Enrico Drioli is Full Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Calabria (Italy) and Director of the Institute of Membrane Technology (ITM) of CNR. He is the Honorary President of the European Membrane Society. His main research activities are in the field of Membrane Science and Technology. He is author of more than 460 scientific papers and 16 patents and Member of the Advisory Board of several internationally renowned journals.

Lidietta Giorno is researcher at the Institute on Membrane Technology, ITM-CNR, Italy. Her research experiences include membrane bioengineering, catalytic membranes and biocatalytic membrane reactors, integrated membrane systems for bioseparations and bioconversions, downstream processing based on molecular separation, membrane chirotechnology, membrane emulsifier. She is co-author of two books and some 50 peer reviewed papers. She is currently the President of the European Membrane Society.