Bilotta was born in 1958[4] in Catanzaro, in the Calabria region of Italy.[5] She is employed as a professor of general psychology at the University of Calabria,[6] where she also coordinates a course on complex systems, and co-directs a research group on evolutionary systems.[5] Before joining the University of Calabria as a researcher and then professor, she was an instructor at the Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro.[7]
With Pietro Pantano, she is the author of the books A Gallery of Chua Attractors (World Scientific, 2008)[3] and Cellular Automata and Complex Systems: Methods for Modeling Biological Phenomena (IGI Global, 2010).