Calogero Maria Oddo

Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies

Calogero Maria Oddo has a PhD in Innovative Technologies, BioRobotics curriculum, from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (SSSA), Pisa, Italy, MSc and BSc in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa, 1st and 2nd level degrees in Industrial and Information Engineering as a honors college student of SSSA (3% success rate), all with honors. He is Associate Professor of Bioengineering, he holds the national scientific qualification to be appointed as Full Professor, and he coordinates the Neuro-Robotic Touch Laboratory at The BioRobotics Institute of SSSA, supervising a research group with about 20 PhD students and post-doctoral fellows. He has held teaching positions and carried out visiting periods at prestigious universities, including École Normale Supérieure – PSL, Collegio Borromeo – University of Pavia, University of Gothenburg, and the University of Pisa. He has over 80 international journal publications and several patents, and a track record in integrating biorobotics, neuroscience and industrial applications, with core of research interests in touch science and engineering. He has 5400+ citations and 32 h-index in Scopus and he serves as member of the editorial board of scientific journals such as Scientific Reports edited by Springer Nature and the International Journal of Robotics Research. He has a growing portfolio of successful research grants, with scientific responsibilities on more than 10 M€ within EU and National projects and industrial contracts. In 2023 he received the Feltrinelli Prize for young investigators in bioengineering from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and he has been elected to serve as Vice-Director of the Young Interdisciplinary Linceo Center.