**About the Editors**

**Stefano Farris** earned his Ph.D. degree in Food and Microbial Biotechnology in 2007. From 2007 to 2008, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers University (NJ) with the Food Packaging laboratory led by Prof. K. Yam, where he worked on the use of hydrocolloids as biopolymer coatings. In 2011, he joined Prof. M. Hedenqvist's group at KTH in the Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, where he worked on the development of hybrid materials. At present, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DeFENS) of the University of Milan, where he coordinates a team of approximately 10 people. His research activities mainly focus on the design and development of new high-performance packaging materials using different approaches such as soft chemistry and nanotechnology. In addition, he is actively involved in the exploitation of green strategies (e.g., enzymatic routes for waste recovery) for the generation of new materials. He is the author of more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 5 international patents, and several book chapters.

**Jari Vartiainen** is the Senior Scientist witht he VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
