Silvestro Micera, guest at the PNC Distinguished Lectures
09.12.2025
As part of the seminars organized by the “Padua Neuroscience Center – PNC”, Silvestro Micera, Professor of Bioelectronics at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA, Pisa) and at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland) where he is holding the Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Translational NeuroEngineering, will give a talk entitled “Implantable and wearable modular neuroprostheses to understand and restore neural functions” on Thursday, 18 December 2025, at the Fondazione Ricerca Biomedica Avanzata VIMM (Sala Seminari, Via Orus 2 – Padova (Building A, Ground Floor).
Neuroengineering is a novel discipline combining engineering including micro and nanotechnology, electrical and mechanical, and computer science with cellular, molecular, cognitive neuroscience with two main goals: (i) increase our basic knowledge of how the nervous system works; (ii) develop systems able to restore functions in people affected by different types of neural disability.
In this presentation, it will be provided several examples on how implantable interfaces can be used to restore sensory (tactile, position and thermal feedback for hand prostheses, vision), motor (grasping, locomotion), and autonomic functions (for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular problems) and how they can be used also to understand cognitive functions such as language and decision making.
The seminar is held in English, and it is open to professors, researchers, lecturers, Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows and grant holders.
Attendance is free as long as seats are available.
