Micaela Schmid

University Researcher

Micaela Schmid was born in Milan, Italy, in April 1971. She received her M.S. degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Pavia in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the same university in 2000. In the same year, she also obtained a Post-Graduate Advanced Training degree from the University Institute for Advanced Studies, IUSS Pavia. Since 2005, she has been a Researcher at the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia.
She has extensive experience in university teaching. She teaches in the Master’s degree programme in Sciences and Techniques of Preventive and Adapted Physical Activities at the University of Pavia, in the BSc programme in Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Pavia, and in the Master’s degree programme in Bioengineering at the University of Pavia. She has supervised of Master’s degree theses in Sport Science and Bioengineering, as well as Ph.D. theses.

For approximately ten years, she carried out research in the field of human movement analysis and sensorimotor integration at the Human Movement Laboratory, CSAM, of the Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri in Pavia, Italy. During this period, she participated in several PRIN projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, MIUR.

She has contributed as Principal Investigator and Unit Principal Investigator to several national research projects. These include smarT senioR hoUsing to counteract Social isolaTion and for an IndepeNdent, safe, healthy and active AGEING — TRUSTINAGEING, ID T1-CN-03, Ministry of Health, 2021, Principal Investigator; The Disable Assisted Living for University Students — TheDALUS, ID 379357, Smart Living Programme, Regione Lombardia, 2017, Unit Principal Investigator; and Straight and Curved Walking in Parkinson’s Disease: Basic Mechanisms, Pathophysiology and Rehabilitation Interventions, ID GR-2009-1471033, Ministry of Health, 2011, Principal Investigator.