Carlotta Mummolo

Carlotta Mummolo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanics, Mathematics, and Management of Polyechnic of Bari, in Italy. Before moving back to her hometown in Italy in 2020, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA. Her research is based on a multidisciplinary approach that integrates fundamental biological and mechanical principles into robotics research platforms to investigate how legged systems move and interact with their environment.Dr. Mummolo received her bachelor and master degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic of Bari (Italy) in 2009 and 2011, respectively, and a second master degree in Mechanical Engineering from New York University (NYU) in 2011. In January 2016, she received two doctoral degrees through a joint Ph.D. program in Mechanical Engineering between Polytechnic of Bari and NYU. Since 2016, Dr. Mummolo has mentored more than 30 students (undergraduate and master) with their thesis dissertations and research activities and had teaching experience in the topics of robot mechanics, robot mobility, simulation tools for robotics, automatic control, system dynamics.