Antonella FerraraAntonella Ferrara is Full Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Pavia. Her research activities are focused on sliding mode control, automotive control, and robotics; she has authored or co-authored more than 300 papers on these topics. he is Associate Editor of the IEEE CSS Control Systems Magazine and of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, as well as member of the program committee of numerous international conferences. She served as Coordinator of the Pavia Research Unit in the European project PROTECTOR on automatic control of vehicles, and is Principal Investigator in the European project ITEAM on vehicle dynamics control. She is Senior Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and member of several related Technical Committees. She was chair of the IEEE CSS Women in Control Standing Committee. Read More Read Less