Draft:Michele Giugliano
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{{Short description|Italian Bioengineer and Physiologist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Michele Giugliano
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| nationality = Italian
| fields = Neural Engineering
| workplaces = University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
| alma_mater = Polytechnic University of Milan (PhD)
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| doctoral_advisor = Massimo Grattarola
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| website = {{URL|https://www.giugliano.info}}
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Michele Giugliano is an Italian Bioengineer and Physiologist, Associate Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His work focuses on neurobiology, cell electrophysiology, and computational neuroscience.
Education
Giugliano received his Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genoa in 1997, and his PhD from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 2001, working with Massimo Grattarola. In 2001, as an Human Frontier Science Program long-term fellowship awardee,{{Cite web|title=Awardees|url=https://www.hfsp.org/awardees/awards?field_award_type_target_id=All&field_award_year_target_id%5B%5D=207&field_countries_target_id=&field_nationalities_target_id=italy|access-date=2025-01-25|website=HFSPO|language=en-US}} started a postdoctoral training with Stefano Fusi and Hans-Rudolf Lüscher at the Department of Physiology of the University of Bern.
Career
From 2005 to 2008, Giugliano worked with Henry Markram as a junior group leader at the Brain Mind Institute of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, contributing to the NEURONANO project and interfacing neurons to carbon-based nanomaterials.
In 2008, he was appointed tenure-track Docent at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. In 2012 he received tenure, and was later promoted to Hoofddocent in 2013 and to Hoogleraar in 2016. During 2008-2019, he supervised 5 PhD theses.
During those years, he coordinated the BRAINLEAP project consortium as well as the NAMASEN Marie-Curie Training Network, both funded by the European Commission and focused on neuroelectronics for novel neuroprosthetics.
In 2020, he moved his lab to Trieste as he joined the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), supervising until completion other 4 PhD theses. During this time, he coordinated the INFET project consortium, funded by the European Innovation Council and exploring non-conventional neuromodulation for epilepsy treatment.
In 2024, he was called by the Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, as a faculty for the newly established Master in Bioengineering for Innovation in Medicine, continuing researching on human cortical tissue physiology.
Giugliano's research broadly focuses on excitability as well as on fast-response electrical properties of cells, microcircuits and networks of the human and rodent neocortex. Combining electrophysiological recordings, theoretical work, numerical simulations, and the use of novel nanomaterials, he intends to dissect the biophysical primitives underlying information processing and computation in the brain.
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