Silvia Conforto is Full Professor of Bioengineering at DIIEM, University of Roma Tre.

Her main research interests concern signal and image processing in biomedical field, human motion analysis, motor control. He devoted particular attention to the techniques of surface myoelectric signal processing in static and dynamic conditions. Since 2004 he has worked in the development of devices for sports performance evaluation. In this field he is co-inventor of a national patent and two international patents. More recently he started to work on ergonomics and quantitative biomechanical risk assessment.

Since 2000, she has worked in many research projects founded by national (FIRB, PRIN) and international (EU-FP7) institutions and she was the winner of the 2015 and 2019 BRIC calls provided by INAIL.