Valerio Arcobelli is a research fellow at the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi" at the University of Bologna. His main research interests focus on the development of innovative solutions for acquiring and analyzing human movement data in contexts where mobility is impaired due to pathological conditions. During his PhD, he designed and developed an advanced system of sensorized crutches integrated with a lower-limb exoskeleton to create innovative and personalized control strategies. He contributed to several clinical studies, both with the tools he developed and through advanced methodologies for analyzing gait disorders. Additionally, he has deepened his expertise in medical informatics, with a particular focus on technologies for the secure and interoperable management of clinical data, essential for advancing medical research and supporting decision-making processes in healthcare.
Scientific Activities
From November 2024: Post-doc research fellow at the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi" at the University of Bologna. His research project is titled "Health data ingestion, integration, and analytics for mobile and wearable devices."
March 2024 - July 2024: Visiting researcher at the Balance Disorder Lab at the Oregon Health and Science University, where he contributed to data collection and analysis in clinical studies involving populations with gait and/or balance disorders.
November 2021 – October 2024: PhD candidate in Health and Technologies (XXXVII cycle) at the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi", University of Bologna. His dissertation is titled "Smart Crutches for monitoring recovery and motor control in lower limb exoskeletons: development and exploratory clinical testing."
January 2021 – October 2021: Research fellow at the National Research Council - Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (CNR-IEIIT), Turin. His research project, titled "ReHome – ICT Solutions for Telerehabilitation of Cognitive and Motor Disabilities Originating from Neurological Diseases," focused on implementing ICT technologies for telerehabilitation.
October 2019 – April 2020: Visiting master’s student at Imperial College London, where he developed a thesis titled "Instrumented Flexible Glove and Stochastic Filtering Method for Pathological Tremors Recordings."
Professional Career
July 2020 – January 2021: Technical consultant at AYES Srl, focusing primarily on the automation of bench tests using LabVIEW.
Education
July 2020: Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino.
July 2017: Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Magna Graecia of Catanzaro.
