Donato Romano [M.Sc. in Agriculture Science and Technologies (honors) 2014, PhD in BioRobotics (honors) 2018] is currently Associate Professor at The BioRobotics Institute, where he coordinates the Bio-Robotic Ecosystems Lab. Romano is mainly focusing his activities on bioinspired and biomimetic robotics, and in particular on animal-robot interaction, biohybrid systems, natural and biohybrid intelligence, ethorobotics, neuroethology. Major aims of his research are biological systems complexity investigation, emergent phenomena, biodiversity preservation, sustainable environmental management, life support in extreme scenarios. He received national and international recognition for his frontier research. He is co-founder of HUBILIFE srl (spin-off of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) aimed at developing and commercializing bioinspired devices to improve human daily life. He also worked as visiting scholar at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi (UAE). Romano has published more than 100 studies on highly-ranked international journals with impact factor. His H-index is 27 (Scopus, March 2025). Romano is Member of the Editorial Board for several international scientific journals. He is Coordinator, PI, or partner of several national and international research projects.