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Making sense of how the skin responds to our thermal environments

Heat, 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.
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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 team

Davide Filingeri, PhD
Principal Investigator
Aikaterini Christogianni, MSc
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researcher
Charlotte Merrick, MSc
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PhD researcher
Alessandro Valenza, MSc
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PhD researcher
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Our research projects

We work at the interface of thermal physiology, skin biophysics, and somatosensory neuroscience. Our research activities are performed in collaboration with academic partners in the USA, Australia, France, and Italy, as well as with industrial collaborators.
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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 US

Dr 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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