Dr. Maura Casadio is an associate professor in biomedical engineering at the University of Genoa, Italy. She received a Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering (2002) from the University of Pisa, as well as a Master’s degree in Bioengineering (2007) and a PhD in Robotics and Bioengineering (2006) from the University of Genoa. She has previously worked (2008–2011) as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, and the Robotics Laboratory, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Her key interests are the neural control of movement, robots for rehabilitation and body–machine interfaces. She has authored or co-authored about 80 peer-reviewed journal papers.