**About the Editors**

#### **Pasquale Avino**

Pasquale Avino received his Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", and in 1997 he was appointed as Post-Doc at the University of California, Irvine (USA), with Prof. F.S. Rowland (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995) where he was interested in air pollution studies carrying out sampling in remote areas (South-East area of the Pacific Ocean) and at high altitudes (mountains and transoceanic air flights). From 1998 to 2018 he was Researcher at the ISPESL/INAIL institute and in 2018 he moved to University of Molise where he is currently Associate Professor in Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry. He is author or co-author of more than 190 peer-review papers according to the Scopus data base, he has coordinated several research projects in the environmental field (in 2022 he was recipient of a Horizon project on indoor air pollution). For his studies he received the NASA Award, the "Environment and Health" Sapio National Award and the Ecological Chemistry Medal of the Moldova Chemical Society for his contribution for the development of ecological chemistry.

#### **Massimiliano Errico**

Massimiliano Errico is Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering Biotechnology and Environmental Technology at the University of Southern Denmark. His research activity is focused on energy saving in distillation systems for biofuels production. In the specific field of distillation sequences with thermal coupling and thermal integration. He is the author of 95 publications in international journals and he joined to 5 international projects.

#### **Aristide Giuliano**

Aristide Giuliano is a researcher of the Italian Research Centre ENEA–Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Department of Energy Technologies and Renewable Sources. After achievement of PhD in Chemical Engineering at University of Salerno (Italy), he won the competition of the Italian Association of Chemical Engineering (AIDIC) as "Best PhD Thesis in Italy 2016". In June 2022, he achieved the National Scientific qualification as associate in the Italian higher education system for the disciplinary field of 09/D3—Chemical plants and technologies. He is an 'IEA Bioenergy—Task 42 Biorefining in a Circular Economy' member, he studies the process design and optimization of multi-product lignocellulosic biorefineries to identify the bio-based high-added value compounds ready for commercialization. He is the author of 36 publications in international journals and he is the inventor of 2 international patents.

#### **Hamid Salehi**

Hamid Salehi is currently a Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Science after joining the University of Greenwich as a Research Fellow with the Wolfson Centre in April 2018. He was a Research Associate for one year at the Biomass Technology Centre, of the Swedish University of Agricultural Science. His work was focused on the development of a new method for quantifying the flow properties of biomass particulate solids. Dr Salehi carries over 8 years of work/research experience in various disciplines of particulate material technology, food and chemical engineering. He is the author of more than 15 scientific peer reviewed journal papers in high impact journals.
