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Francesco Pappalardo earned his MSc. and PhD. degrees from University of Catania, in 2000 and 2004 respectively. Presently he is holding a postdoctoral fellow and he is temporarily assigned to the professorship of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Catania.


From 2001 to 2004 he did research in computer operating system security. In 2008 he was visiting researcher at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston (USA) while in 2006 he visited the Molecular Immunogenetics Labs, IMGT in

Montpellier (France).


His major research area is on modeling human and mouse immune system responses involved in several pathologies, including viral infections, tumors, and atherosclerosis. This effort leads to both a better understanding of the immune system, and to the application of these modeling approaches to vaccine research.


Up to now, Francesco Pappalardo published about 60 reviewed research papers. He 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, Francesco Pappalardo serves as expert evaluator for the European Community in the evaluation of proposals towards objectives of the ICT for Health theme of the FP7.

Employment and Education

  1. 1.Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Catania (2009-to date).

  2. 2.Postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Computing Applications "M. Picone", National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy (2008-2009).

  3. 3.Contract Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Course of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Catania (2006-to date).

  4. 4.Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Catania (2004-2008).

  5. 5.Ph.D. in Computer Science (2004).

  6. 6.Computer Science graduated (2000).

About Me

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position: Postdoctoral fellow; visiting professor.

ACTUAL WORKPLACE: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.

Phone: +39 095 7383073

FAx: +39 095 9895233

email: fp@francescopappalardo.net

Editorial boards, committees, and other organizations:


  1. •Member of IMMUNOGRID, European Commission Project (STREP: FP6-2004-IST-4, CONTRACT No 028069).

  2. •Member of PI2S2, Progetto per l'Implementazione e lo Sviluppo di una e-Infrastruttura in Sicilia basata sul paradigma della Grid, Italy PON project.

  3. •Member of CI&IG research group.

  4. •Citizen of Biomed town.

  5. •Editorial Board member of The Open Applied Informatics Journal.

  6. •Referee for a number of Oxford Journals, IEEE, Springer-Verlag and Elsevier journals.

  7. •Referee for a number of major conferences in Computer Science and Systems Biology.

  8. •Member of the program and scientific committee for various major conferences in the field of Computer Science and Systems Biology.

Last update: July, 19 2010

  1. •Imminent invited talk. “Computational Models: a Concrete Help to Biology and Medicine”,  January 20, 2010, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. [PDF].

  2. •I was just awarded by the ImmunoGrid Award of Excellence for year 2008. Thank you to the ImmunoGrid Board.