Last update: Oct 2025

Giulia Baldazzi is Tenure Track Researcher (RTT) in Biomedical Engineering (S.S.D. IBIO-01/A , formerly ING-INF/06) at the Medical Devices and Signal Processing (MeDSP) Lab, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE), University of Cagliari.
Her research activity primarily focuses on biomedical signal processing and machine learning, with special emphasis on non-invasive fetal electrocardiography, cardiac electrophysiology, heart rate variability, wearable electronics, and neural signal processing.

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

 

EDUCATION

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

Engineering license (A, Information Engineering), University of Cagliari (UniCa), Italy

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

BSc (magna cum laude) in Biomedical Engineering (2015), 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