Short bio:

Emilio F. Campana is the Head of the Engineering, ICT, Energy and Transport Department of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering (summa cum laude) and a PhD in Applied and Theoretical Mechanics, both granted by the University of Rome “Sapienza”. He has been researcher at the IBM European Center for Scientific and Engineering Computing, till 1991, and then joined the National Towing Tank (INSEAN), that lately (in 2010) became the Marine Technology Research Institute of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-INSEAN). Starting from 2010 he was the Head of the CNR-INSEAN, till 2017, after which he got the position of Head of the CNR Engineering, ICT, Energy and Transport Department. He has been doing research in a wide range of topics: numerical methods for naval hydrodynamics and ship design optimization, for more than 25 years, authoring and co-authoring more than 180 papers on international ISI journal and international conferences. During his research activity he has been Principal Investigator of many EDA and ONR projects (Office of Naval Research, US Navy). He is the recipient of the: - 2009: American Bureau of Shipping award for the best paper presented at the US Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) annual meeting, - 2012: Scientific Achievement Award by NATO - Research and Technology Organization; - 2013/2014: “George Weinblum Memorial Lecturer” jointly assigned, for the scientific contribution in Hydrodynamics, by the German Institut für Schiffbau (Hamburg University), the SNAME, and the Naval Studies Board of the National Research Council (USA).

My best professional achievement:

Head of the Engineering, ICT, Energy and Transport Department of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy. The Department includes 20 research institutes (about 1000 researchers) and cover the areas of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics, Systems and Communication Engineering, and Applied Mathematics.