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Giuseppe Granata is a leading researcher in neural engineering and advanced prosthetics, whose work focuses on restoring natural sensory feedback and motor control for hand amputees. His major contributions center on developing bidirectional hand prostheses that integrate intraneural stimulation to provide realistic tactile sensations. In his highly cited 2019 study (146 citations), Granata demonstrated shared human–robot proportional control of a dexterous myoelectric prosthesis, enabling more intuitive and precise hand movements. He further advanced the field by comparing linear frequency and amplitude modulation for sensory feedback (118 citations), showing how direct nerve stimulation can restore touch perception. His single-case study on optimal integration of intraneural somatosensory feedback with visual information (60 citations) revealed that the nervous system can seamlessly combine artificial sensory signals with natural vision, a breakthrough for prosthesis usability. Granata also explored the temporal dynamics of tactile feedback (20 citations) and, in a notable 2020 study (10 citations), used multimodal neuroimaging to show that prolonged training with a sensorized hand prosthesis induces lasting functional reorganization in sensorimotor brain areas. His work is pivotal for creating prostheses that feel and act like natural limbs, with profound implications for amputee rehabilitation.