Ana Cisnal

Ana Cisnal received the Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Electronics and Automation Engineering and the Master’s. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain, in 2017 and 2019. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering at the University of Valladolid.

During her Bachelor’s program, she participated in qualities internships at Technology Center CARTIF (Valladolid, Spain) and Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (Sankt Ingbert, Germany). At the Health Division of Technology Center CARTIF, she developed a control for the E2REBOT robotic platform for upper limb rehabilitation in patients with neuromotor disabilities. During her internship in Fraunhofer IBMT, she designed and developed a measurement instrument for the characterization of electrodes in the context of functional electrostimulation.

From 2017 until now, she has been working at the Advanced Production Technologies Institute (ITAP) Medical Robotics Research Group of the University of Valladolid as a research advisor, research fellowship and contract researcher. Her work mainly focuses on the development of control strategies for robotic neuromotor rehabilitation platforms. In 2020, he worked at IDIMAS Gestion SLNE (Salamanca, Spain) developing a neck-mounted sensorized wearable device for individual cow control in extensive livestock. From 2020, she is also a professor at the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation of the University of Valladolid.

She joined the SCAI (Spinal Cord Artificial Intelligence) Lab as a visiting PhD student in September 2022, where she is working on the estimation of blood pressure based using photoplethysmography for personalized healthcare for spinal cord injury individuals.