Diego Pugliese graduated with an M.Sc. in environmental physics from the Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy, in 2010 and received his Ph.D. from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2014. He continued his work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Applied Science and Technology of Politecnico di Torino focusing on the design, synthesis, and characterization of non-silica oxide-based glasses for photonics and biophotonics. Since July 2023, he is researcher at the National Institute of Metrological Research (INRiM), Italy, and his research focuses on new materials, processes, devices, and systems for the Clean Energy Transition. He is author of more than 80 papers on international journals and co-inventor of one Italian patent.

Giulio Malucelli received his Master’s degree in chemical engineering in 1992 from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and a PhD in Chemistry in 1996 from the University of Genova, Italy. At present, he is a full professor of materials science and technology at the Department of Applied Science and Technology, Alessandria branch, where he investigates the structure–property–processing relationships in polymer systems, polymer blends, and their micro- and nanocomposites.