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Elisa Donati (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc., M.Sc. degrees in biomedical engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy (cum laude), and the Ph.D. degree in biorobotics from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, in 2016. She is currently a Senior Scientist with the Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich, and ETHZ where she is training as a Neuromorphic Engineer. She is also Junior Group Leader at the Neuroscience Center Zurich in the Computational and Modeling and Motor System Group. Her research interests include how to interface neurorobotics and neuromorphic engineering for building smart and wearable biomedical devices. In particular, she is interested in designing VLSI systems for prosthetic devices, such as adaptive neuromorphic pacemakers. Another recent application includes a neuromorphic processor for controlling upper-limb neuroprosthesis. She is investigating how to process EMG data to extract features to produce motor commands by using spiking neural networks. She is a TC member of Neural Systems and Applications of the circuit and system society and of the Biomedical circuit and system society.