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xvi About the editors

Domenico Pirozzi is Professor of Biochemical
Engineering Principles at the University Federico II
of Naples and member of the Interdepartmental
Center for Environmental Research (C.I.R.AM).
He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering
with a specialization in Biochemical Engineering at
the University Federico II and subsequently spent
18 months at University of Strathclyde (Glasgow,
United Kingdom) within the TMR Program. His
primary research interests include enzymatic reactors, biofuel production
from wastes, and bioremediation of polluted waters. He has been involved
in several research projects and consultant for several companies and is
author of about 100 papers in ISI indexed journals and of several book
chapters. He has a long experience of teaching Biochemical Engineering
principles, biochemical reactors, transport phenomena at the University
Federico II of Naples and has tutored several graduate and PhD theses.
He has also taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the Universidad
National del Litoral (Santa Fe, Argentina) and the Tsing-Hua University
(Bejing, China) as visiting Professor.

Filomena Sannino holds PhD in Agricultural
Chemistry from the University of Naples Federico
II, Italy. Her primary research interests include bio-
remediation, heterogeneous catalysis, bioenergy,
and valorization of agricultural biomasses. She is the
founding partner of Spin-Off GreenAmbioTech s.r.
l. She is the author of the patent “Process for pro-
ducing triacetylhydroxytyrosol from olive oil mill
waste waters for use as stabilized antioxidant; De Martino A., Sannino F.,
Manna C., Gianfreda L., Capasso R. PCT/IT2005/000781.”
She is a member of The Interdepartmental Research Centre on
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) for the Environment, Agroo-food
and New Materials (CERMANU) of the University of Naples
Federico II.
She is a member of Technical Scientific Committee for the “Food
Security and New Technologies” Area, partnership between the
Interdepartmental Research Centre “Laboratory of Urban and Regional
Planning” (LUPT) of University of Naples “Federico II” and European
Parliament.