Carla Raffaelli is associate professor in
switching systems and telecommunication networks at the University
of Bologna, Italy. She received the M.S. and the Ph.D degrees in
electrical engineering and computer science from the University of
Bologna, Italy, in 1985 and 1990, respectively.
She achieved the National Scientific qualification as full professor in Telecommunications in March 2018.
Since 1985 she has been with the Department
of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems of the University of
Bologna, Italy, where she became a Research Associate in
1990. Her research interests include performance analysis of
telecommunication networks, switching architectures, protocols and
broadband communication. Since 1993 she participated in European
funded projects on optical packet-switched networks, the RACE-
ATMOS, the ACTS-KEOPS and the IST-DAVID projects. She was recently
active in the EU funded e-photon/One Network of Excellence and now
in its follow-up BONE. She also participated in many national
research projects on telecommunication networks. She is the author
of many technical papers on broadband switching and network
modelling and acts as a reviewer for top international conferences
and journals. She is author or co-author of more than 170
conference and journal papers indexed by Scopus, mainly in the field of optical
networking and performance evaluation. She has been part since many years of IEEE ICC and IEEE Globecom Technical Program Committee.
In 2014 she partecipated as a member to the EU COST ICT
commission for evaluation of final proposals.
She is member of the Editorial board of the Journal Photonic
Network Communications, Springer, since October 2013.
She is associate editor of the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society since 2019.
She is IEEE Senior member. She is OSA member.
She is a member of the European Technology Platform
Photonics21-WG1