Professore Associato

Alberto Mazzoni is Associate Professor in Bioengineering at The Biorobotics Institute of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, where he leads the Computational Neuroengineering Laboratory. He graduated in Theoretical Physics from the University of Pisa and holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the International School of Advanced Studies in Trieste. He worked at the Institute for Scientific Exchange in Turin and at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Paris V and the University of California San Diego. He is the author of more than 100 scientific manuscripts on neural signal analysis and neural network simulation for the diagnosis and the treatment of neurological dysfunctions, from restoring sensory pathways to migraine pathogenesis. In the last years he mainly focused on neurodegenerative diseases: his team discovered novel neural markers of cognitive and motor symptoms of Parkinsons’ Disease and developed novel tools for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s dementia, in both cases combining analysis of neural data from patients to network modeling.