Encarna Micó Amigo

I am a Spanish biomedical engineer whose passion for science and enthusiasm for discovering new cultures drove me to study all around the world.
I studied a bachelor in industrial design engineering at Polytechnic University of Valencia, being awarded a highly competitive scholarship, PROMOE, to develop a bachelor’s thesis at Kagoshima University, Japan. Afterwards, I completed a master in Biomedical Engineering at Universitat de Barcelona, and developed my master’s thesis at Politecnico di Torino under the Erasmus student program. I completed my PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam under the Marie FP7 ITN program. The PhD thesis aimed at developing quantitative, low-cost and clinically applicable methods to assess trait, progression and preclinical markers of gait in Parkinson’s Disease based on the signal processing of a single wearable sensor. Subsequently, I became a research associate at Newcastle University as part of the leading team of the project Mobilise-D, https://www.mobilise-d.eu/. This is a 5-year (IMI-funded) project that is currently validating (technically and clinically) digital mobility outcomes from wearable sensors to monitor real-world gait in people with diverse mobility problems. Since June 2023 I have been an assistant professor in biomechanics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.