Dr. Oriella Gnarra

Senior Research Assistant

University of Bern, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Gerontechnology & Rehabilitation

E-Mail
oriella.gnarra@unibe.ch
E-Mail2
oriella.gnarra@insel.ch
Postal Address
ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research
Gerontechnology & Rehabilitation
Freiburgstrasse 3
3010 Bern

• 04/2024 – Present: Postdoc at the Spinal Cord Injury and Artificial Intelligence Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
• 04/2024 – 09/2024: Postdoc Visiting Research at the Smart Robots Design Lab, Tohoku University, Japan.
• 12/2019 – 03/2024: PhD Student at the Sensory-Motor System Lab, ETH Zurich; Sleep-Wake Epilepsy Center, Insel University Hospital; and Gerontechnology and Rehabilitation Lab, University of Bern, Switzerland.
• 04/2018 – 12/2018: Master’s thesis student at the Neuroengineering Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland and Neuroengineering and Medical Robotics Lab, Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi), Italy.
• 10/2015 – 12/2018: MSc Biomedical Engineering, Specialization in Electronics for Medicine, PoliMi, Italy.
• 10/2012 – 09/2015: BSc Electronics Engineering, PoliMi, Italy.
• 09/2012 – 03/2018: Student and Student Representative, honor college, Collegio di Milano, Italy. Main courses attended: Logic and tools to organize companies, public speaking, negotiation, and sales.

2019: Research Assistant, Neuroengineering Lab, Department of Health Science and Technologies, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2018: Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering, Specialization in Electronics for Medicine, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

2017: Visiting Student, École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Paris, France

2015: Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 

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2024

Gnarra, Oriella; van der Meer, Julia; Warncke D, Jan; Fregolente, Livia G; Wenz, Elena; Zub, Kseniia; Nwachukwu, Uchendu; Zhang, Zhongxing; Khatami, Ramin; von Manitius, Sigrid; Miano, Silvia; Acker, Jens; Strub, Mathias; Riener, Robert; Bassetti, Claudio L. A.; Schmidt, Markus H (2024). SPHYNCS: Feasibility of long-term monitoring with Fitbit smartwatches in central disorders of hypersomnolence and extraction of digital biomarkers in narcolepsy. Sleep, 47(9) Oxford University Press 10.1093/sleep/zsae083

Ferini-Strambi, Luigi; Liguori, Claudio; Lucey, Brendan P; Mander, Bryce A; Spira, Adam P; Videnovic, Aleksandar; Baumann, Christian; Franco, Oscar; Fernandes, Mariana; Gnarra, Oriella; Krack, Paul; Manconi, Mauro; Noain, Daniela; Saxena, Smita; Kallweit, Ulf; Randerath, Winfried; Trenkwalder, C; Rosenzweig, Ivana; Iranzo, Alex; Bradicich, Matteo; ... (2024). Correction to: Role of sleep in neurodegeneration: the consensus report of the 5th Think Tank World Sleep Forum. Neurological sciences, 45(4), p. 1813. Springer 10.1007/s10072-024-07391-1

Ferini-Strambi, Luigi; Liguori, Claudio; Lucey, Brendan P; Mander, Bryce A; Spira, Adam P; Videnovic, Aleksandar; Baumann, Christian; Franco, Oscar; Fernandes, Mariana; Gnarra, Oriella; Krack, Paul; Manconi, Mauro; Noain, Daniela; Saxena, Smita; Kallweit, Ulf; Randerath, Winfried; Trenkwalder, C; Rosenzweig, Ivana; Iranzo, Alex and Bassetti, Claudio (2024). Role of sleep in neurodegeneration: the consensus report of the 5th Think Tank World Sleep Forum. Neurological sciences, 45(2), pp. 749-767. Springer 10.1007/s10072-023-07232-7

Duss, Simone B.; Vorster, Albrecht P. A.; Urech, Antoine; Schmitt, Wolfgang J.; Beck, Jonas; Hilt, Daniella; Gnarra, Oriella; van der Meer, Julia; Tüzün, Marina; Berger, Thomas; Schäfer, Carolin; Brill, Anne-Kathrin; Schmidt, Markus H.; Schindler, Kaspar A.; Bassetti, Claudio L. A. (2024). The Swiss Sleep House Bern—A New Approach to Sleep Medicine. Clinical and translational neuroscience, 8(1) Sage Publications 10.3390/ctn8010014

2023

Gnarra, Oriella; Calvello, Carmen; Schirinzi, Tommaso; Beozzo, Francesca; De Masi, Claudia; Spanetta, Matteo; Fernandes, Mariana; Grillo, Piergiorgio; Cerroni, Rocco; Pierantozzi, Mariangela; Bassetti, Claudio L. A.; Mercuri, Nicola Biagio; Stefani, Alessandro; Liguori, Claudio (2023). Exploring the Association Linking Head Position and Sleep Architecture to Motor Impairment in Parkinson's Disease: An Exploratory Study. Journal of personalized medicine, 13(11) MDPI 10.3390/jpm13111591

Gnarra, Oriella; Breuss, Alexander; Rossi, Lorenzo; Fujs, Manuel; Knobel, Samuel E. J.; Warncke, Jan; Gerber, Stephan M.; Bassetti, Claudio L. A.; Riener, Robert; Nef, Tobias; Schmidt, Markus H. (2023). Transferability of a Sensing Mattress for Posture Classification from Research into Clinics. IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2023, pp. 1-6. IEEE 10.1109/ICORR58425.2023.10304684

Gnarra, Oriella; Wulf, M; Schäfer, C; Nef, T; Bassetti, C (2023). REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder, a narrative review from a technological perspective. Sleep, 46(6) American Academy of Sleep Medicine 10.1093/sleep/zsad030

2022

Gnarra, O; van der Meer, J; Warncke, J; Wenz, E; Fragolente, L.; Khatami, R; Schindler, K; Tzovara, A; Schmidt, M H; Bassetti, C L (2022). SPHYNCS: Longterm monitoring with Fitbit in patients with narcolepsy and its borderland. Sleep medicine, 100, S105-S106. Elsevier 10.1016/j.sleep.2022.05.294

Gallego Vázquez, Cristina; Breuss, Alexander; Gnarra, Oriella; Portmann, Julian; Madaffari, Antonio; Da Poian, Giulia (2022). Label noise and self-learning label correction in cardiac abnormalities classification. Physiological measurement, 43(9) Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/1361-6579/ac89cb

Vazquez, Cristina Gallego; Breuss, Alexander; Gnarra, Oriella; Portmann, Julian; Da Poian, Giulia (10 January 2022). Two Will Do: CNN With Asymmetric Loss, Self-Learning Label Correction, and Hand-Crafted Features for Imbalanced Multi-Label ECG Data Classification. In: 2021 Computing in Cardiology (CinC) (pp. 1-4). IEEE 10.23919/CinC53138.2021.9662741

Ancona, Stefania; Faraci, Francesca D; Khatab, Elina; Fiorillo, Luigi; Gnarra, Oriella; Nef, Tobias; Bassetti, Claudio L. A.; Bargiotas, Panagiotis (2022). Wearables in the home-based assessment of abnormal movements in Parkinson's disease: a systematic review of the literature. Journal of neurology, 269(1), pp. 100-110. Springer-Medizin-Verlag 10.1007/s00415-020-10350-3

2021

Schmidt, Markus H.; Dekkers, Martijn P. J.; Baillieul, Sébastien; Jendoubi, Jasmine; Wulf, Marie-Angela; Wenz, Elena; Gomes, Livia; Vorster, Albrecht; Gnarra, Oriella; Bassetti, Claudio L.A. (2021). Measuring Sleep, Wakefulness, and Circadian Functions in Neurologic Disorders. Sleep medicine clinics, 16(4), pp. 661-671. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jsmc.2021.08.005

Schindler, Kaspar A.; Nef, Tobias; Baud, Maxime; Tzovara, Athina; Yilmaz, Gürkan; Tinkhauser, Gerd; Gerber, Stephan M.; Gnarra, Oriella; Warncke, Jan D.; Schütz, Narayan; Knobel, Samuel E. J.; Schmidt, Markus H.; Krack, Paul; Fröhlich, Flavio; Sznitman, Raphael; Rothen, Simon; Bassetti, Claudio L.A. (2021). NeuroTec Sitem-Insel Bern: Closing the Last Mile in Neurology. Clinical and translational neuroscience, 5(2), p. 13. MDPI 10.3390/ctn5020013