Progam Chair

Anna Procopio received her M.S. degree in biomedical engineering, in 2016, followed by a Ph.D. in molecular and translational oncology and innovative medical-surgical technologies for the curriculum in biomedical, systems, and applied nanotechnology engineering, in 2020 at the University of Magna Graecia of Catanzaro. Currently, She is a research fellow in Bioengineering at the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine of the University of Magna Graecia of Catanzaro. Her research activity is mainly focused on systems and synthetic biology. She specializes in developing and evaluating mathematical models to understand complex biological processes underlying various diseases. Her research also involves reconstructing genome-scale metabolic models, developing hybrid pipelines to enhance mechanistic model outcomes, and analyzing chemical reaction networks to devise genetic circuitry.
She has authored scientific publications in international journals in the field and oral communications at national and international congresses.

Francesco Amato was born in Naples on February 2, 1965. He received the Laurea and the PhD Degree both in Electronic Engineering from the University of Naples in 1990 and 1994 respectively. From 2001 to 2003 he has been Full Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Reggio Calabria. In 2003 he moved to the University of Catanzaro as Full Professor of Automatic Control and, from 2010 to 2018, as Full Professor of Bioengineering. At the University of Catanzaro, he has been the Dean of the School of Computer and Biomedical Engineering, the Coordinator of the Doctorate School in Biomedical and Computer Engineering, the Director of the Biomechatronics Laboratory. In 2018 he moved to the University of Naples Federico II, as Full Professor of Bioengineering, where he currently is the dean of the School of Biomedical Engineering. The scientific activity of Francesco Amato has developed in the fields of systems and control theory, of computational biology and of the modeling and control of biomedical systems. He has published about 370 papers in international Journals and conference proceedings, and three monographies, two with Springer Verlag and one with Wiley. He has participated to several financed projects in the Biomedical Engineering context. He serves as reviewer for the most important journals in the field of Bioengineering and Automatic Control, and has revised many research projects both at the national and at the international level.

Francesco Montefusco received the Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering in July 2005 from University of Naples Federico II, Italy, and the Ph.D. in Biomedical and Computer Engineering in January 2010 from Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro, Italy. From March to June 2009, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Control and Instrumentation Research Group in the Department of Engineering of the University of Leicester, UK. He worked as Associate Research Fellow at University of Exeter, UK, from March 2010 to July 2013, and at University of Warwick, UK, from August 2013 to March 2014. From April 2014 to November 2019, he was a Research Fellow (2014-17) and Senior Research Fellow (2017-19) at University of Padua, Italy. From April 2020 to January 2022, he was a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Systems and Control Engineering at University of Sassari, Italy. Since February 2022, he has been a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Systems and Control Engineering at University of Naples Parthenope, Italy. His research interests are in the field of Systems and Control Theory, with particular emphasis on the Systems and Synthetic Biology area, by the development and application of methods for modeling, analysis, reverse engineering, design and control of biological systems at different scales, from sub-cellular and cellular systems to organisms and populations. Currently, he is Associate Editor for IET Control Theory & Applications, International Journal of Dynamics and Control and Franklin Open journals.