Annamaria Guiotto

Annamaria Guiotto is currently laboratory technician at the University of Padova (Dept of Developmental Psychology and Socialization), for the EEG and NIRS labs and for all the portable tools. Moreover, she teaches for the Bachelor degree in Kinesiology (assistant professor in 2017 and 2018 and adjunct professor in 2019 and 2024), for the Master in Rieducazione Funzionale, Posturologia, Ergonomia e Biomeccanica Applicate (since 2020) and for the Master degree in Bioengineering (adjunct professor in 2020, assistant professor from 2021 to 2024).

She got her master’s degree in Bioengineering -University of Padua in 2008 and the PhD in 2013 at the PhD school on Information Engineering, section Bioengineering, at the same university. Before attending the PhD school, she had 2 years of experience in the gait and postural analysis research field at the Biomov Lab, DEI, University of Padua.

At the Biomov Lab, her research activity regarded mainly the clinical movement analysis and posture of diabetic and neurological subjects, the biomechanical modelling of the foot and the athlete’s biomechanical analysis of sport specific tasks.

She is first author and coauthor of several papers and abstracts published in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings (Jan 2025, Scopus: 686 citations, h-index 13). Since 2010 she has been supervisor and co-supervisor of more than 30 thesis in Biomedical Engineering and in Kinesiology (both master’s and bachelor’s degree).

She takes part as a co-author of a patent for industrial invention (2017 - Metodo ed apparato per rilevare parametri biomeccanici e funzionali del ginocchio). She is co-founder (2017) of BBSoF s.r.l, a startup of Padova University.

She has been in the Organizing and scientific Committee of some editions of the Conference of the Italian Society of Gait Analysis in Clinic (SIAMOC). From 2015 to 2018, she has been the elected Junior Fellows representative of the InterUniversitary Center BOHNES and from 2019 to 2023 she has been the elected board member of SIAMOC.

 

Contact: annamaria.guiotto@unipd.it