 Maria Chiara Carrozza Main position/role: President of the National Research Council and Full Professor at the BioRobotics InstituteScuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy |
| Maria Chiara Carrozza, MoS degree in Physics from University of Pisa in 1990, and Ph.D. in engineering at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, in 1994. Since 2021 she is the president of the National Research Council. She is Full Professor of Industrial Bioengineering at the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna from 2007 to 2013, Menber of the Italian Parliament from 2013 to 2018, and Minister of Education, University and Research of Italian Republic from 2013 to 2014. From 2018 to 2021 she was Scientific Director of Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation in Milan, Italy, a network of Research hospitals dedicated to Rehabilitation Medicine. From 2015 to 2021 she served in the Board of Directors of the Piaggio SPA. She is Founding Partner of IUVO Srl, a Start-up active in the field of Wearable Robotics. From 2016 to 2021she was President of Italian Scientific Association of Biomedical Engineers. |
