ARIANNA MENCIASSI CV (Feb. 2012)

ARIANNA MENCIASSI CV (Feb. 2012)Education and TrainingInstitution and Location Degree Year Field of StudyUniversity of Pisa, Pisa, Italy M.Sc. (LaureaDegree)Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna,(SSSA), Pisa, ItalyScuola Superiore Sant’Anna,(SSSA), Pisa, Italy1995 PhysicsPh.D. 1999 BioengineeringPost-Doc 2000 Biomedical RoboticsResearch and Professional ExperiencePositions and Employment2011-present: Area Leader of the “Surgical Robotics” area at the BioRobotics Institute of SSSA2009-present: Affiliated member to the Italian Institute of Technologies (IIT, Italy), for researchesrelated to MicroBioRobotics2009-present: Associate Professor of Biomedical Robotics (SSSA) – confirmed and permanent status2006-present: Temporary Professor of Biomechatronics at the Pisa University2006-2009: Associate Professor of Biomedical Robotics (SSSA) – status to be confirmed2001-2006: Assistant Professor of Bioengineering (SSSA) – temporary positionOther Experiences, Professional Memberships and Services2011 – present: Co-Chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee in Surgical Robotics2009 – present: Associate Editors of the IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics2008 – present: Member of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee in Micro/Nano Robotics andAutomation2008 – present: Associate Editor of the Journal of Micro and Nano Mechatronics (Springer)2007 – present: Program Committee Member, Special Sessions and Workshops organizer for severalconferences in Robotics and Biomedical Engineering (ICRA, IROS, EMBC, BioRob).2006 – present: Guest Editors of Special Issues and Focused Sections of, e.g., IEEE Trans. onRobotics, Mechatronics, Biomedical Engineering, etc.2004 – present: Member (with different roles) of the SMIT Society (Society for Medical Innovation andTechnology)2001 – present: IEEE RAS and EMBC Member

Main Honors and Awards2011: The paper “A Novel Surgical Robotic Platform Minimizing Access Trauma” by T. Ranzani, C. DiNatali, M. Simi, A. Menciassi, P. Dario, P. Valdastri receives the Best Oral Presentation Award at theHamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics (London, U.K.)2011: The paper “Magnetic air capsule robotic system: a novel approach for painless colonoscopy” byP. Valdastri, G. Ciuti, A. Verbeni, A. Menciassi, P. Dario, A. Arezzo, M. Morino is awarded with theEAES Best Technology Contribution Award (Turin, Italy, June 2011 – European Association ofEndoscopic Surgery Conference 2011)2010: The VECTOR project on robotic endoscopic capsules (http://www.vector-project.com) receivesthe "Best Exhibit Award" at the ICT 2010 Conference in Brussels (Belgium)2009: The paper “Wireless Reconfigurable Modules for Robotic Endoluminal Surgery” by K. Harada,E. Susilo, A. Menciassi e P. Dario is finalist for the Best Medical Robotics Paper Award at ICRA 2009(Kobe, Japan)2009: The Springer Handbook of Robotics (where A. Menciassi is co-author of the chapter on MedicalRobotics) is awarded with the PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Science and Mathematics el’Award in the Engineering & Technology Category2008: The paper “Novel haptic tool and input device for bilateral biomanipulation addressingendoscopic surgery” by K. Houston, O. Tonet, C. Eder, A. Menciassi, P. Dario, A. Sieber, receives thebest Student Paper Award at the International Conference BIODEVICES/BIOSTEC 2008 (Madeira,Portugal)2008: The paper “A Miniaturized Wireless Control Platform for Robotic Capsular Endoscopy usingPseudokernel Approach” by E. Susilo, P. Valdastri, A. Menciassi, P. Dario receives the Best PaperAward at the conference Eurosensors 2008 (Dresda, Germany)2007: Gonfalone d’Argento from the Tuscany Region (Italy) as one of the 10 top talented persons ofthe Tuscany Region2007: Well-Tech Award 2007 (June 2007, Milan, Italy): “Premio per l’innovazione che migliora laqualità della vita” (Innovation for improving quality of life), thanks to the activity on endoscopiccapsules2001: The paper “Force Feedback-based Microinstrument for Measuring Tissue Properties and Pulsein Microsurgery” by A. Menciassi, A. Eisinberg, G. Scalari, C. Anticoli, M.C. Carrozza, P. Dario,receives the Best Manipulation Paper Award at ICRA 2001 (Seoul, South Korea)Curriculum descriptionIn 1995, Arianna Menciassi obtained the laurea degree in Physics (magna cum laude) from the PisaUniversity. Thus, she joined the Biomedical Microengineering Lab of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna(SSSA) in Pisa, where she obtained a PhD position in the year 1996, with a research program onmethods and technologies for micromanipulation of biological microstructures.The PhD thesis defense was in 1999 and the main results of her thesis were awarded with the BestManipulation Paper Award at the IEEE RAS Conf. on Robotics and Automation (2001, Seoul, SouthKorea). Since June 2006, she has been Associate Professor of Industrial Bioengineering at the SSSA.Prof. Menciassi teaches Microengineering for Medical Applications and Introduction toBiomechatronics at the SSSA, and Biomechatronics at the Pisa University (Master Degree inBiomedical Engineering). She carries on an intense research and training activity at high level (mastercandidates in biomedical engineering, PhD students, etc.). She is tutor of more than 15 studentsnormally.

Her main research interests involve biomedical robotics, microsystem technology, nanotechnologyand micromechatronics, with a special attention to the synergy between robot-assisted therapy andnanotechnology-related solutions. She carries on an important activity of scientific management ofseveral projects, European and extra-European, thus implying many collaborations and invited talksabroad. She is co-author of about 200 scientific publications (more than 100 on ISI journals) and 6book chapters on biomedical robots/devices and microtechnology. She is also inventor of about tenpatents, national and international.She serves in the Editorial Board of the IEEE-ASME Trans. on Mechatronics; she is Co-Chair of theIEEE Technical Committee on Surgical Robotics.In the year 2007, she received the Well-tech Award (Milan, Italy) for her researches on endoscopiccapsules, and she was awarded by the Tuscany Region with the Gonfalone D’Argento, as one of thebest 10 young talents of the region.From the year 2007, she has been collaborating with the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova, andfrom April 2010 she is affiliated member of the Center for MicroBioRobotics of IIT@SSSA(http://mbr.iit.it/).Short presentation of research activity and scientific productionIn the last years, Arianna Menciassi has strengthened her research activities on the study and designof miniature and micro-machines for medical applications, with a peculiar attention for issues of activecontrol of locomotion and system integration.A large part of her scientific production related to the development of miniature machines for roboticendoscopy, with a deep analysis of actuation, powering and control issues. She has started an intenserelationship with the community of endoscopists and surgeons. Thanks to the development ofendoscopes and tiny but reliable surgical tools, she also produced papers targeted to the medicalcommunity, with an insight on the applicability of new technologies and on the validation of thedeveloped novel instrumentation.In the last years, Arianna Menciassi has been also investigating nanotechnological approaches fordiagnosis and therapy, more and more localized and accurate. More specifically, she studiesnanoparticles and nanofibres as possible smart and teleoperated vectors for diagnostics andintervention. The final objective of this activity is to merge medical robotics competence andtechnologies with the potentials offered by nanotechnologies. The concept of robotic control - that istypical of traditional surgical robots - should be moved also to the miniature therapy, by using “onboard”control or also external control means (e.g. exploiting magnetic fields or ultrasound for thepropulsion and imaging control of microdevices).Selected publicationsIn the ISI Web of Knowledge database, the number of publications (journals and main conferencepapers) by Menciassi from the beginning of her career are about 190. By restricting the search to onlyISI journal papers, this number becomes 110. In the period 2008-present, Menciassi published 71 ISIjournal papers; in the period 2009-present, she published 56 journal papers. Thus, in the last 3 yearsthe number of ISI journal papers would be about 65. Below (section “Recent Papers”), the ISI journalpapers published in the last 3 years are reported, giving priority to papers relevant to the maqinstreamRecent papers- E. Buselli, P. Valdastri, M. Quirini, A. Menciassi, P. Dario, “Superelastic leg design optimization foran endoscopic capsule with active locomotion”, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 18, No. 1,January 2009.- Ciofani G., Obata Y., Sato I., Okamura Y., Raffa V., Menciassi A., Dario P., Takeda N., Takeoka S.,“Realization, characterization and functionalization of lipidic wrapped carbon nanotubes”, Journal ofNanoparticle Research, 11(2): 477-484 (2009).

- Ciofani G., Raffa V., Yu J., Chen Y., Obata Y., Takeoka S., Menciassi A., Cuschieri A., “Boron nitridenanotubes: a novel vector for targeted magnetic drug delivery”, Current Nanoscience, 5(1): 33-38(2009).- P. Valdastri, S. Tognarelli, A. Menciassi, P. Dario, “A scalable platform for biomechanical studies oftissue cutting forces”, Measurement Science and Technology, 20(4), 045801, February 2009.- Ciofani G., Raffa V., Menciassi A., Cuschieri A., ”Boron nitride nanotubes: an innovative tool for nanomedicine”, Nano Today, 4(1): 8-10 (2009).- Moglia A., Menciassi A., Dario P., Cuschieri A., “Capsule endoscopy: progress update andchallenges ahead”, NATURE REVIEWS Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 353-362,2009.- P. Valdastri, R. J. Webster III, C. Quaglia, M. Quirini, A. Menciassi, P. Dario, “A New Mechanism forMeso-Scale Legged Locomotion in Compliant Tubular Environments”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics,Vol. 25(5), pp. 1047-1057, 2009.- C. Cavallotti, M. Piccigallo, E. Susilo, P. Valdastri, A. Menciassi, P. Dario, “An Integrated VisionSystem with Autofocus for Wireless Capsular Endoscopy”, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Vol.156(1), SI, pp. 72-78, 2009.- E. Susilo, P. Valdastri, A. Menciassi, P. Dario, “A Miniaturized Wireless Control Platform for RoboticCapsular Endoscopy Using Advanced Pseudokernel Approach”, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,Vol. 156(1), SI, pp. 49-58, 2009.- C. Quaglia, E. Buselli, R. J. Webster, P. Valdastri, A. Menciassi, P. Dario, “An endoscopic capsulerobot: a meso-scale engineering case study”, J. of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 19; p.105007-105012, 2009.- G. Tortora, P. Valdastri, E. Susilo, A. Menciassi, P. Dario, F. Rieber, M. O. Schurr, “Propeller-basedwireless device for active capsular endoscopy in the gastric district”, Minimally Invasive Therapy andAllied Technologies, Vol. 18(5), pp.280-290, 2009.- Carta R., Tortora G., Thone J., Lenaert B., Valdastri P., Menciassi A., Dario P., Puers R., “Wirelesspowering for a self-propelled and steerable endoscopic capsule for stomach inspection”, Biosensors &Bioelectronics, Vol. 25(4), pp. 845-851, 2009.- G. Ciuti, P. Valdastri, A. Menciassi, P. Dario, “Robotic magnetic steering and locomotion ofmicrosystems for diagnostic and surgical endoluminal procedures”, ROBOTICA, Vol. 28, SI 02, pp.199-207, 2010.- K. Harada, D. Oetomo, E. Susilo, A. Menciassi, D. Daney, J-P. Merlet, P. Dario, “A ReconfigurableModular Robotic Endoluminal Surgical System : Visions and Preliminary Results”, ROBOTICA, Vol.28, SI 02, pp. 171-183, 2010.- S. J. Phee, S. C. Low, P. Dario and A. Menciassi, “Tendon sheath analysis for estimation of distalend force and elongation for sensorless distal end”, ROBOTICA, 28: 1073-1082, 2010.- Ciofani G., Danti S., Moscato S., Albertazzi L., D’Alessandro D., Dinucci D., Chiellini F., Petrini M.,Menciassi A., “Preparation of stable dispersion of barium titanate nanoparticles: potential applicationsin biomedicine”, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 76(2): 535-543 (2010).- Ciuti G, Donlin R, Valdastri P, Arezzo A, Menciassi A, Morino M, Dario P, “Robotic versus manualcontrol in magnetic steering of an endoscopic capsule”, ENDOSCOPY Vol. 42(2), pp. 148-152, 2010.- P. Dario, A. Menciassi, “Robot Pills”. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, vol. 303, 2; p. 62-65, 2010.- M. Simi, P. Valdastri, C. Quaglia, A. Menciassi, P. Dario, “Design, Fabrication and Testing of anEndocapsule with Active Hybrid Locomotion for the Exploration of the Gastrointestinal Tract”,IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, vol. 15/2; p. 170-180, 2010.- P. Valdastri, C. Quaglia, E. Buselli, A. Arezzo, N. Di Lorenzo, M. Morino, A. Menciassi, P. Dario, “AMagnetic Internal Mechanism for Camera Steering in Wireless Endoluminal Applications”,ENDOSCOPY, vol. 42; p. 481-486, 2010.- Simi M., Ciuti G., Tognarelli S., Valdastri P., Menciassi A., Dario P., “Magnetic link design for arobotic laparoscopic camera ”, J. of Applied Physics, Vol. 107, no. 9, 2010.

- Coceani F., Menciassi A., Murzi B., “Antenatal corrective cardiac surgery: An emerging area fortechnological innovation”, MINIMALLY INVASIVE THERAPY & ALLIED TECHNOLOGIES, Vol. 19,no. 9, issue 3-4, p. 170-176, 2010.- Buselli E., Pensabene V., Castrataro P., Valdastri P., Menciassi A., Dario P., “Evaluation of frictionenhancement through soft polymer micro-patterns in active capsule endoscopy”, MEASUREMENTSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 21, no. 10, 2010.- Vatteroni M., Covi D., Cavallotti C., Clementel L., Valdastri P., Menciassi A., Dario P., Sartori A.,“Smart optical CMOS sensor for endoluminal applications”, SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL, Vol. 162, no. 2, p. 297-303, 2010.- Ciofani G., Danti S., D'Alessandro D., Ricotti L., Moscato S., Bertoni G., Falqui A., Berrettini S.,Petrini M., Mattoli V., Menciassi A., “Enhancement of Neurite Outgrowth in Neuronal-Like Cellsfollowing Boron Nitride Nanotube-Mediated Stimulation”, ACS NANO, Vol. 4, no. 10, p. 6267-6277,2010.- Piccigallo M., Scarfogliero U., Quaglia C., Petroni G., Valdastri P., Menciassi A., Dario P. “Design ofa Novel Bimanual Robotic System for Single-Port Laparoscopy”, IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ONMECHATRONICS, Vol 15, no. 6, p. 871-878, 2010.- Tognarelli S., Pensabene V., Condino S., Valdastri P., Menciassi A., Arezzo A., Dario P., “A pilotstudy on a new anchoring mechanism for surgical applications based on mucoadhesives”,MINIMALLY INVASIVE THERAPY & ALLIED TECHNOLOGIES, Vol. 20, no. 1, p. 3-13, 2011.- Vatteroni M., Valdastri P., Sartori A., Menciassi A., Dario P., “Linear-Logarithmic CMOS Pixel WithTunable Dynamic Range”, IEEE Trans. on ELECTRON DEVICES, Vol. 58, no. 4, p. 1108-1115, 2011.- Valdastri P., Susilo E., Forster T., Strohhofer C., Menciassi A., Dario P., “Wireless ImplantableElectronic Platform for Chronic Fluorescent-Based Biosensors”, IEEE Trans. on BIOMEDICALENGINEERING, Vol. 58, no. 6, p. 1846-1854, 2011.- Palagi S., Pensabene V., Sinibaldi E., Beccai L., Mazzolai B., Mattoli V., Dario P., Menciassi A.,“Controlled Magnetic Propulsion of Floating Polymeric Two-Dimensional Nano-Objects”, ADVANCEDROBOTICS, Vol. 25, no. 8, p. 1029-1047, 2011.- Houston K., Sieber A., Eder C., Vittorio O., Menciassi A., Dario P., “A TELEOPERATION SYSTEMWITH NOVEL HAPTIC DEVICE FOR MICRO-MANIPULATION”, International J. of Robotics &Automation, Vol. 26, no. 3, p. 247-254, 2011.- Valdastri P., Sinibaldi E., Caccavaro S., Tortora G., Menciassi A., Dario P., “A Novel MagneticActuation System for Miniature Swimming Robots”, IEEE Trans. on ROBOTICS, Vol. 27, no. 4, p. 769-779, 2011.- Di Lorenzo N., Arcudi C., Divizia A., Tognoni V., Simi M., Valdastri P., Menciassi A., Dario P.,Gaspari A., “A Camera Integrated in a Magnetic Internal Mechanism (MIM) for Single AccessLaparoscopy: Application in Bariatric Surgery”, OBESITY SURGERY, Vol. 21, no. 8, p. 1009, 2011.