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Maria Pia Saccomani

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering



In 1985 received the Doctoral degree (Laurea) in Mathematics from the University of Padova.

In 1990, she received the Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Polytechnic of Milan.

In 9/1987, 6/1989 and 9/1990, she was a visiting Scholar in the Center for Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Prof. D.M. Foster.

In 1990 she won the I prize of the Student Competition of the 12th Annual Intern. Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Philadelphia, USA.

In 1991, she become Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Electronics and Informatics, University of Padova.

In 2006, she become Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova.

 

The main research activity of Maria Pia Saccomani is in the field of mathematical modeling of biological and physiological systems and identification of dynamic systems. In particular, she has many years of experience in developing theory, algorithms and software for checking parameter identifiability of nonlinear dynamic systems. She is involved in the research area of differential algebra methods in control and nonlinear system identification. The application fields regard mostly amino acids and glucose metabolism models, HIV and oncological models.

 

Maria Pia Saccomani was investigator and co-principal investigator of national and international research programs.
She is reviewer of many journals in the fields of Bioengineering and Mathematical Biology. She has organized invited sessions in international conferences.

 

Since academic year 2005-2006 she has taught the course Bioimages for the Master's Degree Program in Bioengineering at the University of Padova.

 

Since academic year 2010-11, she has taught the course Processing of biomedical data, signals and images for the Bachelor's Degree Program in Bioengineering, University of Padova.

 

From 2010-11 to 2012-13 she taught the course Algebraic Tools for the Identifiability of Dynamical System for the PhD program of the Graduate School in Information Engineering, University of Padova.

 

In the past she taught the following courses:

  • from 1992-93 to 2006-07, Theory of Radioactive Tracers and Methodologies e Biotechnologies applied to biology: models of biological systems for the Specialty School of Medical Nuclear Medicine of the University of Padova;
  • in 2001-02, Modelling of Physiological Systems for the European Postgraduate Course on Biomedical Engineering (hosted at the University of Patras, Greece);
  • from 1996-97 to 1997-98, Biomedical Technologies for the Diploma (B.S.) degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Padova;