Maddalena Fiordelli is Scientific Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute of Public Health of the Università della Svizzera italiana, where she obtained her PhD in 2009, and she collaborates as associate senior researcher at the Swiss Paraplegic Research. Since 2019, Maddalena has been the treasurer of the International Association for Communication in Healthcare (EACH). She teaches courses on empirical methods at the bachelor and master level as well as for continuing education. Her main research interests include eHealth, mHealth, community based participatory research, and social isolation.