Maura Arsiero

Current

• Field Clinical Engineer at Second Sight Medical Products

Past

• FCE at Hospital XV-XX Paris
• Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Bern, Switzerland
• PhD student at University of Bern

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Education

• Universität Bern
• Università degli Studi di Genova
• CNS Summer School

• Conservatorio di Musica N. Paganini, Genova
• The Hebrew University

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Connections

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Industry

Biotechnology

Maura Arsiero’s Summary

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:
- Tutoring and practical-courses student supervision
- Basic research on cellular and network electrophysiology/neurophysiology
- Assembling and development of custom tools for non standards electrophysiological measurements; from the level of control and analysis software (A/D-D/A data acquisition, graphical user interface) to the optimization of microscope optics.
- Writing proposals for obtaining travel/ education grants from different sources
- Transfer of know–how via reports, lectures, talk, seminars and posters presentations
- Team work - interaction with different people from different background (international environment/ travels) for reaching a common goal
- organization of schedules and deadlines in order to break down big projects in smaller steps
- Taking great commitments for obtaining a specific results within a close time frame

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE
- Windows XP, Linux / Posix and major Office applications, web related sw
-Matlab, C/C++, QT – Graphical User Interface Design, Data Acquisition and Control

LANGUAGES
- Italian: native speaker
- English: fluent
- French: intermediate
-German: basic

Maura Arsiero’s Specialties:

I speak the language of Engineers, Physics, Physicians, and Biologist. I specifically planned my education in order to master the skills necessary to translate one language into another. Now I want to use my knowledge to bridge the gaps between these different professions and to make them work together for a unified and common goal.

Maura Arsiero’s Experience

• Field Clinical Engineer

  Second Sight Medical Products

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Medical Devices industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

• FCE

  Hospital XV-XX Paris

  (Biotechnology industry)

  2008 — 2009 (1 year )

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  University of Bern, Switzerland

  (Research industry)

  May 2007 — April 2008 (1 year )

• PhD student

  University of Bern

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  2003 — 2007 (4 years )

Maura Arsiero’s Education

• Universität Bern

  PhD , Neuroscience , 2003 — 2007

  The PhD curriculum of the BENEFRI convention in Neuroscience includes, besides the doctoral thesis, examinations in Neuromorphology, Neurophysiology, and Neurobiochemistry, yearly thematic block courses and the earning of the required number of credits confirming theoretical and practical activities related to different areas of neurosciences.

• Università degli Studi di Genova

  M.Eng , Bio-Engineering , 1996 — 2003

  Such a curriculum was highly interdisciplinary and it effectively combined a deep training in biology, biophysics and biochemistry to the cultural background of engineers, related to applied mathematics, computer science and system theory

• CNS Summer School

  Computational Neuroscience 2005

• Conservatorio di Musica N. Paganini, Genova

  Pianoforte, singing

• The Hebrew University

Additional Information

Maura Arsiero’s Interests:

Neuroscience, Salsa dance, Sci-Fi movies and books, travels, meet people from different countries and cultures

Maura Arsiero’s Honors:

Over the last 6 years, I was awarded 8 fellowships (e.g. from EU commission, Onassis Foundation, University of Edinburgh, Swiss Society for Neuroscience, Univ. of Genova), based on the high quality and relevance of my work. I also received different prizes for the excellence of my research.

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