The scientific activity of Francesco Amato has developed in the fields of systems and control theory, of computational biology and of the modeling and control of biomedical systems. He has published about 280 papers in international Journals and conference proceedings, and three monographies, two with Springer Verlag and one with Wiley. He serves as a reviewer for the most important journals in the field of Bioengineering and Automatic Control, and has revised many research projects both at the national and at the international level.