Elena De Momi, MSc in Biomedical Engineering in 2002, PhD in Bioengineering in 2006, currently Assistant Professor in Electronic Information and Bioengineering Department (DEIB) of Politecnico di Milano. She was co-founder of the Neuroengineering and Medical Robotics Laboratory, in 2008, being responsible of the Medical Robotics section. She has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Robotics Research and of the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems. In 2016 she has been an Associated Editor of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Her academic interests include image-processing, virtual environments, augmented reality and simulators, teleoperation, haptics, medical robotics, neuromechanics. She participated to several EU funded projects in the field of Surgical Robotics (ROBOCAST, ACTIVE and EuRoSurge, where she was PI for partner POLIM). She is currently PI for POLIMI of the EDEN2020 project, aimed at developing a neurosurgery drug delivery system. She has been evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission in FP6 and FP7.

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