Giulio Sandini is Founding Director at the Italian Institute of Technology and full professor of bioengineering at the University of Genoa, where he graduated in Electronic Engineering (Bioengineering) in 1976. He was research fellow and assistant professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa until 1984. During this period, working at the Laboratorio di Neurofisiologia of the CNR, he investigated aspects of visual processing at the level of single neurons as well as aspects of visual perception in human adults and children. He has also been Visiting Research Associate at the Department of Neurology of the Harvard Medical School in Boston where he developed diagnostic techniques based on brain electrical activity mapping working with dyslexic children.
