Dario Farina

Dario Farina (Fellow IEEE) received Ph.D. degrees in automatic control and computer science and in electronics and communications engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Nantes and Politecnico di Torino, respectively, and an Honorary Doctorate degree in Medicine from Aalborg University. He is currently Full Professor and Chair in Neurorehabilitation Engineering at the Department of Bioengineering of Imperial College London. He also currently holds the roles of Director of Research of the Department of Bioengineering of Imperial College London, Director of the Imperial-Meta Wearable Neural Interfaces Research Centre, and Director of the Imperial Network of Excellence in Rehabilitation Technologies. He has previously been Full Professor at Aalborg University and at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University, where he founded and directed the Department of Neurorehabilitation Systems, acting as the Chair in Neuroinformatics of the Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology Göttingen. His research focuses on biomedical signal processing, neurorehabilitation technology, and neural control of movement. Within these areas, he has (co)-authored more than 500 papers in peer-reviewed Journals (h-index 115) and has been the Editor of the books Introduction to Neural Engineering for Motor Rehabilitation (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2013), Surface Electromyography: Physiology, Engineering and Applications (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2016), and Bionic Limb Reconstruction (Springer, 2021). Among other awards, he has been the recipient of the 2021 Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Technical Achievement Award, the 2010 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Early Career Achievement Award and the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. Professor Farina has been the President of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology (ISEK) and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the official Journal of this Society, the Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology. He is also currently an Editor for Science Advances, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, and has been held past editorial roles in several other Journals. He has been elected Fellow IEEE, AIMBE, ISEK, and EAMBES.