Last update: Oct 2025

Giulia Baldazzi is Tenure Track Researcher (RTT) in Biomedical Engineering (S.S.D. ING-INF/06) at the Medical Devices and Signal Processing (MeDSP) Lab, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE), University of Cagliari.
Her main research activity concerns non-invasive fetal electrocardiography, intracardiac electrophysiology, wearable electronics, and neural signal processing.

She is the Erasmus Coordinator for the BSc and MSc programs in Biomedical Engineering.

 

EDUCATION
05/2022 - PhD in Bioengineering and Robotics (XXXIV cycle), curriculum Bioengineering and Bioelectronics, Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering (DIBRIS), University of Genova (UniGe) (Italy);

10/2018 - MSc (magna cum laude and mention) in Biomedical Engineering (2018), Campus Bio-Medico University (UCBM), Rome (Italy)

11/2015 - BSc (magna cum laude) in Biomedical Engineering (2015), University of Cagliari (UniCa), Italy

2020, I session - Engineering license (A, Information Engineering), University of Cagliari (UniCa), Italy

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

10/2025 -  present: Tenure Track Researcher (RTT) at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari

03/2023 -  09/2025: Non-tenure assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, in PNRR HEAL ITALIA  - “Health Extended ALliance for Innovative Therapies, Advanced Lab-research, and Integrated Approaches of Precision Medicine” - project 

08/2023 - 12/2023: Fulbright visiting research scholar at the Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Informatics (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

05/2020 -  02/2023: Research fellow at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, in PRIN2017 "ICT4MOMs - An integrated approach to monitor and manage pregnancy development" project (MIUR - bando 2017)

02/2020 - 05/2020: Collaborator at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, in RM PON INSIEME "Intelligent Systems for Integrated health Management" (PON Imprese e competitività 2014-2020)

01/2020 - 05/2020: Research assistant at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, in POR FESR 2014/2020 "DoMoMEA - Home neuromotor telerehabilitation for stroke patients with mild impairment through advanced electronic devices"

12/2018 - 12/2019:  Research assistant at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, in POR FESR 2014/2020 "DoMoMEA - Home neuromotor telerehabilitation for stroke patients with mild impairment through advanced electronic devices"

06/2016 - 09/2016: Research assistant at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, in Regional Project "ELoRA - Low-power Real-time processing of neural signals for prosthetic aids", Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, L.R.7/2007 Fundamental Research, CRP-60544

 

AWARDS AND HONORS
Special Mention, Woman of Science Award 2024 (UniCa)

Fulbright visiting research grant, a.y. 2023/2024

Enzo Belardinelli PhD Award 2023 by the National Bioengineering Group (GNB).

 

TEACHING ACTIVITY

since AY 2024/2025 - Lecturer of Digital biomarkers and processing techniques in Digital Phenotyping for the MSc in Biomedical Engineering, University of Cagliari

AY 2023/2024 - Lecturer of Laboratory for the use of applications dedicated to signal analysis and of Polygraphic signal analysis (EMG - ECG) in Signal analysis for the BSc in Neurophysiopathology Techniques, University of Cagliari

AY 2022/2023 - Lecturer of Laboratory for the use of applications dedicated to signal analysis in Signal analysis for the BSc in Neurophysiopathology Techniques, University of Cagliari

AY 2021/2022 - Contract lecturer for Electro neurophysiopathologic techniques 2 (electrophysiology) in Electronics and biomedical instruments for the BSc in Neurophysiopathology Techniques, University of Cagliari

AY 2020/2021 - Contract lecturer for Electro neurophysiopathologic techniques 2 (electrophysiology) in Electronics and biomedical instruments for the BSc in Neurophysiopathology Techniques, University of Cagliari

 

AY 2018/2019 to AY 2021/2022 - Teaching assistant of Biomedical signal processing for the BSc in Biomedical Engineering, University of Cagliari

 

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS (Scopus Author ID: 57196191850, ORCID: 0000-0003-1275-4961)

You can find my scientific publications here.

 

REVIEWING ACTIVITY
Reviewer for journals and conferences. Further details can be found here. 

 

PROJECTS PARTICIPATION

PI of the project Advanced AI-powered methods for optimal personalized treatment of VentrIcular Tachycardias (VITA) - Proof of concept for the valorization of research results in biomedicine - funded by Sardegna Ricerche.

 

PNRR STOPme - "Supporting Termination Of stereotyPies in patients with Rett syndrome by advanced ambient intelligence".

PNRR HEAL ITALIA  - “Health Extended ALliance for Innovative Therapies, Advanced Lab-research, and Integrated Approaches of Precision Medicine”.

H2020 Search and Rescue - "Emerging technologies for the Early location of Entrapped victims under Collapsed Structures and Advanced Wearables for risk assessment and First Responders Safety in SAR operations” (H2020-EU.3.7.5.).

PRIN ICT4MOMS - An integrated approach to monitor and manage pregnancy development (MIUR - bando 2017).

PON 2014/2020 INSIEME (INtelligent Systems for Integrated hEalth ManagemEnt), PON Imprese e competitività 2014-2020.

POR FESR 2014/2020 DoMoMEA (Home neuromotor telerehabilitation for stroke patients with mild impairment through advanced electronic devices) –  Asse prioritario I “Ricerca scientifica, sviluppo tecnologico e innovazione”.
NEBIAS (NEurocontrolled BIdirectional Artificial upper limb and hand prosthesiS), EU Seventh Framework Programme, ICT-2013.9.6 FET Proactive EVLIT. Grant agreement ID: 611687.
ELoRA (Low-power Real-time processing of neural signals for prosthetic aids), funded by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, L.R.7/2007 (bando 2012)-Ricerca di base, CRP-60544.

 

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

IX Congress of the National Group of Bioengineering (GNB 2025), Palermo, Italy, 16 – 18 June, 2025

2024 Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC), Karlsruhe, Germany, 8 – 11 September, 2024

2024 Forum nazionale sulla Medicina di Precisione, Palermo, Italy, 13 – 15 June, 2024, with oral presentation entitled "Novel Magnetically-Connectable Epidermal Electrodes for Biopotential Acquisition"

2023 Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC), Atlanta, USA, 1 – 4 October, 2023, with oral presentations of “Introducing the ARGO Dataset of Post-Ischemic Ventricular Tachycardia Bipolar Electrograms” and of “Arrhythmogenic Sites Mapping in Post-Ischemic Ventricular Tachycardia Using a Siamese Neural Network”

VIII Congress of the National Group of Bioengineering (GNB 2023), Padova, Italy, 21 – 23 June, 2023

2022 Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC), Tampere, Finland, 4 – 7 September, 2022, with poster presentation of “Extraction Algorithm for Morphologically Preserved Non-Invasive Multi-Channel Fetal ECG”

2021 Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC), Brno, Czech Republic, 13 – 15 September, 2021 (virtual attendance)

2020 Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC), Rimini, 13 – 16 September, 2020, with oral presentation of “Supervised Classification of Ventricular Abnormal Potentials in Intracardiac Electrograms” (virtual attendance)

2020 42nd Annual International Conferences of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Montréal, QC, Canada, 20 – 24 Luglio, 2020, with oral presentation of “A Novel Tool for Non-Invasive Fetal Electrocardiography Research: the NInFEA Dataset” (virtual attendance)

2020 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA), Bari, Italy, 1 June– 1 July, 2020, with oral presentation of “A Plantar Pressure Biofeedback M-Health System for Stroke Patients” (virtual attendance)

2019 Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC), Singapore, 8 – 11 September, 2019, with oral presentation of “Wavelet-Based Post-Processing Methods for the Enhancement of Non-Invasive Fetal ECG” and of “Automatic Recognition of Ventricular Abnormal Potentials in Intracardiac Electrograms”

XV Convegno Nazionale Associazione Italiana Ingegneri Clinici - “I dispositivi medici: verso un approccio sempre più integrato”, Cagliari, Italy, 14 – 16 Maggio, 2015