**About the Editor**

**Gabriele Di Giacomo** has been a Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of L'Aquila, Italy, since the 1990s. His main research interests include seawater desalination, the theoretical and experimental study of water and carbon dioxide applications under supercritical conditions, and the exploitation of production surpluses, by-products, and waste from agro-industrial activities. He was a member of the editorial board of Desalination for nearly two decades and currently sits on the editorial boards of *Food and Bioprocess Technology (FABT)* and Section C of *Energies*.
