Michela Chiappalone is a researcher in the field of Neuroengineering, with a special focus on neuroprosthetics and neurorehabilitation. She graduated in Electronic Engineering (summa cum laude) in 1999 and obtained a PhD in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Genova (Italy) in 2003. After a Post Doc at the University of Genova, in 2007, she joined the Neuroscience and Brain Technologies Dept at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) as a Post Doc. In 2013, she obtained a team leader position (‘Researcher’) in the same Institution. In 2015, she was a 'Visiting Professor' at the University of Kansas Medical Center-KUMED (Kansas City, KS, USA). From 2012 to 2015, she was the Coordinator of the FET Open European Project BrainBow, judged 'excellent' by the European Commission. In 2017, she joined the Rehab Technologies IIT-INAIL Joint Lab of IIT to lead a group aimed at interfacing robotic devices with the nervous system for applications in neurorehabilitation. In 2018, she obtained the national scientific habilitation as Full Professor of Bioengineering. Since March 2021, she has been appointed as Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Genova, conducting research activities in the field of translational neuronegineering, with a special focus on neuromodulation and neuroprosthetics. She still holds a position as 'Affiliated Researcher' at Rehab Technologies, IIT.