Francesco Pappalardo is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Catania, Italy and Visiting Professor at Metropolitan College of Boston, USA. His major research area is on computational modeling in systems biomedicine, with a special focus on the immune system and immunotherapies.
Francesco Pappalardo serves the scientific community as editorial board member, reviewer and program committee member for major journals and conferences in the area of computer science and computational biology.
Since 2007, Prof. Pappalardo serves as an expert evaluator for several International Institutions including the European Community in the evaluation of proposals towards objectives of the ICT for Health and computational modeling in biomedicine.He co-leaded computational modeling projects funded by European Commission and pharmaceutical companies.