoral Fellow grant applications, The Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), Belgium (2014)
Degree examination board
- External member, Examination Committee – PhD candidate: Devy Widjaja, KU Leuven, Belgium (2015)
Reviewer for Scientific Journals
- Advances in Adaptive Data Analysis
- Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical
- BioMedical Engineering OnLine
- Biomedical Signal processing and Control
- Brain Connectivity
- Brain Topography
- Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology
- Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
- Cognitive Neurodynamics
- Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
- Computers in Biology and Medicine
- Entropy
- European Journal of Applied Physiology
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering
- International Journal of Statistical Mechanics
- Journal of Neural Engineering
- Journal of Neuroscience Methods
- Methods of Information in Medicine
- Microcirculation
- Neuroimage
- Philosophical Transactions A
- Physical Review Letters
- Physical Review E
- Physiological Research
- Proceedings of the IEEE
- PLOS One
- Physiological Measurement
Funding Information
- 2001: Participant, IV Programma Quadro - Progetto EPIMEDICS
2001 - "Enhanced, Personal, Intelligent and Mobile system for Early
Detection and Interpretation of Cardiological Syndromes" (36 months).
- 2005: Co-Investigator, Provincia Autonoma di Trento -
Commissione Ricerca Scientifica 2005 - "The combined role of visual
attention and stochastic resonance on human perception" (12 months)
- 2005: Co-Investigator, Progetti di Ricerca Tecnologica
Applicata 2005, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto -
"Integrazioni di immagini multimodali in cardiologia interventistica
per il trattamento con ablazione della fibrillazione atriale
permanente" (30 months)
- 2007: Co-Investigator, Progetto Industriale SIMM_PAC 2007 -
"Sistema di monitoraggio multiparametrico per la gestione integrata di
pazienti e soggetti ad alto rischio di malattia cardiovascolare" (24
months)
- 2008: Co-Investigator, Bando FIRB “Futuro in Ricerca” 2008
– “Cardiorespiratory dysregulation in hypertensive cardiomyopathy and
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a nonlinear signal processing
approach to diagnostics, optimizing mechanical ventilation and reducing
peri- and postoperative morbidity” (36 months)
- 2014-2015: Coordinator, Unit "Physiological
and clinical data analysis", Healthcare Research Implementation Program
(IRCS) - special Project of the Autonomous Province of Trento activated
for the development of healthcare research, innovation and training
with aim of fostering technological transferring of research findings
from bench to bedside and facilitate innovation in healthcare delivery.
- 2015: UNCAP - Participant with Bruno Kessler Foundation
(FBK, Trento Italy), H2020-PHC-2014 “Advancing active and healthy
ageing with ICT: ICT solutions for independent living with cognitive
impairment partner institution”, project: "Ubiquitous iNteroperable
Care for Ageing People" (24 months)
- 2015:
Task Leader, Co-Investigator, Bando Progetti di Ricerca 2014 of the
University of Trento – “Of bees and men: Development of an optogenetic
animal model to study oscillatory neural networks”, project involving
the Center of Mind/Brain sciences (CIMeC), Center of Integrative
Biology (CIBIO), Department of Physics and Dept. of Industrial
Engineering of the University of Trento (18 months)
- 2018: Task leader, Co-Investigator, Strategic projects of
the University of Trento – “Brain Network Dynamics - BRANDY” (36
months), coordinator of the external partner unit – University of
Palermo
- 2019: Co-Investigator, Progetti di ricerca di rilevante
interesse nazionale – PRIN 2017, project no. 2017WZFTZP, “Stochastic
forecasting in complex systems”, participant in the Unit “Universitą di
Palermo”
- 2020: Co-Investigator, Progetti Obiettivo di Piano
Sanitario Nazionale, “VALUTAZIONE NON INVASIVA DELLO STRESS
LAVORO-CORRELATO PER LA PREVENZIONE DEGLI INFORTUNI NELLE STRUTTURE
SANITARIE DELLA REGIONE SICILIANA”
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