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Lorenzo De Michieli

Director of Technology Transfer
Director
Technology Transfer Directorate
Phone
+39 010 2896 569
Research center
CCT@Morego
Biografia

Lorenzo De Michieli is Director of Technology Transfer at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Coordinator of the large-scale project RAISE - Spoke 2 “Smart Devices and Technologies for Personal and Remote Healthcare” funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.

From 2016 to 2024, he was Director of the IIT's Rehab Technologies Lab, a large innovation laboratory aimed at developing new prostheses, exoskeletons and rehabilitation devices with high market potential in the healthcare sector.

He received a M.S. in Physics (Material Science) in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Humanoid Robotics) from the University of Genoa, Italy. He also accomplished an extensive training on innovation management both in Italy at Jacobacci & Partners (Turin, IT) and abroad at the European Patent Office (The Hague, NL) and the Bergen Teknologioverføring (Bergen, N).

From 2014 to 2019 he was contract Professor at the University of Genoa - Faculty of Economics - in Collaborative Innovation and Technology Transfer.

Before joining IIT in 2008, he was research technologist at the National Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM, Italy) from 2002 to 2006, and at the National Research Council (CNR, Italy) from 2006 to 2008, gaining an extensive experience in developing industrial alliances and managing competitive R&D projects.

All Publications
2025
Laffranchi M., De Giuseppe S., Freddolini M., Driessen J., Barresi G., Canepa M., Boccardo N., Cherubini A., Mozzon M., Gruppioni E., De Michieli L., Traverso S.
Design of Semi-Powered Knee Prostheses for Improved Versatility
Biosystems and Biorobotics, vol. 31, pp. 129-133
DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-77588-8_26
Book Chapter Book Series
2025
Di Domenico D., Forsiuk I., Muller-Cleve S., Tanzarella S., Garro F., Marinelli A., Canepa M., Laffranchi M., Chiappalone M., Bartolozzi C., De Michieli L., Boccardo N., Semprini M.
Reach&Grasp: a multimodal dataset of the whole upper-limb during simple and complex movements
Scientific data, vol. 12, (no. 1)
DOI 10.1038/s41597-025-04552-5
Article Journal
2024
Marinelli A., Boccardo N., Canepa M., Di Domenico D., Gruppioni E., Laffranchi M., De Michieli L., Chiappalone M., Semprini M., Dosen S.
A compact solution for vibrotactile proprioceptive feedback of wrist rotation and hand aperture
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, vol. 21, (no. 1)
DOI 10.1186/s12984-024-01420-y
2024
Marinelli A., Canepa M., Di Domenico D., Gruppioni E., Laffranchi M., De Michieli L., Chiappalone M., Semprini M., Boccardo N.
A comparative optimization procedure to evaluate pattern recognition algorithms on hannes prosthesis
Neurocomputing, vol. 569
DOI 10.1016/j.neucom.2023.127123
2024
Giannattasio R., Maludrottu S., Zinni G., De Momi E., Laffranchi M., De Michieli L.
An adaptable ankle trajectory generation method for lower-limb exoskeletons by means of safety constraints computation and minimum jerk planning
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5548-5554
DOI 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610191
Conference Paper Conference
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Dissemination
2020
De Michieli L.
La protesi di mano Hannes
Il Lavoro che si prende Cura
Public Event
2020
De Michieli L.
Protesi e IA
Intelligenza Artificiale: per una governance umana. Università Pontificia Salesiana
Public Event
2019
De Michieli L.
Dai robot all'uomo, la ricerca tecnologica per la salute
Congresso nazionale Altroconsumo
Media
2019
De Michieli L.
Healthcare Robotics, dalla robotica umanoide all’uomo
Rassegna Disegni, invenzione e macchine - 23 gennaio 2019, Palazzo Ducale, Genova
Public Event
2019
De Michieli L.
Twin, l'esoscheletro di IIT
Web marketing Festival, Rimini
Outreach
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Scientific Talks
2023
Barresi G., Salatino L., Caserta G., Marinelli A., Boccardo N., Storchi C., Freddolini M., de Zambotti M., Gruppioni E., Laffranchi M., De Michieli L.
Augmented Biofeedback Settings for Prosthetic Embodiment Training
Living Machines 2023 Workshop: Human-Inspired Robotic Embodiment
Workshop/Symposium
2021
De Michieli L.
Healthcare Robotics
School of Innovation
School (Summer school, ...)
2021
De Michieli L.
Technology in Aging Assistive and rehabilitation devices: from humanoid robots to humas
EIT Health Ageing PhD School
School (Summer school, ...)
2020
De Michieli L.
La ricerca tecnologica per la salute
CITEMOS 2020
Conference
2020
De Michieli L.
The Hannes prosthetic hand
Il Lavoro che si prende Cura (Digital Edition 2020)
Workshop/Symposium
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Awards and Achievements
2022
Maludrottu S., Laffranchi M., Vassallo C., Vaccaro R., De Michieli L.
iF DESIGN AWARD 2022 - Twin Exoskeleton
2021
Laffranchi M., Traverso S., Vaccaro R., Maludrottu S., Poli F., De Bartolomeis L., Diamanti G., Gruppioni E., De Michieli L.
Good Design
2020
Laffranchi M., Boccardo N., Traverso S., Lombardi L., Canepa M., Lince A., Semprini M., Saglia J.A., Naceri A., Sacchetti R., Gruppioni E., De Michieli L.
XXVI Compasso d'oro
2018
Laffranchi M., Boccardo N., Traverso S., Lombardi L., Canepa M., Lince A., Semprini M., Saglia J.A., Naceri A., Sacchetti R., Gruppioni E., De Michieli L.
ADI Design Index
2018
Laffranchi M., Boccardo N., Traverso S., Lombardi L., Canepa M., Lince A., Semprini M., Saglia J.A., Naceri A., Sacchetti R., Gruppioni E., De Michieli L.
Good Design
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Editorships
2021-2021
De Michieli L.
Frontiers in Neuroscience
2018
De Michieli L.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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Organized Events
2021
Micera S., Stieglitz T., Bonato P., Chiappalone M., Pedrocchi A., Suzuki T., Metin Akay C., Sajda P., Capogrosso M., Raspopivic S., Mazzoni A., Platt J., Oddo C., Shoaran M., Shokur S., De Michieli L., Green R.
10th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering
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Colleagues of Technology Transfer Directorate
Andrea Pagnin Research Manager Technology Transfer Directorate Innovation and Development Office
Monia Gentile Research Administrative Technology Transfer Directorate Intellectual Property Management Office
Eleonora Servodio Research Administrative Technology Transfer Directorate Startup and Entrepreneurship Office
Chiara Crippa Research Administrative Technology Transfer Directorate Innovation and Development Office
Samuele Morales Administrative Supervisor Research Organization Directorate Projects Office Technology Transfer Directorate Startup and Entrepreneurship Office
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