Dario Farina received Ph.D. degrees in automatic control and computer science and in electronics and communications engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France, and Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and an Honorary Doctorate degree in Medicine from Aalborg University, Denmark.

He is currently a Full Professor and Chair in Neurorehabilitation Engineering at the Department of Bioengineering of Imperial College London, UK.

He has previously been a Full Professor at Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, and at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University, Germany, where he founded and directed the Department of Neurorehabilitation Systems. His research focuses on biomedical signal processing, neurorehabilitation technology, and neural control of movement. Professor Farina has been the President of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology (ISEK) and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the official Journal of this Society, the Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology.

He is also currently an Editor for several other scientific Journals, such as Science Advances, IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, Wearable Technologies, and IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. Professor Farina has been elected Fellow IEEE, AIMBE, ISEK, EAMBES.