Ilaria Bortone – MISTRAL Project
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Biomedical engineer with strong expertise overseeing and managing national and international funded research projects. She led two nationally-funded research projects (KISS-HEALTH, 2012-15, PON04a3_00097; TELOS, 2020-24, CUP J53D23005710006). Now, she is the Technical Coordinator of MISTRAL Project (GA 101095119, doi: 10.3030/101095119), an EU-funded project aimed at developing a technological toolkit for dynamic, intelligent prediction of health-related features, forecasting the trajectories of disability and quality of life reduction. EU Program Manager at the Competence Center MedITech 4.0, where she is at the helm of the Projects Unit; she is also the co-founder of a non-governmental entity, APS Public Health Environment and Social Equity – PLANET, committed to a bottom-up process of innovation in the field of public health, social and digital equity and reducing environmental impact.
With more than 10 years of experience with physiological data acquisition, logging and analysis, her research interests focus on developing new technology-driven methods and algorithms to improve healthcare by supporting diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of high impact diseases. Active scientific collaboration with the University of Bari Aldo Moro, the Institute of Clinical Physiology, the Polytechnic University of Bari, and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. Adjunct Professor in Biomechanics and Bioengineering at the School of Medicine, University of Bari, mentoring PhD students. Author and co-author of over 80 publications in International Journals and Proceedings of National and International Conferences (Scopus, H-index: 17). She has been awarded several international acknowledgements (Group Study Exchange Rotary Foundation, Startcup Puglia 2016) and prizes (Ministry of Education University and Research – KISSHealth, Tuscany Region – TELOS, Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy – CALLIOPE, HORIZON – MISTRAL, Apulia Region – Taranto Community Hub).
