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Biancamaria Guarnieri is a researcher specializing in neuro-motor rehabilitation, with a particular focus on the integration of cutting-edge technologies to support recovery in stroke patients. Her work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, robotics, and virtual reality, with a central aim of developing innovative tools for monitoring and facilitating upper limb rehabilitation following ischemic stroke. Guarnieri's most impactful contribution is her development and validation of a synchronized rehabilitation system combining high-resolution EEG, passive robotic devices, and Virtual Reality environments. This proof-of-concept work, published in 2015 and accumulating 59 citations, demonstrated the system's capacity to capture both cortical and kinematic data simultaneously, offering unprecedented insight into brain functional reorganization during recovery. A complementary case study from the same year further illustrated the clinical applicability of this approach in individual stroke survivors. Her earlier 2009 work on Virtual Reality and robotics for ischemic stroke rehabilitation laid important conceptual groundwork, signaling a long-term commitment to this research direction. Across her publications, Guarnieri has helped advance the field's understanding of how technology-assisted therapy can both enhance rehabilitation outcomes and provide meaningful neurophysiological measurements, making her work valuable for clinicians and researchers exploring next-generation stroke recovery strategies.