Chiara Pollastrini is Doctoral Candidate, DC09, for MSCA SMARTTEST at the Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering from VSB – Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic). She will carry out research on "Remote monitoring of circadian rhythm for adult health resilience" (WP3). The objective is to customize and validate an algorithm pipeline, for recognizing daily living rhythm changes in applications of ambient assisted living for elderly or living-alone adults suffering from chronic diseases. The Doctoral Candidate is expected to deliver a documented relevance of lifestyle on chronic disease and a classification/prediction fuzzy expert pipeline for intervention.
She obtained her bachelor's degree in electronic engineering at Roma Tre University (Italy) in 2022. She also holds a master's degree in biomedical engineering from Roma Tre University in 2025. Her master's thesis focused on the use of radar systems for the detection of vital sign in humans and animals. She gained initial experience with radar technology during an Erasmus internship in 2024, she then continued working with radar technology during her master's thesis and, for a short period before starting her PhD, at a company in Rome, where she focused on studying the vital signs of small animals, like rats or bird.