Bernardo Magnani received the Laurea Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pisa in 1995 and in 1999 he obtained the Ph.D. in Microsystems Engineering at SSSA. He was Project Manager of the BIOMED2/MIAS project, coordinated by SSSA and aimed at the devel-opment of an integrated system for Computer Assisted Surgery for Minimally Invasive Arthros-copy. From 1999 to 2000 he was the Project Manager of the EU project “Medical Micro-Instrument Competence Centre” in the framework of Europractice. In 2000 he became General Manager of Ekymed.

Fabio Leoni received his Master Degree in Computer Science from Dipartimento di Informatica - University of Pisa, Italy in July 1997 and the Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Genova in 2001. He covered a Post-doc Fellow position at the BioRobotics Institute of SSSA assisting the management of the Industrial Research and Development (IRD) Group of SSSA. Since No-vember 2013 he has taken office as President of Fastenica s.r.l. in order to exploit the industrial research activity performed by IRD Group.

Francesca Rossi is Researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara”, of the Italian National Research Council, where she collaborates since 2003. Her skills are in the studies of light-tissue interactions. At present her research interests include experimental and theoretical studies on the temperature dynamics during light irradiations of bio-tissue. She is involved in the coordination of research activities in the framework of several regional, national and European projects, with a focus on the development of new surgical, therapeutic and diagnostic laser-based approaches in Ophthalmology, Dermatology, Neurosurgery, etc. She is author of more than 30 papers published in peer-reviewed international scientific journals; she is author of 6 patents.