Jacopo Zenzeri
Papers
43
Total Citations
875
H-Index
15
About
Jacopo Zenzeri is a prominent researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robotics, neuroscience, and rehabilitation medicine, with a particular focus on proprioception, motor learning, and robotic neurorehabilitation. His research has made significant contributions to understanding how sensorimotor systems function and how robotic technologies can restore or enhance them following neurological injury. Zenzeri's most impactful work includes a widely cited 2019 perspective on robotic neurorehabilitation (120 citations), which helped shape the field's trajectory by identifying key challenges and opportunities for clinical translation. His investigations into proprioceptive assessment and robot-assisted training after stroke — spanning multiple papers from 2011 to 2015 — established foundational frameworks for diagnosing and treating kinesthetic deficits in neurological patients. His 2015 paper revisiting body-schema theory (81 citations) demonstrates his broader theoretical contributions to embodied cognition and postural dynamics. Beyond stroke rehabilitation, Zenzeri has explored muscle fatigue assessment, cervical dystonia phenotyping, pediatric neuromotor rehabilitation, and even humanoid robot learning. His scoping reviews have helped standardize classification frameworks across the field. With a cumulative citation count exceeding 500, Zenzeri represents a vital bridge between engineering innovation and clinical neuroscience.
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Top Papers
- 1Perspectives and Challenges in Robotic Neurorehabilitation120 citations · 2019
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- 5Teaching a humanoid robot to draw ‘Shapes’48 citations · 2011
- 6Muscle fatigue assessment during robot-mediated movements45 citations · 2018
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- 9Strategy Switching in the Stabilization of Unstable Dynamics34 citations · 2014
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