**About the Special Issue Editors**

**Giuseppe Titomanlio** graduated in chemical engineering at University of Naples. Soon after graduation, he moved to the University of Palermo, first as an assistant professor, then as an associate professor after, and since 1986 as full professor of transport phenomena. In 1991, he moved to the University of Salerno. From 2004 to 2010, there he was Dean of Chemical Engineering. From 2001 to 2004, he was President of GRICU (the Italian association of university researchers in chemical engineering areas). His research has focused on the properties and processing of polymers. In particular, his research includes rheology and properties of solid polymers, and melts, analysis, and simulation of phenomena related to polymer processing and, in particular, to injection molding, problems of general interest to the processing of polymeric materials such as the crystallization kinetics at high cooling rates and high-pressure and flow-induced crystallization. He also focuses on the use of polymers for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications. The results of these activities resulted in about 200 papers published in international scientific journals and numerous communications at international conferences. He is often invited as a lecturer at conferences on polymer processing and properties all around the world. Over the years, Prof. Titomanlio has coordinated research units in several research projects of local, national, and European relevance. He is active in the Polymer Processing Society (PPS), of which he was a member from the very beginning of the Society. He was organizer and chairman of the Regional Conference of the PPS held in Palermo in September 1991 and of the 24th International Conference of the PPS, held in Salerno in June 2008; he was President of the PPS for the biennium 2012–2014.

**Vito Speranza** was born in Avellino in 1965. In 1992, he graduated in electronical engineering at the University of Salerno defending a thesis on optimal interpolation of electromagnetic fields over a cylinder. He received a Ph.D. degree in April 1999 defending a thesis entitled "Analysis and Simulation of the Injection Molding Process". From 1999 to 2002, he was a research fellow at the University of Salerno, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, in modeling and simulation of processing of polymeric materials. As of September 2000, he was teaching assistant for various courses (Transport Phenomena, Principles of Chemical Engineering, and Fluid Dynamics) in Chemical Engineering. Since March 2002, he has been research engineer in the technical staff at the University of Salerno, Dept. of Industrial Engineering (former Dept. of Chemical Engineering). His main research interests focus on analysis and simulation of injection molding of thermoplastics, structure development in polymer processing, and morphology and polymer surface analysis. He has been involved in several national and international research programs and in several collaborations with companies and research centers. He is author of one patent, 70 publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals, 2 book chapters, and about 80 publications of proceedings at international conferences.
