Professor Raúl Muñoz obtained his degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Valladolid (UVa, Spain) in 2001, and completed his Doctoral Thesis at the Dept. of Biotechnology of Lund University in 2005. He joined the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology at UVa in Nov 2005 as a postdoctoral researchers. He has carried out research stays at Nanyang Technology University (3 months),  UNSW (3 months), UAM-Cuajimalpa  (10 months),  Universidad de la Frontera (3 months), and University of Texas at Austin (1 month). Today, Raúl Muñoz is Full Professor at UVa and senior researcher at the Institute of Sustainable Processes. 

Over the past 10 years, Raúl Muñoz has published 247 JCR publications and 31 international book chapters. The novelty of his work has been awarded with the invitation to 30 keynote and plenary talks in prestigious international conferences. The total number and budget of competitive R&D projects as PI accounted for 26 and < 8 M€, respectively, in the past 10 years. Raúl is currently P.I of five Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects, 5 Marie Curie IF grants and five national R&D projects. On the other hand, the applicant has actively collaborated with the industrial sector and public administrations at national and international level, leading as PI 43 R&D contracts (>3 M€) in the past 10 years. Raúl has supervised 26 postdoctoral researchers and 20 PhD theses over the past 10 years.

Prof. Enas M. Nashef has been a professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at Khalifa University (KU), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, since 2014. Before joining KU, he worked at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 2004 to 2014 as an assistant professor after obtaining his PhD from the University of South Carolina/USA in 2004. He was promoted to Associate Professor and professor in 2011 and 2019, respectively.

He is very active in research related to green engineering and sustainability and has established collaborations with several universities. He has co-authored more than 180 peer-reviewed journal publications. His work has been cited by more than 11000 times.

In addition, he received nine patents from US and EU patent offices. He has also been a recipient of several prestigious awards, including the King Abdullah Award for Best Invention in 2013.

For nearly a two decade Karine Seaudeau-Pirouley has served as the International and Industrial Relationship Manager within Innovation Fluides Supercritiques, located in Valence, France. She possesses extensive expertise in project management and technology transfer from research to industry, where her primary focus includes the implementation of supercritical and subcritical fluid technologies, plant extraction, food ingredients, nutraceuticals, cosmetics, and wastewater treatment.

Currently, Karine is engaged in various multidisciplinary projects and continues to assist companies in testing supercritical processes in their R&D initiatives. She is a member of core group of International Society for the advancement of supercritical fluids (ISASF). She also observes a growing public interest in science, which bodes well for the future sustainable development of society.

Giorgio Vilardi is tenure-track professor of Chemical Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome from 2022. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering (Doctor Europaeus) in 2019. He got the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in 2023.

Author of more than 70 scientific contributions with a Hirsch index of 36 in the field of thermo-chemical valorisation of solid waste (gasification/pyrolysis technologies), decarbonisation of hard-to-abate sectors (mainly iron making, steelmaking and cement, by means of CCS/CCU and alternative fuel use), process intensification in the CC, metals extractions and production of nanofluids, metallic iron and iron oxide nanoparticles.

Giorgio ViIardi is ranked among the World's Top 2% Scientists (Elsevier-World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists-Stanford University). He is awarded with the Minerva Scientific Research Prize in 2021. Author of 5 industrial patents. He is also a founding partner of the innovative StartUp of Sapienza, GEEG S.r.l. and Director of the DRACONS research group (DecaRbonisAtion and CO₂ NanoSequestration).

Evelina Colacino, is Associate Professor of Organic and Green Chemistry at the University of Montpellier (France). She promotes sustainability in Higher Education by integrating green chemistry and mechanochemistry at undergraduate level in organic chemistry courses, teaching laboratories and across the sub-disciplines of chemistry. Her main research activities concern the development of eco-friendly mechanochemical processes for the preparation of value-added compounds for the industry, mainly focusing on Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients.  She is a member of the International Mechanochemical Association (IMA) and the Advisory Board of the Green Chemistry Commitment (GCC), she chaired the European Programme COST Action CA18112 (MechSustInd, 2019-2023) ‘Mechanochemistry for Sustainable Industry and she currently coordinates the Horizon Europe Project IMPACTIVE (2022-2026) for Innovative Mechanochemical Processes to synthesize green ACTIVE pharmaceutical ingredients).

Professor Leonarda Francesca Liotta is Director of Research in Chemistry and Deputy Director of Palermo branch of the Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Materials (ISMN)-CNR, Italy. She is also member of the Scientific Board of the CNR Department of Chemical Sciences and Materials Technologies, DSCTM-CNR. She got National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in Industrial Chemistry and as well in Chemical Sciences and Inorganic Systems.
Her main interests are in the field of heterogeneous catalysis (supported noble metals, transition metal oxides and inorganic perovskites) and materials science applied to Environmental Remediation (NO SCR, VOCs and soot oxidation) and Clean Energy production/storage (dry/steam reforming, CO₂ methanation, SOFCs, SOECs, batteries).
She is Co-author of 250 articles in peer-reviewed internal journals, 8 book chapters, 1 PCT Int. Appl. WO patent and she contributed to more the 400 International and National Conferences and informative works. H index: 52 (Scopus 2024).
Professor Leonarda Francesca Liotta was Mentioned in a list of the top 2% most cited scientists in the world, published by Stanford University.
She is member of the International Association of Catalysis Societies (IACS), member of the MC of COST Action 17136 “Indoor Air Pollution network” and of the MC of COST Action 18224 GREENERING. Member of the Italian Chemical Society, in the Industrial Chemistry Group and Interdivisional Catalysis Group. She is also the Scientific board member of the Italian ENERCHEM “Interdivisional Group of Chemistry for Renewable Energy” (2022-2024) and she was in the Scientific Board of the Interdivisional Catalysis Group (2015-2017) (2018-2020).
Visiting researcher at the University of Lyon, Lille, Dunkirk, Sorbonne Paris, Valencia, Sevilla, Budapest, Sofia, Tosmk State University, Magurele.

Professor David Fernendez Rivas is working at the University Twente, Netherland, in the Mesoscale Chemical Systems Group. His research interests and expertise are in the areas of microfluidics, transdermal drug delivery alternatives, solar-to-fuel cells, process intensification, acoustic cavitation and sonochemistry.
Professor David Fernendez Rivas was granted several times by the European Research Council. In 2019, he obtained the European Research Council Starting (ERC) Grant for his project BuBble Gun (https://bubble-gun.eu/), aimed at penetrating microjets in soft substrates. After he was was awarded by the ERC with 3 more grants - Proof of Concept Grants.
He wrote the book Empathic Entrepreneurial Engineering, and he is inventor of a patent commercialized by the spin-off BuBclean (2013) of which he is cofounder. He also founded FlowBeams, a spin-off from the University of Twente (2021) to valorize his needle-free injection research and subsequent patents on microfluidic systems. In 2024, His FlowBeams team received the Transition grant from the European Innovation Council EIC.
Professor David Fernendez Rivas is awarded by Young Sonochemist Award: Japan Society of Sonochemistry (JSS, 2011), Pieter Langerhuizen Lambertuszoon Fonds prize (2016) awarded by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW), and Engineer of the Year 2021, and the Prince Friso Award by the Royal Dutch Institute of Engineers (KIVI).
He was co-chair of the COST Action Greenering and he also serves in the editorial board of several journals, such as Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, and Biomicrofluidics.
He is research affiliate at the Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (2017) and Visiting Professor at the Dermatology Department, Erasmus MC Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.