Problems in Mathematical Biophysics: A Volume in Memory of Alberto Gandolfi

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Alberto dOnofrio (M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Pisa University 1993; Ph.D. in Medical Computer Science Rome La Sapienza University 2000) is Senior Researcher at the Mathematics Informatics and Geosciences Department of Trieste University Italy. Previously he has been at the European Institute of Oncology as Group Leader in 'Systems Biomedicine' (2009-2014) researcher (2000-2008) and postdoc (2000-2002); at the International Prevention Research Institute Lyon as Directeur de Recherche (2014-2020). He has also been visiting Professor at the Mathematics and Statistics Department of Strathclyde University (2017-2020). A pioneer of behavioral epidemiology of infectious diseases his research interests lie at the interface between mathematical theoretical and computational biophysics. He has published 148 scientific papers edited 5 books for Springer and directed 3 international conferences. His current Google Scholar H-index is 45. Alberto dOnofrio and Alberto Gandolfi were friends and collaborators. They co-wrote 14 papers coedited 2 Springer books and co-directed an international Conference.  Antonio Fasano (MSc in Physics at Florence University 1966) is currently Emeritus Professor at University of Florence (since 2011) Scientific Director at FIAB a company producing electromedical devices (since January 2013). Previously he has been full professor of Analytical Mechanics at the Universities of Bari (1975-78) and of Florence (1978-2011). He has been teacher in advanced courses in Italian and foreign Universities worldwide. He has organized many international Conferences on Applied Mathematics and directed many research contracts in pure and applied mathematics as well as industrial research contracts (oil transportation polymers glass food industry steel geothermal fields). He is member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei of the Accademia di Ingegneria e Tecnologia and of the Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere. Founding member and Past President (1991-1992) of the European Consortium of Mathematics in Industry. His research focuses on many areas of industrial and biomedical interest. Author of several international patents concerning electromedical devices. He is also active in History of Medicine and in writing Fiction.   Federico Papa is Researcher at the Institute for Systems Analysis and Computer Science A. Ruberti (IASI) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He graduated in Biomedical Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome in 2009 and he received the PhD in Systems Engineering from the same institution in 2012. He has been a researcher fellow of the IASI-CNR for six years (from 2012 to 2018) working with the Biomathematics research group. He won a regular position at IASI-CNR in 2018 joining the research group in Mathematical modeling in biomedicine. His research focuses mainly on:  Mathematical Biophysics; Mathematical Oncology; Mathematical Epidemiology; Systems Biology; Dynamic System Identification and Filtering; Optimal Control Theory.  Carmela Sinisgalli is currently Senior Researcher Scientist at the Institute for Systems Analysis and Computer Science A. Ruberti (IASI) of the National Research Council of Italy. She received her PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Rome Sapienza developing part of the thesis work at IASI under the guidance of Dr. Bertuzzi and Dr. Gandolfi who then led the Biomathematics research group. After some years working in industry on automated systems for signal and image processing she joined IASI taking up a researcher position in the area of mathematical modeling in biology and medicine. The research activity mainly concerned the formulation and numerical simulation of dynamical models of structured population growth particularly of tumor growth and treatment and more recently of tumor invasion and angiogenesis.