Francesco Pierri received the Laurea degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Basilicata in 2003. He received the Research Doctorate degree in Environmental Engineering from University of Basilicata in 2007, with the final dissertation "Modeling, Control and Fault Diagnosis for Chemical Batch Reactors". From December 2008 to April 2022 he was Assistant Professor and from April 2022 he is Associate Professor of Automatic Control and Robotics at the School of Engineering of the University of Basilicata. In June 2024 he received the Italian National Scientific Qualification to the full professor position. He has been involved in research projects funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research, the Italian Space Agency, the European Community (under 7th Framework Programme and Horizon2020) and other public and private institutions. His research interests include: fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of nonlinear systems, process control, force control for robotic manipulators, fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control of multi-robot systems and control of aerial manipulators. From 2013 to 2021 he was Associate Editor of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Since 2021 he is Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. He is co-author of the book "Control and Monitoring of Chemical Batch Reactors" and of more than 70 papers on international journals and international conference proceedings.