Federica Vatta

The Brain from Trieste

Dr. Federica Vatta is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrotechnics, Electronics and Informatics (DEEI) and at the Interdepartmental Centre "Basic Research and Integrative Neuroscience" (BRAIN) of the University of Trieste, Italy. She is co-investigator in the research unit of Trieste (responsible prof. Paolo Inchingolo) of the national research project "Methodologies and technologies for the evaluation of the structural and functional relationships between ANS and CNS" granted by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (2001-2002). She is teacher of "Functional mapping" in the Course "Biomedical Instrumentation" at the Postgraduate School of Clinical Engineering at the University of Trieste and assistant for the course of Bioengineering at the Faculty of Engineering.

She received her Laurea degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering in 1998 at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Trieste, Italy. In 2002 she received her Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from the University of Trieste with the thesis "Modelling of the volume conductor of the head for brain functional mapping in the presence of morphologic pathologies" (supervised by Dr. Paolo Bruno and Prof. Paolo Inchingolo).

Her research interests involve EEG inverse problem and modelling, applications of image segmentation (modelling and 3D imaging) and the lead field approach in forward and inverse bioelectric problems. She published 16 scientific papers in journals and conference proceedings. She has been awarded with a "Student award for best presentation" at the conference 3rd ICBEM 2000 (Bled, Slovenia, 8 - 12 October 2000) for the paper "Sensitivity of EEG source localisation to brain lesion conductivity as a method to improve source estimate position" (Authors: F. Vatta, P. Bruno, P. Inchingolo), as well as at the conference MEDICON 2001 (Pula, Croatia, 12-15 June 2001) for the paper "Influence of lesion geometry estimate on EEG source reconstruction" (Authors: F. Vatta, P. Bruno, P. Inchingolo), and at the conference 39th RMBS (Copper Mountain, Colorado, USA, 12-14 April 2002) for the paper "Accuracy of EEG source reconstruction in the presence of brain lesions: modelling errors and surface electrodes' placement" (Authors: F. Vatta, P. Bruno, P. Inchingolo).

She is member of the Unit of Trieste of the Italian National Bioengineering Group (GNB) of CNR and of the IEEE EMB Society.

Requests for reprints should be forwarded to the following contact address:

Dr. Eng. Federica Vatta
Department of Electrotechnics, Electronics and Informatics (DEEI)
University of Trieste
Via Valerio, 10 - 34127 Trieste, ITALY
Phone: +39 040 558 7120
Fax: +39 040 558 3460
E-mail: federica.vatta@deei.univ.trieste.it
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