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Gilles Mailhot is CNRS research director at the Institute of Chemistry in Clermont-Ferrand (France), a laboratory of the University of Clermont Auvergne (UCA). He is also associate researcher at the Observatory of Physics of the Globe in Clermont-Ferrand (OPGC), UMS UCA-CNRS. His main research interests focus on water chemistry and photochemistry applied to environmental chemistry, atmospheric chemistry and advanced oxidation processes for water treatment. He is co-author of more than 180 original papers in international peer-reviewed journals (Hindex 47 and more than 7250 citations). During his career, he spent one year at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), three months at the University of Fudan in Shanghai and four months at the University of Wuhan, Wuhan (China) as a researcher and visiting professor. He was Director of the Federation of Environmental Research labelled by the Ministry of Research and Higher Education, CNRS and INRAE. This highly multidisciplinary federation brings together more than 450 people belonging to 18 research units at the Clermont-Ferrand site. From 2016 to 2019, I was also president of the ANR (Research national Agency in France) selection committee for theoretical chemistry, analytical chemistry and methodology.

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Giancarlo Cravotto became a researcher at the Department of Drug Science and Technology (University of Turin), after four years of experience in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. His research activity in the domain of green organic synthesis, extraction and processing, is documented by about 490 scientific, peer-reviewed papers (H. Index 61, 15,930 citations by WoS Publons; H. Index 59, 15,000 citations by Scopus. He has been Director of the Department of Drug Science and Technology since 2007 until October 2018, he is currently Full Professor of Organic Chemistry and vice-Director. He is Editor-in-Chief of Processes (MDPI, Basel); Associate Editor of Frontiers in Chemical Engineering and Editor or Editorial board member of several journals. Prof. Cravotto has been the President of the European Society of Sonochemistry (ESS) from 2012 to 2018. He is member of the Conseil Scientifique de l’UMR ICSM (Marcoule, France), has been visiting scientist at the World-Class Research Center, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Russia. He is Scientific board member of the Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL, CSIC-UAM - Spain). Scientific board member of SifNut (Italian Society of Nutraceutical Formulation). Recent award: Scientific Research Award 2018 "Organic Chemistry for the Environment, Energy and Nanosciences" by the Italian Chemical Society; International green extraction of natural products “GENP2018” Award "Innovation in Chemistry"; Kurnakov gold/silver medal 2019 (Russian Academy of Science); Gold medal “E. Paternò” 2017-2020 (Italian Chemical Society).

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Federica Menegazzo received her Ph.D. degree in Chemical Sciences at the University of Ferrara in 2003. Currently she works as Associate Professor at CATMAT research group at the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her principal scientific interests are in the field of heterogeneous catalysis with a focus on the development of innovative nanostructured catalysts and their use in industrial and sustainable chemistry. She has co-authored 4 book chapters, one International Patent and over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

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Dr. Matej Baláž is an expert in mechanochemistry using high-energy ball milling for the production of nanocrystalline materials and the processing of eggshell waste. He has published 104 peer-reviewed scientific publications in CC / IF journals (26 as the first author), 1 monograph published in Springer-Nature as a solo author, 2 chapters in foreign monographs and 1 monograph in the Slovak language. His works have been cited more than 1600 times in Web of Knowledge and Scopus and his h-index in WOS is 21 (in Scopus after subtraction of self-citations is 17). His research work has been awarded several times, e.g. he is the winner of the competitions "Young Scientist of the Academy of Sciences under 35" (2016), "Scientist of the Year 2018" in the category "Young Scientist" (2019), or finalist of ESET Science Award 2021 in the category "Exceptional young scientist" (2021).