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Federica Masci serves as a Research Fellow at KU Leuven within the Animal and Human (A2H) research unit at the Arenberg campus, actively contributing to the Leuven One Health Institute's mission of integrating human, animal, and environmental health through interdisciplinary collaboration. Her work focuses on occupational health and safety challenges across transportation, forestry, agriculture, and home care sectors, leveraging technological innovations for real-world impact.
Her research expertise spans occupational ergonomics, biomechanical risk assessment, and wearable technology validation, with significant contributions to understanding stressors in road freight drivers, ergonomic hazards in dairy farming, and spinal overload in forestry workers. She pioneers humanity-centered design approaches for mobile health applications within One Health frameworks, emphasizing stakeholder engagement and practical interventions for musculoskeletal disorder prevention.
Analysis of her 2023-2025 publications reveals three dominant trends: systematic reviews for WHO/ILO occupational disease burden estimation (particularly dust/fiber exposures), rigorous validation of commercial wearables against clinical standards (e.g., polysomnography for sleep tracking), and strategic foresight methodologies predicting home care technology evolution. Her work consistently bridges engineering, public health, and veterinary medicine through human-centered technological solutions.
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Dr. Masci collaborates extensively with the Leuven One Health Institute and Animal and Human (A2H) research unit, which facilitate cross-disciplinary projects like the MILESTONE initiative for occupational driver monitoring. These groups provide critical infrastructure for her work on wearable validation studies, stakeholder perspective analyses, and future scenario development in occupational health technology.