Francesco Marra, PhD in chemical engineering, is an associate professor of chemical and food engineering for the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Salerno, Italy. His research focuses on the use of digital tools, based on transport phenomena modelling in a multiphysics context, as design tools for innovative food processes and products. He has authored over 100 scientific works, which have been published in international journals and books and presented at international conferences. A member of the editorial boards for the Journal of Food Engineering and the Journal of Food Process Engineering, he served as editor for a special issue, ”Virtualization of Processes in Food Engineering”, for the former.
Member of the executive committee for the Society of Food Engineering (SoFE).
Co-Chair of the International School on Modeling and Simulation in Food and Bio Processes (Italy, 2016, 2017, 2018; Serbia, 2020).