Enrico Drioli is emeritus professor at the School of Engineering, University of Calabria, Italy; WCU distinguished visiting professor, Hanyang University, Seoul Korea, since 2010; and distinguished adjunct professor at the Center of Excellence in Desalination Technology (CEDT), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, since 2012. He is a member of many international societies, scientific committees, editorial boards, and international advisory boards and the founding director of the Institute on Membrane Technology, National Research Council (IMT-CNR), Italy. Currently, he is chairman of the Section on Membrane Engineering, European Federation of Chemical Engineering; coordinator of the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus Doctorate in Membrane Engineering (EU-EUDIME), Doctorate School on Membrane Engineering; and honorary president of the European Membrane Society (EMS) since 1999. He has also been the coordinator of several international research projects. Dr. Drioli has received many awards, including the Richard Maling Barrer Prize of the EMS, the Academician Semenov Medal of Russian Academy of Engineering Science, and the MIAC International Award, for his contributions in the field of membrane science and technology. He is the author of more than 800 scientific papers and 28 books on membrane science and technology and owns 22 patents. His research activities focus on membrane science and engineering, membranes in artificial organs, integrated membrane processes, membrane preparation and transport phenomena in membranes, membrane distillation and membrane contactors, and catalytic membrane and catalytic membrane reactors.
Lidietta Giorno is director of the ITM-CNR since 2009. She is an expert on membrane science and technology and one of the female scientists of the highest scientific profile who are engaged in the development of the country. She received the 2011 Guido Dorso Award for research, sponsored by the Italian Senate and the University of Naples Federico II, and the Sapio Red Carpet Award in 2016. She has been president of the EMS council and editor of the EMS membrane newsletter. She is an honorary member of the EMS since 2014. Dr. Giorno is a coauthor of 8 books and over 110 peer-reviewed scientific papers and coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Membranes (2016), Springer.
Annarosa Gugliuzza is a research scientist at the ITM-CNR since 2001. She worked at the University of Ann Arbor, MI, USA, and POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country, Spain. She has a strong background in chemistry and materials science and technology and is an expert in the design of nanostructured membranes with high levels of organization, structure, chemistry, and dynamics, along with associated properties, including sensing, wetting, self-cleaning, separation, transport, and catalysis. She is a member of PhD school committees, editorial boards, and research proposal reviewer boards. She is the editor of two books, one of which has been translated into Chinese, a guest editor of some special issues, and a coauthor of more than 70 contributions, including papers and editorials in peer-reviewed international journals, chapters and prefaces in books, and entries in the Encyclopedia of Membranes.
