Flavia Vitale Associate Professor Neurology Primary Bioengineering Primary Research Website About Flavia Research The Vitale Lab develops innovative technologies to study, diagnose, and treat disorders of the nervous and neuromuscular system. To accomplish our goal, we adopt a multidisciplinary approach combining fundamental studies on emerging nanostructured materials with the development of ad hoc manufacturing processes to integrate these materials into functional devices. Applications span from novel multimodal interfaces for monitoring and manipulating individual cells in microscale neural circuits, to large-scale epidermal electronics for mapping and modulating region-wide networks. Education Dr. Vitale earned her B.S. and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at the Università Campus Biomedico di Roma in 2008. In 2012 she received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the Università di Roma La Sapienza. Dr. Vitale continued on her postdoctoral training at Rice University, where she worked on high-performance biomaterials and bioelectronic interfaces based on carbon nanomaterials, followed by an additional training in translational neuroengineering in the Penn Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics. Awards NSF CAREER Award K12 Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Career Development Award, NIH 2021 Global Young Scientist Award, iCANX Early Career Distinguished Presenter, Materials Communication Taking Flight Award, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy McCabe Fellow Award, University of Pennsylvania
