Research

Publications

Peer-reviewed papers in sports science, AI, performance modelling, and endurance physiology. Auto-synced from OpenAlex via ORCID — no manual updates needed.

60

publications

563

citations

15

active years

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2026
3
AI-Driven Analysis of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Tests to Identify Gas Exchange and Ventilatory Thresholds

Sports Medicine

Beyond Euglycemia: Case Studies Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Elite Athletes Without Diabetes During Record Athletic Events

Sensors

Continuous Glucose Monitoring–Derived Glucose Metrics Over Time in Physically Active Adults Without Diabetes Using a Commercial Continuous Glucose Monitoring Application

Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology

2025
6
Continuous Glucose Monitoring Profiles in Elite-Level Professional European Football Players

Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology

1 ✦
Assessing Trajectories and Bike Handling Abilities in Road Cycling with Global Positioning System Data

Sensors

Topical collection: Fluid Dynamics in Sports

Sports Engineering

Real-time assessment of exercising maximal mean power and speed in endurance sports: a Garmin connect IQ App

Sports Engineering

Moderate heart rate-matched hypoxic exercise: autonomic and cardiovascular responses to different degrees of hypoxic stress

European Journal of Applied Physiology

A Preliminary Study on NLP-Based Personalized Support for Type 1 Diabetes Management
2024
5
Minimum Overnight Interstitial Glucose Concentration in Professional Cyclists During Two Consecutive Annual Training Camps: The Limited Impact of Daily Exercise Energy Expenditure

International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism

1 ✦
Assessing Energy Availability and Glucose Dynamics in Adolescent Cyclists: Implications for Nutritional Interventions During the Competitive Season

Nutrients

Design and development of a feedback system for automatic treadmill speed adaptation

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part P Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology

2 ✦
Real World Interstitial Glucose Profiles of a Large Cohort of Physically Active Men and Women

Sensors

15 ✦
Incorporating the maximal mean power profile in time-trial simulations for more efficient optimal pacing strategy calculations

Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento)

2023
7
Personalized nutrition and machine-learning: Exploring the scope of continuous glucose monitoring in healthy individuals in uncontrolled settings

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

7 ✦
Greater Number Of Cardio Sessions, Protein For Breakfast, And Reducing Fatigue Can Minimize Glucose Variability

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Indoor running temporal variability for different running speeds, treadmill inclinations, and three different estimation strategies

PLoS ONE

7 ✦
Association between pre‐exercise food ingestion timing and reactive hypoglycemia: Insights from a large database of continuous glucose monitoring data

European Journal of Sport Science

11 ✦
How the Oxynet web applications are used to crowdsource and interpret cardiopulmonary exercising tests data

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

2 ✦
The effects of a 6-hour ultra-endurance run on postexercise parasympathetic reactivation responses

The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness

Machine Learning Models for the Automatic Detection of Exercise Thresholds in Cardiopulmonary Exercising Tests: From Regression to Generation to Explanation

Sensors

20 ✦
2022
6
Eager to set a record in a vertical race? Test your VO <sub>2max</sub> first!

Journal of Sports Sciences

6 ✦
Insights in road cycling downhill performance using aerial drone footages and an ‘optimal’ reference trajectory

Sports Engineering

2 ✦
Automatic generation of realistic cardiopulmonary exercise test data with a conditional generative adversarial neural network
3 ✦
Estimating running kinematics variability with an IMU sensor placed on the runner's thorax
5 ✦
Developing a testing protocol to assess the mechanical properties of high-level cycling shoes
2 ✦
Biomechanical analysis and modeling of anterior cruciate ligament rupture conditions: focus on female football (soccer) players
2021
6
An intelligent curve warning system for road cycling races

Sports Engineering

2 ✦
Assessment of bike handling during cycling individual time trials with a novel analytical technique adapted from motorcycle racing

European Journal of Sport Science

8 ✦
Knee flexor and extensor torque ratio in elderly men and women with and without obesity: a cross-sectional study

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

9 ✦
Post-exercise cardiac autonomic and cardiovascular responses to heart rate-matched and work rate-matched hypoxic exercise

European Journal of Applied Physiology

7 ✦
Full characterisation of knee extensors’ function in ageing: effect of sex and obesity

International Journal of Obesity

14 ✦
Real-Time Cross-Dataset Quality Production Assessment in Industrial Laser Cutting Machines

Lecture notes in computer science

6 ✦
2020
7
Oxynet: A collective intelligence that detects ventilatory thresholds in cardiopulmonary exercise tests

European Journal of Sport Science

27 ✦
Muscle and tendon stiffness and belly gearing positively correlate with rate of torque development during explosive fixed end contractions

Journal of Biomechanics

38 ✦
Influence of corners and road conditions on cycling individual time trial performance and ‘optimal’ pacing strategy: A simulation study

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part P Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology

4 ✦
Post-Exercise Hypotension and Reduced Cardiac Baroreflex after Half-Marathon Run: In Men, but Not in Women

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

10 ✦
Prediction of pacing and cornering strategies during cycling individual time trials with optimal control

Sports Engineering

15 ✦
Shortening Work-Rest Durations Reduces Physiological and Perceptual Load During Uphill Walking in Simulated Cold High-Altitude Conditions

High Altitude Medicine & Biology

4 ✦
Estimating an individual’s oxygen uptake during cycling exercise with a recurrent neural network trained from easy-to-obtain inputs: A pilot study

PLoS ONE

34 ✦
2019
5
Similar cardiovascular and autonomic responses in trained type 1 diabetes mellitus and healthy participants in response to half marathon

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

8 ✦
Cardiac Autonomic and Physiological Responses to Moderate- intensity Exercise in Hypoxia

International Journal of Sports Medicine

13 ✦
Including a Musculoskeletal Model in the Control Loop of an Assistive Robot for the Design of Optimal Target Forces
4 ✦
State-of-the art concepts and future directions in modelling oxygen consumption and lactate concentration in cycling exercise

Sport Sciences for Health

13 ✦
Expert‐level classification of ventilatory thresholds from cardiopulmonary exercising test data with recurrent neural networks

European Journal of Sport Science

28 ✦
2018
3
Rationale for Researching in DOB/OC-Based Rehabilitation Robots: Simulation Results
1 ✦
Analysis of Assistive Strategies for Electric Bikes That Include Rider’s Physiological Characteristics
1 ✦
Delayed parasympathetic reactivation and sympathetic withdrawal following maximal cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) in hypoxia

European Journal of Applied Physiology

19 ✦
2017
3
Physiological factors associated with ski-mountaineering vertical race performance

Sport Sciences for Health

21 ✦
An optimal control solution to the predictive dynamics of cycling

Sport Sciences for Health

11 ✦
Variable compliance control for transfer support robot
2016
2
An optimal control approach to the high intensity interval training design

Journal Of Science & Cycling

An Extreme Mountain Ultra-Marathon Decreases the Cost of Uphill Walking and Running

Frontiers in Physiology

40 ✦
2015
1
Energy cost and kinematics of level, uphill and downhill running: fatigue-induced changes after a mountain ultramarathon

Journal of Sports Sciences

77 ✦
2014
3
Application to cycling of a bioenergetic model: Towards a multi-level biomechanical model for global cyclist performance analysis

Journal Of Science & Cycling

1 ✦
Influence of the world’s most challenging mountain ultra-marathon on energy cost and running mechanics

European Journal of Applied Physiology

64 ✦
Validation of a bioenergetic mathematical model to estimate oxygen consumption and lactate concentration in cycling
2013
2
Experimentally validated cyclist kinematic model: Towards a multi-level biomechanical model for optimal performance analysis

Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento)

Alterations in the ventilatory responses after the world's most challenging mountain ultra-marathon
2011
1
Application of Non-Linear Model Predictive Control to the Driving Task

Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento)