Brogioli, Michael, Dr.

Michael Brogioli completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Human Movement Sciences and Sport with a focus on Exercise Physiology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland (ETH Zürich). During his Master’s, he was selected by the ERASMUS program to carry out his Master’s Thesis at the Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). Under the supervision of Prof. Martin Flück he researched the effects of the vasoconstrictor Angiotensin 2 on glucose oxidation during endurance training. For his PhD in neuroscience, Michael Brogioli joined the Spinal Cord Injury Center at Balgrist University Hospital. He developed algorithms for wearable sensors capable of quantifying upper–limb movements and investigated their clinical application during SCI rehabilitation. Currently, Michael Brogioli continues to develop methodologies for wearable sensors in his postdoctoral research at the Spinal Cord Injury Center.

Michael’s research interests are in the field of exercise and muscle physiology, neuroscience, spinal cord injury, and long-term activity monitoring.

Publications

Werner L. Popp, Michael Brogioli, Kaspar Leuenberger, Urs Albisser, Angela Frotzler, Armin Curt, Roger Gassert, Michelle L. Starkey (2016). A novel algorithm for detecting active propulsion in wheelchair users following spinal cord injury. Medical Engineering & Physics.

David Vaughan, Michael Brogioli, Thomas Maier, Andy White, Sarah Waldron, Jörn Rittweger, Marco Toigo, Jessica Wettstein, Endre Laczko, Martin Flück (2016). The Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Insertion/Deletion Polymorphism Modifies Exercise- Induced Muscle Metabolism. PLoS ONE.

Michael Brogioli, Werner Louis Popp, Urs Albisser, Anne Katrin Brust, Angela Frotzler, Roger Gassert, Armin Curt, Michelle Louise Starkey (2016). Novel sensor technology to assess independence and limb-use laterality in cervical spinal cord injury. Journal of Neurotrauma.