Prof. Antonio Marcomini has been a full professor of Environmental Chemistry at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice since 2000. Member of national (e.g. Ministry of the Environment, Venice Water Authority) and international (e.g. European Water Foundation) advisory/expert committees Science, European Environment Agency) on environmental chemical quality, environmental risk assessment, definition and implementation of environmental quality standards, the master plan of contaminated megasites, etc., is currently past-president of the Division of Environmental Chemistry and of the Cultural Heritage of the SCI (Italian Chemical Society), national delegate in the Division of Chemistry and the Environment (DCE) of the EuchemS (European Chemical Societies), president of CoRiLa (Coordination of Research on the Venice Lagoon), director of the masters in Sustainable environmental remediation and remediation of contaminated sites and Sciences and techniques for environmental prevention and safety (STEPS-HSE). In the years 2014–2020, he was director of the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics, and Statistics and a member of the Academic Senate; since 2020, he has been vice-rector of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Dr. And Ioannis A. Katsoyiannis is an Associate Professor of Environmental Technology at the Department of Chemistry of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is the President of the Association of Greek Chemists, of the Hellenic Industrial Property Academy, and a member of the administrative council of the Hellenic Industrial Property Organization. He is an expert in water and wastewater treatment technologies, water reuse, and the circular economy. He was the recipient of prestigious international fellowships, such as from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Swiss Science National Foundation, and he received a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship. He has conducted research at the Technical University of Berlin, the Technical University of Hamburg, the ETH (Zurich), and the EPFL (Lausanne). Between 2008 and 2014, he worked as a principal chemical engineer for the giant engineering companies Alstom Power and Hitachi Power Europe in the design, construction, and commissioning of some of the biggest thermal power plants in Europe. In 2019, he was the chair of the 17th International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment, which is the official environmental conference of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS). He is currently a member of the Executive Board of EuChemS, Chair of the Division of Chemistry and Environment of EuChemS, and editor for the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Springer).
