Giuseppe Averta

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About Giuseppe Averta

Giuseppe is currently Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic of Turin. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pisa, where he got his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and his M.S. in Robotics, with honors, in 2013 and 2016, respectively. In 2020, he obtained a Ph.D. in Robotics cum laude from the same institution with the dissertation "Human-aware robotics: Modeling human motor skills for the design, planning, and control of a new generation of robotic devices" which has been selected as the winner of the Georges Giralt PhD Award 2021 (for the best European PhD thesis). He is also an Italian Institute of Technology Alumnus. In 2019, he was a visiting student at the Eric P. and Evelyn E. Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation Group at MIT. Giuseppe’s research interests are in the development of intelligent robotic devices, in the study of human movement in healthy and pathological conditions, and in the implementation of human-inspired design, planning, and control guidelines for autonomous, collaborative, assistive, and prosthetic robots.