Matteo Pennisi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Catania, working within the Perceive Lab at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering (DIEEI). He holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and is actively engaged in national and international research collaborations. His research interests primarily include Federated Learning, Generative Models, and Continual Learning, with a particular focus on developing privacy-preserving and bio-inspired AI systems. More recently, his work has also expanded to Explainable AI and Federated Unlearning, with the goal of enhancing transparency and user control in decentralized learning environments.