Research fellow

Tiziana Lencioni is a researcher at the IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS (Milan, Italy), with expertise in gait and upper-limb analysis, dynamic balance, and rehabilitation for neurological disorders including Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and stroke. She holds an MSc in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Pisa and a PhD in Neurosciences from the University of Genoa.
Since 2019 she has been Adjunct Professor at the University of Milan, teaching Biomedical Signal Processing, and she has lectured in professional Master’s programs in bioengineering and rehabilitation technologies (REHABTECH 2023) at Politecnico di Milano, where she also supervises MSc and Master’s students.
Her research focuses on physiological and pathological mechanisms of motor control and the development of innovative assessment protocols and digital markers, with a strong focus on motor recovery. Throughout her career, she have served as Principal Investigator or Unit Responsible for several research projects funded by both national and international institutions, including MANTRAStim funded by Fondazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla (PI), RE WALK EASY funded by Fondazione Regionale per la Ricerca Biomedica (PI), RAISE funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (Formal Collaborator), OTHELLO (GR-2021-12372038) funded by the Italian Ministry of Health (Co-PI) and FEAT and FEAT-Stroke, cascade funding projects under the EUROBENCH – H2020 Programme funded by the European Commission (Formal Collaborator).
She is also the inventor of a patented method for gait detection, designed for control suites of exoskeletons and rehabilitation devices for individuals with neurological diseases.
She has published widely in international journals and collaborates on projects involving motor-cognitive rehabilitation, rehabilitation robotics, wearable sensors, and musculoskeletal modeling. With over 30 scientific papers and ~550 citations (Scopus source), she is recognized as an emerging scholar in neurorehabilitation and movement sciences.