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ALESSANDRO
ASCANI ORSINI

Hacking the brain through engineering in Nanotechnology and Neuroscience.

About me

Welcome!


First of all, welcome to my personal website!

My name is Alessandro Ascani Orsini and I am from Mandello del Lario, Italy and also a Canadian citizen.
I love many things, including boardgames, LARPs (Live Action Role Play) and travel. However most of all I love to learn new things and specifically, new things about time travel, chaos theory, quantum physics, nanotechnology and the brain.

Who am I?

   
I’m currently an PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. In Spring 2023 I graduated as a Schreyer Honors Scholar at the Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Engineering Sciences and Mechanics, a minor in Neuroscience and a minor in Nanotechnology.

My dream is to become a Leader in Neural Engineering and Nanotechnology to fuse these two fields together and create nanorobots to cure, diagnose or predict neurodegenerative diseases. At the moment I am working in Dr. Pedro Irazoqui’s lab regarding the application of quantum materials for implantable medical devices.

In this website I collect some of my projects that I made in these past years. 
Come back to check once in a while. I will update the website as the list keeps growing!

If you want to get in touch I will be happy to chat with you. Below you find my email and my LinkedIn profile.

Resume upon request.

                             

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My Experience so far...


I have been working since 2019 in Dr. Gluckman’s laboratory in the Centre of Neural Engineering at Penn State, developing solutions to help in brain studies and creating tools to interface with it.

In 2021 I started working in Dr. Adair’s Laboratory to fabricate Silica Nanoparticles for biomedical application in the brain, to use in parallel in Dr. Gluckman’s lab.

Since the start of college I have been taking courses spanning Neuroscience, Solid Physics, Nanotechnology, Electromagnetism, and Biomedical Engineering.
In my spare time I have also been working on codes in MATLAB and side projects in these subjects to enrich and strengthen my knowledge in the subjects.
Me!

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aascani2@jh.edu
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ava6130@psu.edu
Antenna design and communication module for fully implantable micro ECoG Device (2022) Fluorescent Porous Silica Nanoparticles for Analyte sensing in the brain (2022) Soft Digital Computer Interface (2022) BCI for Social Media control through detected EEG emotional states (2021) Fun with MATLAB Smart Environment for Behavior Studies on Animals (2020)