Prof. Donato Romano

I, Donato Romano [M.Sc. in Agriculture Science and Technologies (honors) 2014, PhD in BioRobotics (honors) 2018] am currently Associate Professor at The BioRobotics Institute, where I coordinates the Bio-Robotic Ecosystems Lab. I am mainly focusing my activities on bioinspired and biomimetic robotics, and in particular on animal-robot interaction, biohybrid systems, natural and biohybrid intelligence, ethorobotics, neuroethology. Major aims of my research are biodiversity preservation, sustainable environmental management, and life support in extreme scenarios. I received national and international recognition for his frontier research. I am co-founder of HUBILIFE srl (spin-off of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) aimed at developing and commercializing bioinspired devices to improve human daily life. I also worked as visiting scholar at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi (UAE). I have published more than 90 studies on highly-ranked international journals with impact factor. His H-index is 27 (Scopus, March 2025). In 2025, I was elected Junior Fellow (under 40) of the Italian Academy of Engineering and Technology (ITATEC), recognizing my interdisciplinary contribution at the intersection of biology, robotics, and AI. I am a Member of the Editorial Board for several international scientific journals. I am a Coordinator, PI, or partner of several national and international research projects.