Curriculum Vitae of Micaela Schmid

Education

2000 – Ph.D. title from the University of Pavia with a final dissertation entitled “Quantitative analysis of rehabilitation in lower limb amputees”
2000 –  Diploma of Post-graduate Advanced Formation issued by the University Institute for Advanced Studies of Pavia and the University of Pavia (IUSS)
1997 – Examination of State for the qualification to the profession of Computer Science Engineer
1997 – Graduation in computer science engineering at the University of Pavia presenting an experimental thesis entitled “Balance control in lower limb amputees”.

Foreign Experience

1997 – Three months at the laboratory of Movement et Perception UMR – Faculté des Sciences du Sport de l’Université de la Mediterranée (Aix Marseille II)
1993 – Erasmus student in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde Glasgow.

Known Languages

Italian: mother tongue
English: oral and writing
French: oral and writing

Research topics

Gait and balance analysis of lower limb amputee subjects
Quantitative evaluation of the rehabilitation process
Central and peripheral mechanisms of the muscular fatigue
Motor and balance control in healthy and pathological subjects
Sensorimotor Integration
Motor plasticity and postural adaptation phenomena
Gait analysis

Research projects

Principal Investigator 
2011 – Straight and curved walking in Parkinson’s disease: basic mechanisms, pathophysiology and rehabilitation interventions’. Ministry of Health.
1999 – Bio-Feedback system evaluation with a clinical images classification method. Young Researchers Project, Ministry of Education Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR).
Co-investigator
Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR)
2010-2011 – Action organization and monitoring: from vision to motor control. PRIN – Principal Investigator Prof. C. Galletti
2007 – Adaptive features of posture and movement. PRIN – Principal Investigator Prof. M. Schieppati
2005 – Contribution of the gravity, of the visual and proprioceptive signals in the balance and gait control. PRIN – Principal Investigator Prof. V. Pettorossi
2003 – Sensory influences on reference coordinate systems for movement. PRIN – Principal Investigator Prof. M. Schieppati
2001 – Human movement and sensori-motor integration: redundancy, plasticity, Learning, spatial memory, degradation, modelling FIRB – Principal Investigator Prof. M. Schieppati
1999 – Bioengineering of the sensorimotor organization in postural stabilization. PRIN- – Principal Investigator Prof. A. Buizza
Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS)
1996 – Lower limb prosthesis sensorization (Principal Investigator Prof.ssa D. Zambarbieri)

Referee activity

2011 – now        Clinical Biomechanics, Elsevier
2009 – now        Gait and Posture, Elsevier
2006 – now        Experimental Brain Research, Springer
2005 – now        European Journal of Applied Physiology

Invited Seminar

2005-2006         Université de la Méditerranée – European School Marseille on Motor Disabilities: posture and movement analysis, rehabilitation, neurophysiology.
2003     I.R.C.C.S. Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, sede Pavia – Protesi ed Ausili Tecnici nel Progetto Riabilitativo: Innovazione Tecnologica e Risultati Riabilitativi
2001     Università degli Studi di Pavia – Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi e Ricerche sulle Problematiche dell’Handicap

Conference Organization

2010     Balance, Balance Disease and Rehabilitation. Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Pavia. Scientific Committee
2009     ISPGR XIX Satellite Pre-Conference. Basic mechanisms underlying balance control under static and dynamic conditions, Pavia. Scientific Committee

Professional experience

2004–2005         FIRB Researcher – Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, I.R.C.C.S. Pavia
2003-2004         Contract research – Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, I.R.C.C.S. Pavia
2003     Consulting activities for Dr. Scholl, Bayer
2002-2003         Scholarship – Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, I.R.C.C.S. Pavia
2000-2002         Contract research – Department of Computer and Systems science, University of Pavia

Academic activity

2015 – now        Professor for the class of Rehabilitation and Prostheses, Master’s Degree Courses in Bioengineering, University of Pavia.
2009     Member of the examining commission of PhD final exam in Human Movement Science, Université de la Mediterranée, Marseilles.
2005     Researcher, M-EDF/02, School of Medicine of the University of Pavia.
2004 – now        Professor for the class of Biomechanics and Method and Technique Analysis of Human Movement, Motor Sciences, University of Pavia.
2003-2004         Contract Professor for the class of Bioengineering and Rehabilitation, Motor Sciences, University of Pavia
2002-2004         Contract Professor for the class of Biomechanics and Method and Technique Analysis of Human Movement, Motor Sciences, University of Pavia.
2001-2003         Contract Professor for the class of Artificial Organs and Prostheses, Motor Sciences, University of Pavia.
2000-2002         Contract Professor for the class of Bioengineering, Motor Sciences, University of Pavia.

Publications

International journals

1. M Schmid, S Sozzi: Temporal features of postural adaptation strategy to prolonged and repeatable balance perturbation. Neurosci Lett. 15:110-5, 2016.
2. M Schmid, A Bottaro, S Sozzi, M Schieppati: Adaptation to continuous perturbation of balance: progressive reduction of postural muscle activity with invariant or increasing oscillations of the center of mass depending on perturbation frequency and vision conditions. Hum Mov Sci. 30(2):262-78, 2011.
3. M Schmid, L Casabianca, A Bottaro, M Schieppati: Graded changes in balancing behaviour as a function of visual acuity. Neuroscience 153(4):1079-91, 2008.
4. M Schmid, A Nardone, AM De Nunzio, M Schmid, M Schieppati: Equilibrium during static and dynamic tasks in blind subjects: no evidence of cross-modal plasticity. Brain. 130 (Pt 8):2097-107, 2007.

4. G Courtine, AM De Nunzio, M Schmid, MV Beretta, M Schieppati: Stance- and locomotion-dependent processing of vibration-induced proprioceptive inflow from multiple muscles in humans. J Neurophysiol. 97(1):772-9, 2007.
5. M Schmid, M Schieppati, T Pozzo: Effect of fatigue on the precision of a whole body pointing task. Neuroscience. 139 (3):909-20, 2006.
6. M Schmid, G Beltrami, D Zambarbieri, G Verni: Centre of pressure displacements in trans-femoral amputees during gait. Gait Posture. 21(3):255-262, 2005.
7. M Schmid, M Schieppati: Neck muscle fatigue and spatial orientation during stepping in place in humans. J Appl Physiol. 99(1):141-153, 2005.
8. M Schmid, AM De Nunzio, M Schieppati: Trunk muscle proprioceptive input assists steering of locomotion. Neurosci Lett. 384(1-2):127-132, 2005.
9. A Zancan, MV Beretta, M Schmid, M Schieppati: A new hip-knee-ankle-foot sling: kinematic comparison with a traditional ankle-foot orthosis. Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development 41; 5:707-712, 2004.
10. M Schieppati, A Nardone, M Schmid: Neck muscle fatigue affects postural control in man. Neuroscience 121:277-285, 2003.

Chapters in Italian books

1. A Buizza, R Lombardi, M Schmid: Strumentazione per la valutazione della disabilità motoria. In: Le scale di misura in riabilitazione: guida pratica per il corretto utilizzo delle scale, Società Editrice Universo (Roma) pp. 549-574, 2005.
2. A Buizza, C Mazzà, M Schmid: Valutazione delle disabilità motorie. In: Bioingegneria della postura e del movimento. A Cappello, A Capozzo, PE di Prampero eds., Patron Editore pp.353-374, 2003.
3. A Buizza, M Schmid, E Truddu: La Strumentazione Biomedica. In: La Gestione della Strumentazione Elettromedicale nella Nuova Organizzazione Sanitaria. A Buizza, G Genduso e A Pagliaro eds., Consorzio di Bioingegneria ed Informatica Medica (CBIM), pp. 13-41, 2000.