Francesco MARRA | Curriculum

Francesco Marra (born in Cosenza - Italy, the 21st of April 1974) is an associate professor of transport phenomena at Department of Industrial Engineering of University of Salerno (Italy) since 2005. Graduated in Chemical Engineering, in 1999, at University of Calabria (Italy), he completed the Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at University of Salerno (Italy) in 2003.
At present he is engaged in research at the Department of Industrial Engineering (DIIn), in the section of Chemical and Food Engineering. He has been teaching Transport Phenomena in Food Processes (MSc programme in Food Engineering), Thermodynamics of Chemical Engineering, and Principles of Chemical Engineering (BSc programme in Chemical Engineering) and Principles of Chemical and Environmental Engineering (BSc programme in Environmental Engineering). He is also member of the committee of Ph.D. programme of Industrial Engineering.
Visiting scientist at University College Dublin (Ireland) in 2004; research fellow University of California, in Davis, CA, USA, in 2008 and 2010. Erasmus lecturer in different European Universities. Visiting at NWA&F University, in Yangling, China, in 2015 and 2018.
He is an expert of digital and virtual systems for food processing, modeling of transport phenomena in multi-physics context, engineering of innovative prototypes for food processing. Recently he is also involved in developing in-vitro systems for the understanding of human digestion.
Member of the editorial boards of Journal of Food Engineering and Journal of Food Process Engineering; guest editor of a special issue of Journal of Food Engineering dedicated to "Virtualization of Processes in Food Engineering" (volume 176 - 2016), guest curator of a special section of the Journal of Food Engineering (volume 71 issue 3 - 2005) devoted to mathematical modeling in food process engineering, he authored over 70 scientific papers published in refereed international journals, in books and in international conferences.
He is responsible for research activity financed with European funds, national (Italian) public funds as well as with private funds through specific research agreements entered into between the DICA and DIIn with Italian and multinational companies.
Already a professional member of IFT (Institute of Food Technologists, Food Engineering Division, Chicago, IL, USA) , of ISFE (International Society of Food Engineering , Pullman, WA, USA), which is the Special Interest Group dedicated to Food Engineering of the International Union of Food Science & Technology (IUFoST) and of EHEDG (The European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group, Frankfurt, Germany), he serves now the Society of Food Engineering (SoFE, USA), having been elected as member of the executive committee; and ISEKI Food Association (Europe), coordinating a Special Interest Group dedicated to Virtualization in Food Engineering.
He is co-founder and co-chairing of the first International School on Modeling and Simulation of Food and Bio Processes, running yearly since 2016.