Leandro Donisi was born in Naples in 1990. He received Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering with a dissertation on Biomechanics: “Static Schemes of Musculoskeletal Structures” in 2012 and Master’s Degree cum laude in Biomedical Engineering with a dissertation on Medical Devices: “Comparative study of the performance of two accelerometric systems for gait analysis: Opal and G-Walk Systems'' in 2018; both degrees achieved at University of Naples “Federico II”. Moreover he received PhD in Biomorphological and Surgical Sciences at University Hospital of Naples “Federico II” with a dissertation entitled: “Design and development of an e-textile device and a methodology for personalized and non-invasive assessment of biomechanical risk associated to manual handling” in 2022.

He was research fellow from January 2022 to July 2022 at the Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. From August 2022 to January 2023 he was research fellow at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. From February 2022 to March 2022 he was research fellow at Centro Regionale Information Communication Technology CeRICT scrl, Benevento, Italy.

He is currently assistant professor of Bioengineering Fundamentals at the Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Piazza Luigi Miraglia, 2, 80138, Naples, Italy.

He has several participation as speaker at national and international conferences: Congress of Italian Society of Movement Analysis in Clinic (SIAMOC), National Congress of Bioengineering (GNB), Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON), International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MEMEA), Conference of the European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations (ESGCO), Nordic Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics (NBC), European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC), International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering (EHB), IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE) as documented from his scientific publications.

He was involved in the following research projects: “Smart wearable E-Textile based m-health system”, “Advanced personalized three-dimensional printed sensorized orthesis”, “Wearable sensors and machine learning: a technological approach to assessing biomechanical overload in lifting tasks”, “Rehabilitative personalized home system and virtual coaching for chronic treatment in elderly”, “Therapeutic strategies based on polymeric biomaterials, stem cells and their derivatives for the treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome induced by COVID-19 infection”.

He has national and international scientific collaboration with the following institutions: University of Naples Federico II, University of Salerno, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, University of Sannio, University of Molise, Reykjavik University, Institute of Care and Scientific Research Maugeri of Pavia.

He received the stage prize SIAMOC 2022 for the best scientific paper on the theme of movement analysis.

He was guest editor for MDPI Bioengineering Journal (Special Issue “Machine Learning for Biomedical Applications”) and for MDPI Diagnostics Journal (Special Issue “Wearable Sensors and Artificial Intelligence for Ergonomics”). Moreover he was reviewer for several Journals including: IEEE Transaction on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Access, Measurement, Heliyon, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine.
He was the organizer of the Workshop “Machine Learning Analysis and Simulation Approaches for Biomedical Engineering” at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for Extended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE2022). Moreover he was the organizer of XXII Congress of Italian Society of Movement Analysis in Clinic (SIAMOC 2022).

His research activity is mainly focused on biosignal and bioimage processing, wearable sensor, gait analysis, ergonomics, rehabilitation engineering, telemedicine and artificial intelligence.