Making sense of how the skin responds to our thermal environmentsHeat, cold, and humidity have a profound impact on our health and comfort. Better understanding how our skin detects and reacts to thermal challenges is key to drive innovation in skin care and comfort in health and disease.
At THERMOSENSELAB we investigate how humans sense temperature and wetness on their skin, how these signals contribute to regulating our body temperature and thermal behaviour, and how neurodegeneration in the form of Multiple Sclerosis impairs thermo-sensing and -regulatory mechanisms. Being part of the Skin Health Research Group at the University of Southampton, with a long history in skin health and tissue viability research in relation to pressure ulcer development and medical device evaluation, THERMOSENSELAB specializes in mechanistic research in human skin thermosensing in health and neurodegeneration. |
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Research teamDavide Filingeri, PhD
Principal Investigator Aikaterini Christogianni, MSc
PhD researcher Charlotte Merrick, MSc
PhD researcher Alessandro Valenza, MSc
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Spotlight on our research
Our work on skin wetness sensing makes the cover of the Journal of Physiology and features as a Physiology Short |
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CONTACT USDr Davide Filingeri
THERMOSENSELAB Skin Health Research Group Clinical Academic Facility University Hospitals Southampton Trust University of Southampton Southampton, UK Email: d.filingeri@soton.ac.uk |
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