Patents

1) Year 2006: “Machine for automatic material deposition using an airbrush” (Italian patent no. BO2006A000397).

2) Year 2008: “Analog System for Detecting Signals Buried in Noise Using Auto-Calibrating Continuous Lock-In Amplifier” (Italian patent no. RM2008A000194).

3) Year 2010: “Remote Compound Identification System in Atmosphere Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Signals Backscattered by Molecules Irradiated with Electromagnetic Radiation” (Italian patent no. RM2010A000211).

4) Year 2017: Patent Filed in the United Kingdom titled: “Circuits and Methods for Memristive Sensing Systems”; ref 84568GB [BB-CASES.FID1159663].

5) Year 2017: Patent Filed in Italy titled “Tactile Interface for Odor Identification” application no. IT102017000111811 (international license).

6) Year 2020: “Automated Analysis of Cell Culture” European patent P36165-FR – 7688716.

7) Year 2021: “Memristor-Based Sensor” US patent no.: 10996182.

8) Year 2021: “Lab-on-Chip Device for Studying Cellular Migration in Three-Dimensional Systems and Related Usage Method.” (No.102021000025460)

9) Year 2023: Automated analysis of cell cultures, US Patent App. 18/023,682

Project responsibility (2014-2023)

-National Institute of Health (NIH), USA, grant (2014): 1R21AI105611-01A1, “Determination of Exhaled Biomarkers for Low-Cost Diagnosis and Monitoring of Tuberculosis”: Role: Co-PI

-Research Project funded by the Veronesi Foundation (2014): “Development of a Hybrid System Based on Drosophila Melanogaster for Cancer Diagnosis.”. Role: PI

-H2020project:  “PhasmaFOOD: Portable photonic miniaturised smart system for on-the-spot food quality sensing”
H2020-ICT-2016-2017 Proposal: 732541 PhasmaFOOD (2017-2019).Role: WP leader.

– Trust Board Grant (Leverhulme): “MONITOR: A Self-Reparable Memristive Gas Sensor Array” (2019-2021).Role: Co-PI

– Social Electrical Network (SEN) funded by Lazio Region. (2018-2019): Role Co-Pi

– multidisciplinary Platform for NEuRodegenerative diSeases drug tEsting On-chip  (PERSEO) funded by Lazio Region (2021-2022).Role PI

– PRIN (2023-2025): Sarcopenia-on-chip: an integrated platform based on chemical sensors, microfluidic dEvices, and machine LEarning algorithms for the development and testing of personalized treatment for sarcopeNia diseasE (SELENE): Role PI

Conference and symposium organization

Prof. Martinelli has been part of the organizing or scientific committee for the following conferences and schools among them:

-Member of the Scientific Committee for the international conference Eurosensors 2014, held in Brescia, Italy, from September 7th to 10th, 2014.

– Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the IMCS, International Meeting on Chemical Sensors, Vienna, from July 15th to 19th, 2018.

– Co-Director of the “Electronics around the Earth” Doctoral School during the annual meeting of the Italian Society of Electronics (SIE) held in Rome from June 24th to 26th, 2019.

– Member of the organizing committee for MNE2021 – the 47th international conference on Micro and Nano Engineering, taking place from September 20th to 23rd, 2021, in Turin.

– Member of the organizing committee for the 1st conference of the Italian Society of Organ-on-Chip (Rome, Italy, 4-5/5/2023).

Talk and seminars

Here’s the list (2014-2023) of invited talks and seminars, and lessons at conferences, universities and high-specialized schools among them:

1. Invited lecture at the “ISOCS Short Course Winter” of the International Society for Olfaction and Chemical Sensing (ISOCS) titled “Fundamentals in multivariate data analysis for chemical sensors.”(9/3/2015)

2. plenary lecture titled “Bio-inspired Solutions for Chemical Sensor Data Analysis” at the IMCS conference held in Jeju, Korea in 2016.

3. Plenary lecture titled “Interplay between natural and artificial paradigms for sensor data processing” at the Eurosensors conference held in Paris from September 3-6, 2017.

4. Invited lecture titled “An introduction to multivariate data analysis and pattern recognition” at the school of the AISEM conference held in Naples on 19/02/2019.

5.  invited talk titled “Discovering unknown messages of cells: Deep learning and Organ-on-chip synergy” at the international FISMAT conference (Catania 30/09-4/10 2019).

6. Invited seminar at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India, on the topic “Machine learning and lab-on-chip application.” (July 2019)

7. invited Seminar at the Crescent Institute, School of Computer, Information, and Mathematical Sciences, titled “Machine Learning approach for experimental data analysis: the case of lab on chip application.”(29/07/2019)

8.  invited seminar at the Curie Institute Section de recherche, Inserm U830, titled “Machine Learning Microfluidics: Analyzing the information of biological experiments in a different way.”(13/01/2021)

9. Invited talk at the “International Conference on Advanced Technologies, Systems, and Services in Telecommunications” (TELSIKS2021) titled “Sensors and Machine Learning for Organ-on-Chips” (October 20-22, 2021, Nis, Serbia).

10.  Invited talk at the IEEE conference Medical and Measurements & Applications (MEMEA) (Taormina, 22-24/06/2022,  titled “The importance of Machine Learning in the exploitation of Organ-on-chip experiments.”

11. Invited talk at the IEEE conference METROXRAINE held in Rome, Italy, 26-28,2022, with a talk titled “We Still Haven’t Found What We are Looking for: The Role of Machine Learning and AI in the Organ-On-Chip Applications.”

12. Invited Seminar at the Curie Institute titled “The Hidden Treasure in Organ-on-Chip Videos: Potential and Limits of Time Lapse Microscopy (TLM) Analysis of OoC Experiments” on February 15, 2023.

13.  Invited Seminar at IIT Smart Material Interfaces titled “Who finds an image(s) finds a treasure: Enhancing Microfluidic Device Performance in Biological Experiments with Machine Learning and Time-Lapse Microscopy” on October 25, 2023.

Industrial projects

[2012] Project with COSMED for the development of a Linux driver on ANT protocol for interfacing wireless sensors.

[2012] Project with COSMED for the feasibility study and development of an oxygen sensor based on the quenching of phosphorescence in organic materials.

[2013] Project with COSMED for the development of a wireless sensor network on the ANT protocol.

[2016] Consultancy contract on behalf of OHB SYSTEM AG (Germany) for the space-qualified certification of rechargeable batteries for their use in the MYOBOTT experiment to be conducted on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2017. [2020] Contratto per l’industria Farmaceutica Transgene (Francia) per “Sviluppo di algoritmi di machine learning e analisi delle immagini per lab-on-chip”(Fase 1).

[2021] Research contract with the start-up RadioSense for the development of a system for classifying the ripeness status of forced-ripened fruit in storage (Phase 1).

[2021] Contract with the pharmaceutical company Transgene (France) for the “Development of an automated procedure for the massive analysis of data from lab-on-chip devices” (Phase 2).

[2021] Contract with the “Ospedale Pediatrico Bambin Gesù” pediatric hospital for the development of deep learning techniques in hospital management.

[2021] Contract with the “Ospedale Pediatrico Bambin Gesù” pediatric hospital for the development of an automatic reporting system for pediatric polygraphic and polysomnographic examinations and its decision support system.

[2021] Research contract with the start-up RadioSense for the development of a system for classifying the ripeness status of forced-ripening fruit in storage (Phase 2).

[2023] Contract with the “Policlinico Tor Vergata” hospital company to refine deep learning techniques for the creation of a support system for triage.

Additional information


2010- Professor Martinelli was invited to join the “IEEE Task Force on Computational Intelligence for Chemometric and Chemical Sensing.”

2018 – one of the main collaborators for the Italian edition of the book “Circuiti per la microelettronica” by authors Sedra & Smith, published by EdiSes.

2021-Promoter, Founder and Director of Interdisciplinary Center of Advanced Study of Organ-on-Chip and Lab-on-Chip Applications (IC-LOC), University of Rome Tor Vergata

2022- Founder and vice-president of the Italian society of Organ on Chip (SIOOC)