Prof. BRUNO BUONOMO
Department of Mathematics and Applications
University of Naples Federico II
via Cintia
I-80126 NAPLES
ITALY

Email:
buonomo@unina.it

Office: No 111, Level 5
Phone: (+39) 081-675630
FAX: (+39) 081-7662106 (Dept.)

Alternative sites:

Page on Google Scholar
Page on ORCID
Page on Research Gate
Page on Academia.edu
Page on UNINA
Math Genealogy Project

Bruno Buonomo Home Page

Present position

Associate professor ("Professore associato")
Department of Mathematics and Applications
University of Naples Federico II

Qualified as Full professor ("Professore ordinario") by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) (National Scientific Qualification 2017)

Research interests

Dynamical Systems, theory and applications.

Specific fields: Mathematics for Biology and Medicine, Mathematical Epidemiology, Population Dynamics, Optimal Control.

Some specific topics: Information dependent epidemic models, Host-vector interactions, Malaria models, Plant-pathogen interactions.

Erdős Number: 5

Editorial

Editorial board member, "Applied Mathematical Modelling" (Elsevier) (2016-date)

Guest editor (with A. Di Liddo and L. Petrosjan): Optimal Control and Management of Infectious Diseases. Mathematics, MDPI publishing, Basel, 2015

Guest editor (with A. d'Onofrio and N. Chitnis): Demographic and temporal heterogeneity in infectious disease epidemiology. Ricerche di Matematica, vol. 67, 2018

Publications

See the publications page

Education and professional path

1993: Mathematics Degree, University of Naples Federico II

1994-1999: PhD Program ("Dottorato di Ricerca") in Mathematics, University of Naples Federico II

1999-2000: Post-doc grant, University of Glasgow

2000: Permanent position as Assistant professor ("Ricercatore") in Mathematical Physics, University of Naples Federico II

2003: Senior assistant professor ("Ricercatore confermato")

2013: Qualified as Associate professor in Mathematical Physics (ASN 2012)

2014: Associate professor in Mathematical Physics, University of Naples Federico II

2017: Qualified as Full professor in Mathematical Physics (ASN 2017)

International visiting

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. CNR (Italian National Research Council) grant. July 1999 - February 2000

Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, October 2004 (Host: Ma Zhien)

Southwest Normal University, Chongqing, China, October 2008 (Host: Wang Wendi)

University of Gulu, Uganda. (GULUNAP project). February 2009

Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan (UADY), Mexico, September 2012 (Host: E. Avila-Vales)

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) September 2012 FARO Project (Host: G. Gomez-Alcaraz)

Fudan University, Shanghai, China, October 2012 (Host: Wu Zongmin)

International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France, July 2015 (Host: A. d'Onofrio)

University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. London Math. Soc. grant. October 2015 (Host: M. Cerasuolo)

University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. December 2015 (Host: S. M. Kassa)

University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. December 2018 (Host: S. M. Kassa and T. Abdi)

National visiting

Istituto per Ricerche di Matematica Applicata (IRMA-CNR), Bari . December 1997 (Host: A. Di Liddo)

Università di Bari, March 1999 (Host: M. Maiellaro) and June 2004 (Host: F. Mazzia)

Università di Foggia, April 2004 (Host: A. Di Liddo)

Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche (IMATI-CNR), Milan. March 2012 (Host: S. Pasquali)

Università di Trento, March 2013 (Hosts: M. Iannelli, A. Pugliese) and January 2015 (Host: A. Pugliese)

Università di Catania, February 2017 (Host: G. Mulone)

Università di Parma, February 2017 (Host: M. Groppi)

International cooperation

Italian Coordinator of NAASCO, bilateral agreement of scientific cooperation between the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Addis Ababa, 2016-2021

Departmental coordinator of Erasmus+ programme between the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Iasi, Romania, 2016/17-2020/21

Scientific Projects

Mathematical methods and models in Ecology: aquaculture and phytodepuration plants (Principal Investigator), Gruppo Nazionale per la Fisica Matematica (GNFM), 2002-2003

Analysis of two recent methods for global stability and applications to ODE and PDE models in Population Dynamics (Principal Investigator), Gruppo Nazionale per la Fisica Matematica (GNFM), 2007-2008

Dynamics of complex systems and applications in Biology and Economics (Principal Investigator), Gruppo Nazionale per la Fisica Matematica (GNFM), 2009-2010

FARO Funds for Original Research, University of Naples Federico II (Member), Jan-Dec 2012

Analysis and Control of Diffusion Processes (Principal Investigator), Gruppo Nazionale per la Fisica Matematica (GNFM), 2012-2013

Analysis of complex biological systems (Principal Investigator), Local project, Department of Mathematics, University of Naples Federico II, 2015-2016

Local coordinator of project SIES (Strategic Initiatives for the Environment and Security), the National Institute of Advanced Mathematics (INdAM) in partnership with the National Institute of Geophisics and Volcanology (INGV), 2017-2019 ("progetto premiale FOE2014" funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR)). Coordinator: Vincenzo Vespri.

Present and past collaborations

Eric AVILA-VALES (UADY, Yucatan, Mexico)

Marianna CERASUOLO (University of Portsmouth, UK)

Nakul CHITNIS (Swiss TPH, Basel, Switzerland)

Rossella DELLA MARCA (University of Parma)

Andrea DI LIDDO (IRMA-CNR, Bari. Presently at University of Foggia)

Alberto d'ONOFRIO (Int. Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France)

Paolo FERGOLA (University of Naples Federico II)

Vincent HULL (National Hydrobiology Laboratory, Rome)

Semu M. KASSA (Botswana International University of Science)

Deborah LACITIGNOLA (University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale)

Eleonora MESSINA (University of Naples Federico II)

Salvatore RIONERO (University of Naples Federico II)

Cruz VARGAS-DE-LEON (University of Guerrero, Mexico)

Conferences/Invited talks

See the talks page

Organizing activities

Conferences and meetings

1st International Conference on Mathematics and Environment, Naples, 1994
2nd International Conference on Mathematics and Environment, Naples, 1996
3rd International Conference on Mathematics and Environment, Naples, 1998
1st China-Italy colloquium on Applied Mathematics (CICAM), Naples, 2000
Symposium on Trends in the Application of Mathematics to Mechanics (STAMM), Maiori, 2002
New Trends in Mathematical Physics, Naples, 2003
3rd China-Italy colloquium on Applied Mathematics (CICAM), Naples, 2006

Minisymposia

Infectious Diseases Spread: Control and Optimal Control. In: MathCompEpi 2015, Erice, Italy, 2015

Departmental research seminars

Alberto d'Onofrio (IPRI, Lyon ): The new theory of mathematics of epidemics: whispers, shouts and imitations. June 19, 2014.
Nakul Chitnis (Swiss TPH, Basel ): Mathematical models of mosquito population dynamics and malaria. September 24, 2014.
Zin Mukandavire (London SHTM ): Cholera in Haiti and Zimbabwe: using mathematical models to understand disease transmission and interventions. Dec. 11, 2014.
Lev Idels (Vancouver Island Univ.): Delayed models of tumor growth: Lessons in mathematical modelling. May 20, 2015.
Lara Gosce' (Bristol Univ.): Mobility and contagion in confined and crowded environments: The London underground. October 1, 2015.
Dimitri Breda (Univ. Udine): Looking into the dynamics of structured populations. March 1, 2016.
Maria Groppi (Univ. Parma): Qualitative analysis of kinetic-based models for tumor-immune system interaction. December 5, 2016.
Yetwale Workineh (Addis Ababa Univ.): Mathematical modelling of meningitis with information-related behavioral change. November 21, 2017.
Andrea Giacobbe (Univ. Catania): Considerations on the Routh-Hurwitz condition, and an application to epidemiology. November 27, 2017.
Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths (UC London): Application of mathematical modelling to policy decision making. May 18, 2018.
Konstantin Blyuss (Univ. Sussex): Effects of population awareness and delayed response on the spread of epidemics. November 21, 2018.

Committees

Member of Examination Committee, PhD thesis defence, University of Trento, January 2015

Member of Examination Committee, PhD thesis defence, Addis Ababa University, January 2018

Member of Examination Committee, PhD thesis defence, Strathmore University, Nairobi, April 2018 (v.s.)

Scientific associations

National Group for Mathematical Physics (GNFM) (1994-date)
Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) (2013-date)
European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ESMTB) (2013-date)

Supervisor activities

Dr. Giorgio Martalò (2017-2019) Post-doc fellow within the project SIES (Strategic Initiatives for the Environment and Security), the National Institute of Advanced Mathematics (INdAM) in partnership with the National Institute of Geophisics and Volcanology (INGV)

Advisory activities

M.Sc. thesis in Mathematics (Tesi di laurea magistrale in Matematica)

B.Sc. thesis in Mathematics (Tesi di laurea in Matematica)
See the advisory activities page for a full list

Further undergraduate teaching activities (page in italian)

A page about my favourite hobby