**About the Editors**

**Corrado Piconi**, Senior Associate at the Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramics of the Italian National Research Council (ISTEC-CNR). He received his M.Sc. in biomaterials and has more than 40 years of experience with ceramic materials, especially those used in oxides for joint replacement. Since 1989, when he was involved in the New Materials Division of the Italian Authority for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), his main research interest has been devoted to zirconia ceramics with an emphasis on precursors that are suitable for the production of implantable medical devices. Previously, he acted as the R&D Project Manager in Tecnobiomedica S.p.A (Pomezia, Italy) and worked on the development of medical devices for orthopedic and cardiovascular applications, and he was then the Scientific Director of the MeLab R&D facility at GHIMAS S.p.A. (Brindisi, Italy), developing scaffolds for bone tissue engineering and dental implants using advanced ceramic composites and via the 3D laser sintering of titanium powders. From 1997 to 2017, he was a biomaterials lectrurer, Orthopedics Dept., School of Medicine, Catholic University "Sacro Cuore", Roma, Italy, and from 2006 to 2012, he was a Scientific Consultant, Dental Materials Dept., School of Dentistry, University "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italy. He is the author of more than 130 articles and book chapters have been read about 29.000 times and that have received 3,550 citations (ResearchGate, March 2022). He has been the Scientific Cordinator and the WP Leader in several national and EC-funded projects. Currently, he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Society for Ceramic Implantology (ESCI) and an active member of the Italian Society for Biomaterials (SIB), of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB), of the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine (ISCM), and of the Italian Society for Research in Orthopedics (IORS).

**Simone Sprio**, Senior Researcher M.Sc. in Physics, Ph.D. in Chemistry, and 25 years of experience in materials science, particularly in the development of ceramic materials and devices for biomedical applications. Chief Scientist for the research on Bioceramics for Regenerative Medicine at ISTEC-CNR. His main fields of investigation are biomimetic ceramic phases and 3D scaffolds with cell-instructive ability; intrinsic antibacterial biomaterials; bioactive injectable pastes and bone cements; biomorphic transformation processes by 3-D heterogeneous chemistry; and bone scaffolds as drug delivery systems. He is the author of more than 120 peer-reviewed papers (H-index: 32) and book chapters and has edited a book and various Special Issues in international journals. He is the inventor of nine funded international patents that are related to new processes, materials, and devices for regenerative medicine. He has delivered more than 100 communications at international conferences, including 25 invited lectures. He has been the Chief Scientist or WP Leader on several national and EC-funded projects. He has organized several international congresses, symposia, and workshops.He has supervised various M.Sc. and Ph.D students and young fellow researchers.
