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

Full professor ("Professore ordinario")
Department of Mathematics and Applications
University of Naples Federico II

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, bioreactors.

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 (1), 2018

Guest editor (with L. Russo, C. Siettos and N. Stollenwerk): Mathematical Modelling and Analysis in Health and Natural Sciences. Ricerche di Matematica, vol. 69 (2), 2020

Here you can enjoy the free download of the the book of History of Population Dynamics (in Italian) by Nicolas Bacaer, book to which I have infinitesimally contributed with a few translations.

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: 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)

2021: Full professor in Mathematical Physics

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.

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 seminars series (2014-2018)

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.

Boards

Board member of the PhD program in Mathematics and Applications XXXV cycle, University of Naples Federico II, 2019

Committees

Member of Examination Committee, PhD thesis defence:

University of Trento (Jan 2015); Addis Ababa University (Jan, 2018) Strathmore University of Nairobi (Apr 2018); University of Catania (Mar 2020)

Scientific associations

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

Postgraduate advisory 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)

Undergraduate 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