Honored attendees

Francesco Profumo (M'88-SM'90) was born in Savona, Italy, in 1953. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 1977. Since 1978 to 1984, he worked as Senior Engineer for the R&D Ansaldo Group in Genova (Italy). In 1984 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Politecnico di Torino, where he was Associate Professor till 1995. He is Professor of Electrical Machines and Drives at Politecnico di Torino and Adjunct Professor at University of Bologna. Since September 2003, Dr. Profumo was the Dean of the Engineering Faculty at the Politecnico di Torino and since October 2005 he is the Rector of the Politecnico di Torino. Since August 2011 he has been appointed as President of CNR (National Research Council), from November 16 Prof.