Maide Angela Rita BUCOLO

Current & Previous  Positions 

(From 1 November 2014 up to now) Associate Professor in S.C. “09/G1-Systems and Control Engineering”, S.S.D09/IINF-04 -AUTOMATICA”, at University of Catania.

(1 February 2006-31 October 2014) Assistant Professor ING-INF/04 “Automatica”, University of Catania.

(06 February 2023) National Scientific Qualification as full professor (Call 2021/2023, DM n. 553/2021 and 589/2021) for the disciplinary field of “09/G1-Systems and Control Engineering” (https://asn21.cineca.it/pubblico/miur/esito-abilitato/09%252FG1/1/4).

(November 2018- October 2022) Coordinator of the Master Course in Automation Engineering and Control of Complex Systems at the University of Catania (LM-25).

Prize and awards 

(11-13 Sept 2019) Best presentation award at the Conference Automatica.it 2019 for the paper "Jump resonance in discrete-time systems: theory and applications", Ancona, Italy.

(24-26 June 2002) Awards as best poster at the IV International Workshop on Bio-Signal Interpretation 2002with the paper entitled ‘A Nonlinear Circuit Architecture for Magnetoencephalographic Signals Analysis’,Como, Italy

(25-28 October 2001)        Invited speaker at the 23^rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society’ (EMBC 2001), Istanbul, Turkey

(26-30 March 2001) Grant awarded to attend the European School on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2001), Palermo, Italy.

(27 June -11 July 1999) Grant awarded to attend the 4th International Summer School/Conference ‘Let’s Face Chaos through Nonlinear Dynamics’, Centre for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (CAMPT) University of Maribor, Slovenia.

Visiting Academic Positions 

(30 May – 03 June 2022) Visiting Professor Inst. Superior de Engenharia do Porto-ISEP (PORTUGAL)

(06-10 Dec. 2021) Visiting Professor Inst. National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse (FRANCE)

(02-08 June 2019) Visiting Professor University of Malta @ Dept. of Systems and Control Engineering

(01-06 May 2017) Visiting Professor  Heriot-Watt University @ Inst. of Signal, Sensors and Systems (Edinburgh, UK)

(21 Sept.-18 Oct. 2015) Visiting Professor University of Heidelberg @ Dept. of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience (GERMANY)

(Nov. 2013) Visiting Professor University of California San Diego @ Dept. of Bioengineering - Microhemodynamics Lab (USA)

(March 2011 e July 2012) Visiting researcher University of Heidelberg @ Dept. of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience (GERMANY)

(Sept. 2004) Visiting researcher, and  (March-July 2000) Research Scholar University of California San Diego @ Dept. of Bioengineering - Microhemodynamics Lab (USA)

(April 2008, Sept. 2008) Visiting researcher University of Portsmouth @ Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, (UK)

Teaching activities & PhD 

School of Engineering of the University of Catania teaching

(From a.a 2023/24  up to now) “BIO-ELECTRICITY IN HUMAN BODY: SYSTEMS AND CONTROL” MSc in Automation Engineering and Control of Complex Systems (medium English). 

(From 2023/24  up to now) “BIOTECHNOLOGY AND LAB-ON-A CHIP” MSc in Automation Engineering and Control of Complex Systems (medium English).

(From 2015/2016 up to now) “SYSTEM THEORY” (BSc).

(From 2012/2013 up to 2022/23) “BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS AND CONTROL” MSc in Automation Engineering and Control of Complex Systems (medium English).

(From 2006 up to 2012) “FUNDAMENTALS OF BIO-ENGINEERING” (MSc, medium English).

(From 2006 up to now) Supervisor of more than 100 BSc and MSc final projects.

(From 2006 up to now) Supervisor of 11 PhD theses

National & International  Collaboration 

The research activity carried out, mainly related with the areas described below, is summarized.  The different activities are developed at the Bio-Control Lab at the University of Catania working in collaboration with different international research partners and enterprises.

• (Since 2000) Prof. Marcos Intaglietta, Micro-hemodynamics Lab - UCSD, USA
• (Since 2007-2012) Dr Andreu Llobera,Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona(CNM), Spain
• (Since 2017) Prof. Maiwenn Kersaudy-Kerhoas, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
• -(Since 2019)  Prof Lucien Baldas , at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse, France
• (Since 2022) dr. Pasquale Memmolo, Istituto di Scienze Applicate e Sistemi Intelligenti (ISASI), CNR, Pozzuoli, Italy.
• (Since 2022) dr. Massimo Camarda , CEO STLab, Catania, Italy
• (Since 2024) prof Biagio Mandracchia. Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
• (Since 2024) prof. Susana Cardoso Freitas, Instituto Superior Técnico and INESC-Microsistemas and Nanotecnologias of the University of Lisbon
• (Since 2024) prof. Nicole Pamme, Stockholm University, Sweden

Metrics Scopus at Maggio 2026 (H-index 24, Documents 124, Citations 1,817)