Research Programme: Bioengineering - analysis of biomedical signals and images and study of human movement and technologies for health and wellbeing

The candidate must possess expertise in EMG signal processing and muscle synergy analysis.The activity to be carried out includes:EMG Signal Acquisition: Collect multi-channel biomedical EMG signals from healthy individuals and patients during motor tasks under different experimental conditions.Pre-processing: Develop, validate, and apply techniques for artifact and electrical interference filtering, and movement phase segmentation.Time & Frequency Analysis: Extract quantitative muscle activity indices to characterize activation patterns, recruitment, and coordination across pathological or experimental conditions.Muscle Synergy Analysis: Implement factorization and decomposition techniques on multi-channel EMG signals to identify muscle coordination patterns, estimate timing coefficients, and evaluate complexity, stability, and reproducibility. Analyze kinematic-muscle synergies to link muscle activity with movement kinematics.