Sudip Chakraborty earned a PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Calabria, Italy. He is a faculty member in the Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems Engineering, University of Calabria, Italy. His major fields of interest include membrane separation, plasmonic nanoparticles, composite materials, energy, and process intensification. He has an h-index of 42 and has published more than 130 research publications in international journals, books, and conference proceedings.Stefano Curcio is the Director of the Department of Computer Engineering, Modeling, Electronics and Systems and a full Professor at the University of Calabria. He is a visiting researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva. He has written more than 75 papers that have been published in international peer-reviewed scientific journals, ten book chapters, one patent, and more than 120 presentations in international conferences and published in conference proceedings.