**About the Editor**

## **Marcello Lappa**

Marcello Lappa attained a qualification to the rank of Full Professor in Italy in 2013. He joined the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Strathclyde (UK, Glasgow) in 2015. On Oct 2017 he took on the role of Director (Programme Advisor of Studies) of the MSc course in Mechanical Engineering. He is listed in the "World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists in 2021" Stanford University database in the subfield Fluids & Plasmas. Over the last 25 years, he has authored 3 international books, more than 120 publications in peer reviewed journals or as book chapters and many other conference papers. Since 2005 he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Scientific Journal "Fluid Dynamics Materials Processing". His research focuses on fluid motion and stability behavior, computational fluid dynamics, organic and inorganic materials and crystal growth, multiphase flows, solidification, high-temperature gas-dynamics, particle dynamics and microgravity science. At the University of Strathclyde, he has secured over 2 million € of external funding in a position of PI. He acts as a Reviewer for several funding bodies (EPSRC-UK, DFG-Germany, FNRS-Belgium, GIF-Israel, ANVUR-Italy, NSERC-Canada, NVSTE-Kazakhstan and European Space Agency).
