Personal Data:
Name: Francesco Belardo
Place and date of birth: 26 December 1978, Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (Me), Italy
Citizenship: Italian
Civil Status: Married with two children
Addresses:
- (home) Via Maldariti, II Traversa 13, 89131 Reggio Calabria, Italia
- (office) Department of Mathematics and Applications "R. Caccioppoli", University of Naples "Federico II", Via Cintia - Monte Sant'Angelo, I-80126 Naples, Italy
email: fbelardo@unina.it, phone: +39 081 6 75708, fax: +39 081 7662106
Educational background:
· Feb 2007 PhD in Mathematics, Ciclo XVIII (2002-2006), at the University of Messina. Thesis: "A relevant aspect in Spectral Graph Theory: Graph Perturbations and Index Variations" (in Italian).
· Jul 2001 BSc/MSc degree in Mathematics at the University of Messina. Thesis: "Some considerations on Radiative Gas-Dynamic" (in Italian).
Professional Activities:
· Oct 2015 - today: Associate Professor of Geometry at Department of Mathematics and Applications "R. Caccioppoli", University of Naples "Federico II".
· Jun 2014 - Sep 2015: Visiting Associate Professor at FAMNIT - Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Primorska.
· Oct 2012 - Sep 2013: Research Fellow in Mathematics at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of University of Messina.
· Jul 2010 - Jul 2011: Research Fellow in Mathematics at Department of Mathematics of University of Messina.
· Jul 2008 - Jul 2010: Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mathematics at Department of Mathematics of University of Messina.
Research Activity:
The research activity is oriented to Combinatorics and especially to Spectral Graph Theory and Combinatorial matrix Theory. Author of more than 70 research papers (Scopus) on the following topics:
· Spectral Graph Theory;
· Combinatorial Matrix Theory;
· Topological indices in Graph Theory;
· Applications of Spectral Graph Theory.
Editorial Activity:
· Section Editor for Graph Theory of the journal "FILOMAT" (Serbia), ISSN: 2406-0933, from 2013 to 2018.
· Member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Communications in Combinatorics and Optimization" (Islamic Republic of Iran), ISSN: 2538-2136, since 2015.
· Member of the Editorial Board of the journal "The Art of Discrete and Applied Mathematics" (Slovenia) ISSN: 2590-9770, since 2018.
· Member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Discrete Mathematics Letters" (Pakistan) ISSN: 2664-2557, since 2018.
· Member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Ars Mathematica Contemporanea" (Slovenia), ISSN: 1855-3966, since 2020.
· Associate Editor of the journal "The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra" (U.S.A.), ISSN: 1081-3810, since 2020.
Guest Editor:
· Volume 11 no. 3 (2022), Transactions on Combinatorics, ISSN: 2251-8657, "Workshop on Graphs, Topology and Topological Groups - WGTTG2021" proceedings.
· Volume 40 no. 2 (2020), Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory, ISSN: 1234-3099, devoted to the career and memory of Slobodan K. Simic.
· Volume 1 no. 2 (2018), The Art of Discrete and Applied Mathematics, ISSN: 2590-9770, "Hypergraphs, Graphs and Designs - HyGraDe 2017" proceedings.
· Volume 96 S2 (2018), Atti Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, ISSN: 1825-1242, "Hypergraphs, Graphs and Designs - HyGraDe 2017" proceedings.
Workshop and Congress Committees:
· "13th Serbian Mathematical Congress", Vrnjacka Banja, May 22–25, 2014, member of the International Scientific Committee.
· "Spectra of graphs and applications 2016", Belgrade (Serbia) May 18-–20, 2016, member of the Scientific Committee.
· "The 13th International Conference on Finite Fields and their Applications - Fq13", Gaeta (Italy) June 4–10, 2017, member of the Organizing Committee.
· "Hypergraphs, Graphs and Designs - HyGraDe 2017", Sant’Alessio S. (Italy) June 20–24, 2017, Chair of the Organizing Committee.
· "Workshop on Algebraic Graph Theory and Complex Networks 2018 - WAGTCN 2018", Naples (Italy), September 13–14, 2018, Chair of the Organizing Committee.
· "International Conference on Recent Achievements in Mathematical Science", Yazd (Iran), January 14–18, 2019, member of the Scientific Committee.
· "9th Slovenian Conference on Graph Theory - Bled 2019", Bled (Slovenia) June 23–30, 2019, Organizer of the symposium “Spectral Graph Theory”.
· "Workshop on Graphs, Topology and Topological Groups", Co-organizer (with F.G. Russo), Cape Town (South Africa) - online Zoom platform, March 10, 2021.
· "8th European Congress of Mathematics - 8ECM", Co-Organizer (con C. Dalfó) of the symposium "Spectral Graph Theory" (MS-ID46), Portorose (Slovenia) June 20 - 26, 2021.
Plenary and Invited Talks:
· "Spectral Theory of Gain Graphs", (online) invited talk at Research Workshop on Spectral Graph Theory, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo - P.R. China, May 30, 2021.
· "Spectral Theory of Signed Graphs and beyond", invited Talk at Combinatorics and Graph Theory Day, University of Malta, Malta, February 03, 2020.
· "Subdivision and Line graph of loopless weighted graphs", 22nd Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society - ILAS 2019, Invited Talk at the Symposium on Spectral Graph Theory, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, July 08-12, 2019.
· "Recent developments on the spectral determination of signed graphs", Invited Talk at 8th PhD Summer School in Discrete Mathematics, Rogla - Slovenia, July 01-07, 2018.
· "Connected graphs of fixed order and size with extremal spectral radius", Plenary Talk at Combinatorics 2018, Arco - Italy, June 03-09, 2018.
· "Spectral Determination of Signed Graphs", Plenary Talk at 10th Conference on Graph Theory and Algebraic Combinatorics - GTACC10, Yazd - Iran, January 17-18, 2018.
· "Spectral Theory of Signed Graphs", Plenary talk at the Conference on Computational Algebra and Computational Number Theory - CACNA 2014, Kashan - Iran, December 17-19, 2014.
· "Algebraic Frustration of signed graphs", 13th Serbian Mathematical Congress, Invited talk at the Section Field 1 (Set theory, Topology, Logic, Algebra, Discrete Mathematics, Number Theory), Vrnjacka Banja - Serbia, May 22-25, 2014.
Research Projects:
· Corresponding/Principal Investigator of "Spectral Graph Theory with Applications to Computer Science and Chemistry", University of Naples, 11/2016 - 03/2019.
· Italian Coordinator in the bilateral mobility project Italy/South Africa Joint Research Programme (ISARP) 2018 "Algebraic Graph Theory and Complex Networks", 01/2018 - 12/2021.
Scientific Affiliations:
- Internationa Linear Algebra Society - ILAS, since 2020.
- Slovenian Discrete and Applied Mathematics Society, since 2018.
- European Mathematical Society, since 2020.
- Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica, Gruppo Nazionale per le Strutture Algebriche, Geometriche e le loro Applicazioni, since 2004.