Silvia Muceli

Associate Professor at Biomedical Signals and Systems

Silvia Muceli is an Associate Professor in Neural Engineering. Her research focuses on surface and intramuscular electromyography, biomedical signal processing and modelling, bioelectrode development, neurophysiology of movement, sensorimotor development, and neural prosthesis control.

She received her master’s degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Cagliari (Italy) and PhD in Biomedical Science and Engineering from Aalborg University (Denmark). She completed postdoctoral training at the University Medical Center Göttingen (Germany) and Imperial College London (United Kingdom). She then joined Chalmers as Assistant Professor.

She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, a member of the Council of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology (ISEK), a Senior member of the IEEE, treasurer of the Swedish Section of IEEE Women in Engineering and organizing committee member of the Workforce for Inclusive Science at Chalmers.

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Showing 47 publications

2024

Hand and distal joint tremor are most coherent with the activity of elbow flexors and wrist extensors in persons with essential tremor

Daniel B. Free, Ian Syndergaard, Adam C. Pigg et al
Journal of Applied Physiology. Vol. 136 (2), p. 337-348
Journal article
2024

Tutorial. Frequency analysis of the surface EMG signal: Best practices

Silvia Muceli, R. Merletti
Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology. Vol. 79
Journal article
2023

Using High Density EMG to Proportionally Control 3D Model of Human Hand

Firman Isma Serdana, Silvia Muceli, Dario Farina
International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology. Vol. 13 (3), p. 1118-1126
Journal article
2023

Biomechanical Analysis of Body Movements of Myoelectric Prosthesis Users During Standardized Clinical Tests

Ivan Vujaklija, Moon Ki Jung, Timothy Hasenoehrl et al
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. Vol. 70 (3), p. 789-799
Journal article
2023

The “Little Person” in the Brain Who Helps to Direct Our Movements

Sofia Dall'orso, Tiffany Hamstreet, Silvia Muceli
Frontiers for Young Minds. Vol. 11
Magazine article
2023

An Accurate and Real-time Method for Resolving Superimposed Action Potentials in MultiUnit Recordings

Mehdi Shirzadi, Hamid R. Marateb, Kevin C. McGill et al
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. Vol. 70 (1), p. 378-389
Journal article
2023

Essential tremor accentuates the pattern of tremor-band coherence between upper limb muscles

Daniel B. Free, Ian Syndergaard, Adam C. Pigg et al
Journal of Neurophysiology. Vol. 129 (3), p. 524-540
Journal article
2022

Blind identification of the spinal cord output in humans with high-density electrode arrays implanted in muscles

Silvia Muceli, Wigand Poppendieck, Ales Holobar et al
Science advances. Vol. 8 (46)
Journal article
2022

Intramuscular EMG-driven Musculoskeletal Modelling: Towards Implanted Muscle Interfacing in Spinal Cord Injury Patients

Moon Ki Jung, Silvia Muceli, Camila Rodrigues et al
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. Vol. 69 (1), p. 63-74
Journal article
2022

Editorial: Current Trends in Deep Learning for Movement Analysis and Prosthesis Control

Ali H. Al-Timemy, Claudio Castellini, Javier Escudero et al
Frontiers in Neuroscience. Vol. 16
Other text in scientific journal
2022

The Pop and Color of Our Electrified Muscles

Tiffany Hamstreet, Silvia Muceli
Frontiers for Young Minds. Vol. 10
Magazine article
2022

Development of functional organization within the sensorimotor network across the perinatal period

Sofia Dall'orso, Tomoki Arichi, Sean P. Fitzgibbon et al
Human Brain Mapping. Vol. 43 (7), p. 2249-2261
Journal article
2022

Online tracking of the phase difference between neural drives to antagonist muscle pairs in essential tremor patients

Gonthicha Puttaraksa, Silvia Muceli, Deren Barsakcioglu et al
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. Vol. 30, p. 709-718
Journal article
2021

Deep learning for robust decomposition of high-density surface EMG signals

Alexander Kenneth Clarke, S. Farokh Atashzar, Alessandro Del Vecchio et al
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. Vol. 68 (2), p. 526-534
Journal article
2021

Intramuscular Stimulation of Muscle Afferents Attains Prolonged Tremor Reduction in Essential Tremor Patients

Alejandro Pascual-Valdunciel, Miguel Gonzalez-Sanchez, Silvia Muceli et al
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. Vol. 68 (6), p. 1768-1776
Journal article
2021

Proof of concept for multiple nerve transfers to a single target muscle

Matthias Luft, Johanna Klepetko, Silvia Muceli et al
eLife. Vol. 10
Journal article
2021

Motor unit characteristics after selective nerve transfers

Konstantin Davide Bergmeister, Martin Aman, Matthias Sporer et al
Bionic Limb Reconstruction, p. 83-91
Book chapter
2021

Synergistic organization of neural inputs from spinal motor neurons to extrinsic and intrinsic hand muscles

Simone Tanzarella, Silvia Muceli, Marco Santello et al
Journal of Neuroscience. Vol. 41 (32), p. 6878-6891
Journal article
2020

Comparison of Intramuscular and Surface Electromyography Recordings towards the Control of Wearable Robots for Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

Camila Rodrigues, Marvin Fernandéz, Álvaro Megia et al
Proceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics. Vol. 2020-November, p. 564-569
Paper in proceeding
2020

Non-invasive analysis of motor neurons controlling the intrinsic and extrinsic muscles of the hand

Simone Tanzarella, Silvia Muceli, Alessandro Del Vecchio et al
Journal of Neural Engineering. Vol. 17 (4)
Journal article
2020

An fMRI compatible smart device for measuring palmar grasping actions in newborns

Daniela Lo Presti, Sofia Dall'orso, Silvia Muceli et al
Sensors. Vol. 20 (21), p. 1-16
Journal article
2020

Wearable multichannel haptic device for encoding proprioception in the upper limb

Patrick G. Sagastegui Alva, Silvia Muceli, S. Farokh Atashzar et al
Journal of Neural Engineering. Vol. 17 (5)
Journal article
2019

Tutorial. Surface EMG detection in space and time: Best practices

Roberto Merletti, Silvia Muceli
Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology. Vol. 49
Journal article
2019

Signing up to motor signatures: a unique link to action

Simon C. Gandevia, Silvia Muceli, Martin Héroux
Journal of Applied Physiology. Vol. 127 (4), p. 1163-1164
Other text in scientific journal
2019

A high-density surface EMG framework for the study of motor neurons controlling the intrinsic and extrinsic muscles of the hand

Simone Tanzarella, Silvia Muceli, Alessandro Del Vecchio et al
Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, p. 2307-2310
Paper in proceeding
2019

Modulation of reciprocal inhibition at the wrist as a neurophysiological correlate of tremor suppression: a pilot healthy subject study

Alejandro Pascual-Valdunciel, Filipe O. Barroso, Silvia Muceli et al
Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, p. 6267-6272
Paper in proceeding
2019

Peripheral nerve transfers change target muscle structure and function

Konstantin D Bergmeister, Martin Aman, Silvia Muceli et al
Science advances. Vol. 5 (1)
Journal article
2019

Voluntary and tremorogenic inputs to motor neuron pools of agonist/antagonist muscles in essential tremor patients

Gonthicha Puttaraksa, Silvia Muceli, Juan Alvaro Gallego et al
Journal of Neurophysiology. Vol. 122 (5), p. 2043-2053
Journal article
2019

Decoding motor neuron activity from epimysial thin-film electrode recordings following targeted muscle reinnervation

Silvia Muceli, Konstantin D Bergmeister, Klaus-Peter Hoffmann et al
Journal of Neural Engineering. Vol. 16 (1)
Journal article
2019

A thin-film multichannel electrode for muscle recording and stimulation in neuroprosthetics applications

Silvia Muceli, Wigand Poppendieck, Klaus-Peter Hoffmann et al
Journal of Neural Engineering. Vol. 16 (2)
Journal article
2019

Adaptive learning in the detection of Movement Related Cortical Potentials improves usability of associative Brain-Computer Interfaces

E. Colamarino, Silvia Muceli, J. Ibáñez et al
Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, p. 3079-3082
Paper in proceeding
2018

Motor unit territories in human genioglossus estimated with multichannel intramuscular electrodes

Billy L. Luu, Silvia Muceli, Julian P. Saboisky et al
Journal of Applied Physiology. Vol. 124 (3), p. 664-671
Journal article
2017

Prospects of neurorehabilitation technologies based on robust decoding of the neural drive to muscles following targeted muscle reinnervation

Ivan Vujaklija, Silvia Muceli, Konstantin Bergmeister et al
Biosystems & Biorobotics , p. 1359-1363
Book chapter
2017

A real-time method for decoding the neural drive to muscles using single-channel intra-muscular EMG recordings

Saeed Karimimehr, Hamid Reza Marateb, Silvia Muceli et al
International Journal of Neural Systems. Vol. 27 (6)
Journal article
2017

Broadband prosthetic interfaces: Combining nerve transfers and implantable multichannel EMG technology to decode spinal motor neuron activity

Konstantin D. Bergmeister, Ivan Vujaklija, Silvia Muceli et al
Frontiers in Neuroscience. Vol. 11, p. 1-8
Journal article
2017

A biologically-inspired robust control system for myoelectric control

Silvia Muceli, I. Vujaklija, N. Jiang et al
Biosystems & Biorobotics, p. 975-979
Book chapter
2017

Specificity of surface EMG recordings for gastrocnemius during upright standing

Taian Martins Vieira, Alberto Botter, Silvia Muceli et al
Scientific Reports. Vol. 7 (1), p. 1-11
Journal article
2017

Electrical stimulation of afferent pathways for the suppression of pathological tremor

Jakob L. Dideriksen, Christopher M. Laine, Strahinja Dosen et al
Frontiers in Neuroscience. Vol. 11, p. 1-11
Journal article
2016

Multi-channel intramuscular and surface EMG decomposition by convolutive blind source separation

Francesco Negro, Silvia Muceli, Anna Margherita Castronovo et al
Journal of Neural Engineering. Vol. 13 (2), p. 1-17
Journal article
2016

Principles of motor unit physiology evolve with advances in technology

Dario Farina, Francesco Negro, Silvia Muceli et al
Physiology. Vol. 31 (2), p. 83-94
Review article
2015

Online tremor suppression using electromyography and low level electrical stimulation

Strahinja Dosen, Silvia Muceli, Jakob Lund Dideriksen et al
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. Vol. 23 (3), p. 385-395
Journal article
2015

Experimental muscle pain impairs the synergistic modular control of neck muscles

Leonardo Gizzi, Silvia Muceli, Frank Petzke et al
PLoS ONE. Vol. 10 (9), p. 1-19
Journal article
2015

Physiological recruitment of motor units by high-frequency electrical stimulation of afferent pathways

Jakob L. Dideriksen, Silvia Muceli, Strahinja Dosen et al
Journal of Applied Physiology. Vol. 118 (3), p. 365-376
Journal article
2015

A new generation of double-sided intramuscular electrodes for multi-channel recording and stimulation

Wigand Poppendieck, Silvia Muceli, Jakob Dideriksen et al
Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, p. 7135-7138
Paper in proceeding
2015

Accurate and representative decoding of the neural drive to muscles in humans with multi‐channel intramuscular thin‐film electrodes

Silvia Muceli, Wigand Poppendieck, Francesco Negro et al
Journal of Physiology. Vol. 593 (17), p. 3789-3804
Journal article
2012

Simultaneous and proportional estimation of hand kinematics from EMG during mirrored movements at multiple degrees-of-freedom

Silvia Muceli, Dario Farina
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. Vol. 20 (3), p. 371-378
Journal article

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2019–2022

Development of kinematic and muscle patterns in preterm infants (INFANTPATTERNS)

Sabine Reinfeldt Biomedical Signals and Systems
Silvia Muceli Biomedical Signals and Systems
European Commission (EC)

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