Innovative Membrane Operations in Process Engineering for a Process Intensification Strategy

Enrico Drioli is Emeritus Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Calabria. Founding Director of the Institute on Membrane Technology, CNR,Italy. Since 2012 Distinguished Adjunct Professor, CEDT King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah Saudi Arabia; since 2010 WCU Distinguish Visiting Professor, at the Hanyang University, Seoul Korea; His research activities focus on Membrane Science and Engineering, Membranes in Artificial Organs, Integrated Membrane Processes, Membrane Preparation and Transport Phenomena in Membranes, Membrane Distillation and Membrane Contactors, and Catalytic Membrane and Catalytic Membrane Reactors. He is involved in many International Societies, Scientific Committees, Editorial Boards, and International Advisory Boards. Currently Chairman of the Section on "Membrane Engineering" of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering and coordinator of EU-EUDIME Doctorate School on Membrane Engineering. He has been coordinator of several international research projects. He is the recipient of various Awards and Honours, ex. "Richard Maling Barrer Prize? of the EMS, Academician Semenov Medal of Russian Academy of Engineering Science, MIAC International Award for his contributions in the field of Membrane Science and Technologies, etc. He is author of more than 800 scientific papers, 22 patents and 24 books on Membrane Science and Technology. Senior Research Scientist (Membrane Research Center) at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology; Postdoc Researcher at the Hanyang University, South Korea Ph.D in Chemical Engineering (May 2014) at the Imperial College London, U.K.Bachelor of Science in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), USA. Research Presentation Award - Imperial College ChemEng Ph.D Symposium (2012). His research activities focus on Synthesis, characterization, and chemical modification of polymers; Biomedical application of membrane technology and development of biocompatible polymers, etc. Authors and co-author of more 40 scientific papers and 2 patents. Post-doc researcher at ITM-CNR since June 2011. She is expert in pressure driven membrane operations, membrane condensers, membrane contactors and integrated membrane systems mainly in water treatment. She is member of the section of EFCE on Membrane. She was and is involved in several research national and international projects (MEDINA, CAPWA, NAWADES, MATChING, etc.) and is author of more than 55 papers published in international journals on membrane processes for water treatment. She is also author of 11 books' chapters, co-editor of the book "Membrane-based Desalination: An Integrated Approach?, IWA Publishig (ISBN: 9781843393214) and co-editor of special issues of journals on membrane operations.