Name Massimo Grattarola Died 2002, Genoa, Italy | Education University of Genoa | |
Massimo Grattarola (1950-2002) was an Italian born multidisciplinary engineer & scientist who pioneered the fields of bioelectronics and neurobioengineering (also referred to as neuroengineering).
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Founder of Bioelectronics in Italy
Massimo Grattarola thrived at the cutting edge of research. Massimo's ambition was to unite engineers and physicists into neurophysiology and neuroscience... which he christened: Neurobioengineering or Neuroengineering. Mr Grattarola was the only scientist in Italy to have a chair in Bioelectronics for the Biomedical Engineering degree, pioneering the field of Bioelectronics with his textbook publication "Bioelectronics Handbook: MOSFETs, Biosensors and Neurons", edited in 1998 by Mc-Graw Hill. Massimo then proposed an International Research Center on Neuroengineering in Genova.
His peers described him as a soft-spoken, personable man with an intense mind who: "... transmitted to his students not only his knowledge but also, and even more, his enthusiasm for research and his creative way of doing science."
Pioneer - First Bio-Artificial Brain
In September 2001, European Commission appointed Mr Grattarola as an F.E.T. (Future and Emerging Technologies) Programme Project Leader, to study neuronal plasticity at the network level (A Bio-artificial Brain), to train cultured neuronal tissue to support behavior of an artificial body.
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More than 70 publications, contributions to conferences, workshops and contributor to various university course textbooks, including: Bioelectronics and journals among others...