**Patrizia Cinelli**

Prof. Patrizia Cinelli is an Associate Professor in Fundamentals of Chemical Technologies (03/B2, CHIM/07) at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. She graduated in Chemistry in 1995 at the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Dante Gatteschi. In 1999, she obtained her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Pisa, with research focusing on biodegradable and sustainable polymers for application in agriculture under the supervision of Prof. Emo Chiellini, which was partly performed at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Peoria, IL, USA, where she spent a total of three stages (six months in duration) in 1998, 2000 and 2001. She worked as a researcher for the Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology, Florence, Italy, and for the Pisa Division at the Institute for Physical and Chemical Processes of the National Research Council (CNR), Italy. She was a visiting scientist at the University of Almeria, Spain, and at the INTEMA-CONICET, Mar del Plata, Argentina. She is a co-author of over 110 papers (Scopus H-index of 34), 12 book chapters, and 8 patents. She has participated in over 25 EC projects, including the FP5 and the current Horizon 2020. She acted as a coordinator of the BBIJU project, ECOFUNCO "ECO sustainable multiFUNctional biobased COatings with enhanced performance and end of life options", GA 837863, and a technical manager of the BBIJU project RECOVER "Development of innovative biotic symbiosis for plastic biodegradation and synthesis to solve their end of life challenges in the agriculture and food industries", GA 887648.

Prof. Patrizia Cinelli has over 25 years of research experiences in sustainable and biodegradable polymers and in biomass valorization, in particular in production; chemical, thermal and mechanical characterization; and evaluation of sustainability based on biodegradation tests and life cycle assessment.
