**Andrea Lazzeri**

Prof. Andrea Lazzeri started his career with a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1982. He obtained his PhD in Advanced Materials at the University of Cranfield in the UK in 1991. Starting in February 1999, he carried out teaching and research activities as a visiting scientist at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, where he worked with Professors A.S. Argon, R. Cohen and M. Boyce. In 2022, he was appointed as an Associate Professor in the sector of Materials Science and Technology (ING-IND/22) at the University of Pisa; in 2008, he was appointed as a Full Professor at the same university, where he teaches several courses in the field of materials science and engineering, biobased polymers and composites, and plastic processing and polymer characterization.

During the last two decades, Prof. Lazzeri's major research projects have investigated the processing and mechanical properties of polymer-matrix and ceramic-matrix composites, nanostructured materials and biobased/biodegradable polymers for environmental applications. He has worked as a coordinator of four European projects: Forbioplast, Helm, NanoCathedral and Cemwave (ongoing). He has published over 190 scientific papers with around 6000 citations (H-index 41).
