Michele Campiti is full professor in Mathematical Analysis at the University of Salento since 2003; prior to that he served for several years at the University and Polytechnic of Bari, and, at the beginning of his career, he has worked at the University of Basilicata.
His research topics mainly concern: positive approximation processes; approximation of solutions of degenerate parabolic problems by means of iterates of positive operators; connections between Voronovskaya-type formulae, semigroup theory and cosine functions; qualitative properties of semigroups and connections with the regularity of solutions of parabolic problems; general aspects of Korovkin-type approximation theory; approximation of continuous multivalent functions in the sense of Hausdorff.
He has authored more than sixty international publications, including a monograph and several chapters in international monographs, as well as numerous publications in Proceedings of International Conferences. Prof. Campiti is also the author of textbooks and editor of several Proceedings of International Conferences.
He has also distinguished himself for his management activities, having, among other things, served as Director of the Polytechnic Section of the Interuniversity Department of Mathematics of the University and Polytechnic of Bari, from 2000 to 2002, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Salento, in the four-year period 2012-2016 and from 2018 to 2020. He is currently (from March 2020) Director of the Department of Mathematics and Physics "E. De Giorgi" of the University of Salento.
His scientific-organizational activities include being a member of the Scientific Technical Committee of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Functional Analysis and Approximation Theory, established at the University of Basilicata and chaired by Prof. Mastroianni from 1990 until his termination in 2010. During those years, he actively participated in the organization of no less than six editions of the international conference "Functional Analysis and Approximation Theory" at Acquafredda di Maratea (Basilicata region, Italy). Currently he is a member of the Council of the Gruppo di Lavoro U.M.I. "Teoria dell'Approssimazione e Applicazioni.