Carlotta Mummolo

Carlotta Mummolo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanics, Mathematics, and Management of Polyechnic of Bari, in Italy. Before, 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. Her research is published in Journal of Mechanism and Robotics, Mechanisms and Machine Theory, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.