Eva Milella, graduated in chemistry, began her professional career as researcher in the field of advanced materials. President of IMAST, the technological district on Polymeric and Composite Materials, and of the Italian Association of Technological Districts (ADiTe), she is a Technology Director at the Italian National Research Council. Responsible for numerous public-private industrial research projects, she has contributed to the drafting and implementation of strategic plans for regional industrial development covering several positions in public and private organizations. She is the author of about seventy scientific papers, two monographs, a patent. She is a lecturer on industrial research, management and exploitation of intellectual property. Since the nineties she is engaged on technology transfer, creation of spin-offs and enterprise networks, industrial research projects, management of advanced research facilities, fund raising activities. She has been President of the Apulia Regional Agency for Technology and Innovation and is a member of ASPEN working groups and of Patent Commission of the Polytechnic of Bari.

technology transfer, creation of spin-offs and enterprise networks

Lidietta Giorno is serving as the Director of the Institute on Membrane Technology of the National Research Council of Italy, ITM-CNR, since 2009. She is expert in membrane science and membrane bioengineering with particular focus on nanostructured biohybrid membranes, biocatalytic membrane reactors, membrane emulsification, integrated membrane processes for water, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and biorefinery. She awarded The International Awards "Guido Dorso" for Research in 2011, sponsored by the Italian Senate and the University of Naples Federico II. She awarded the Sapio Red Carpet Award in 2016 among the female scientists of highest scientific profile who are engaged for the development of the Country. Lidietta Giorno is co-author of 13 books, over 200 peer reviewed papers, and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Membranes, Springer, 2016. She has served on the European Membrane Society Council as the President of the EMS Council and the Editor of the EMS Membrane Newsletter. She is Honorary Member of the European Membrane Society since 2014.

nanostructured biohybrid membranes, biocatalytic membrane reactors, membrane emulsification, integrated membrane processes for water, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and biorefinery

Patrizia Livreri PhD, Professor of Electronics at the Engineering School of the University of Palermo, received her "Laurea degree" with honours in 1986. She passed the qualifying examination of the engineering profession in 1987. As an expert in designing microwave systems she got an experience at FACE RC (Pomezia - Rm) from 9/1/1986 to 1/31/1987. As a designer in microwave circuits she was enrolled at Elettronica S.p.a. (Rome) from 2/2/1987 to 08/31/1988. She received her Ph.D. in electronic engineering and she got a research position at CNR (National Institute for Research) from 11/1/1991 to 11/30/1992. Since 4/2/1995, she is Assistant Professor serving the Faculty of Engineering of University of Palermo. Since 1986 to 1998 her research was oriented to microwave electronics and circuits and also design of low noise amplifiers (LNA). Since 1999, her research was devoted to power electronics for microprocessor systems. Since 2005, she is the scientific director of the “Laboratory of nanotechnologies and nanomaterials for Cultural Heritage– BCNANOLAB” at the University of Palermo, aimed to the experimentaion of nanotechnologies and nanomaterials. She is actually teaching courses of Microwave Measurements and Instrumentation at the DEIM and of Electronics at DICGIM at the University of Palermo. She is also a member of the Doctoral degree Professors consultancy and served also as a tutor of several Ph.D. students. Under European FP6 program she served as evaluators. Creator, Project Leader of the High-Technology District for Cultural Heritage. She is author of more than 60 works published on specialised magazines, books chapters, national and international conferences documents. She is involved in several international research projects on nanotechnologies. She serves as coordinator of the second level Master’s degree in “Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials for Cultural Heritage” and of the Research Project “Researcher on Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials”. She is also associated at the CNR . She was honored with many awards recognizing her research activities. She serves as consultant of the “Assessorato Regionale alle Attività Produttive della Sicilia” for the research project financied with european program funds.

microwave electronics and circuits, design of low noise amplifiers

André Preumont received his MSc in Aeronautics from the university of Liege (Belgium) in 1973 and his PhD in Applied Sciences in 1981. He spent 10 years in the nuclear industry before moving in academia. He has been a professor of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) since 1987, full professor and director of the Active Structures Laboratory from 1991 to 2016, then Emeritus. His research interests are in the field of SMART structures and precision engineering, with a particular attention to space systems. He is the author of 7 books. He is a member of the Belgian Royal Academy and of the French Académie de l’Air et de l’Espace (AAE). He was the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2011 (Darmstadt, Germany). He was a visiting professor at Virginia Tech (USA), UT Compiègne and INSA Lyon (France), and Politecnico di Milano (Italy). He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

SMART structures and precision engineering