**About the Editors**

#### **Lorenzo Antonio Picos Corrales**

Lorenzo Antonio Picos Corrales is a Research Professor at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS, since 2012), Mexico, with scientific interests focused on synthesis and characterization of polymers for drug delivery systems and water treatment. He studied Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Chemical-Biological Sciences-UAS. Master in Chemistry by the Technological Institute of Tijuana (IT-Tijuana), Mexico; his work obtained the 2008 Best Master's Thesis Award from the National Technological System. In 2012, he got his Ph.D. in Chemistry (Polymer Science) at the IT-Tijuana, Mexico, obtaining a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service, 2010) scholarship for the "Sandwich PhD Model" at the Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany. He has also received ¨ research training at the Leibniz-Institut fur Polymerforschung (IPF) Dresden, Germany, and at the ¨ Autonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico. At present, Lorenzo Picos is a full-time Professor at the Faculty of Engineering Culiacan-UAS in the Environmental Laboratory, and Lecturer ´ in the Department of Civil Engineering; member of the Basic Academic Nucleus of the Postgraduate Program in Biological Sciences at the Faculty of Biology-UAS. Additionally, he is member of the National System of Researchers from Mexico. He is a Special Guest Editor of the journal *Polymers* and Assistant Editor of the journal *Hybrid Advances*, and has also contributed as a reviewer to more than 15 different journals.

#### **Angel Licea-Claverie**

Angel Licea-Claverie is a full-time Professor at the Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana, Mexico, ´ which is part of the Tecnologico Nacional de M ´ exico. He has 20 years of experience in the ´ study of temperature and pH sensitive polymers and 14 years of experience on controlled radical polymerization techniques. His research group have studied the controlled release of anti-inflammatory and anticancer drugs from sensitive micelles, polymersomes and nanogels developed. He is member of the American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry, and of the Polymer Society of Mexico, for which he served as National President 2015–2017.

## **Gr ´egorio Crini**

Gregorio Crini is an environmental polymer scientist and research director at the Universit ´ e de ´ Franche-Comte, Chrono-environnement, Besanc¸on, France. He received his Ph.D. degree in organic ´ and macromolecular chemistry from the Universite de Lille in 1995 under supervision of Professor ´ Michel Morcellet. He then spent 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the G. Ronzoni Institute for Chemical and Biochemical Research in Milan, Italy, working with Research Director Giangiacomo Torri and Professor Benito Casu on the characterization of polysaccharide-based hydrogels by NMR techniques. In 1997, he joined the Universite de Franche-Comt ´ e where he set up a research group ´ working on the use of oligosaccharides (dextrins, cyclodextrins) and polysaccharides (starch, chitin, chitosan, cellulose) in industrial applications. In 2000, he completed his authorization to supervise research activities. His current interests focus on the design of new functional macromolecular networks and the environmental aspects of oligosaccharide, polysaccharide, and natural fibre (hemp, flax) chemistry for applied research. Gregorio CRINI has published more than 215 papers, a patent, ´ and 17 books. He is a highly cited researcher (h-index of 45, more than 17,100 citations) and since 2021, he has been listed as one of the world's most cited researchers by the American university Stanford. Gregorio CRINI has also conducted consulting projects for many companies. ´
