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22 June 2020
Processes 2020 Best Paper Award Winner Announcement

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the 3 winners of the Processes 2020 Best Paper Award, sponsored by MDPI and Processes.

Nominations were selected from the papers published in 2018 by the Editorial Office of Processes. The selection committee is chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Cravotto. We hope this award will encourage the publication of other high-quality papers in the journal in the future.

Article:

GEKKO Optimization Suite
Processes 2018, 6(8), 106; doi: 10.3390/pr6080106
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/6/8/106

Methanol Synthesis: Optimal Solution for a Better Efficiency of the Process
Processes 2018, 6(3), 20; doi: 10.3390/pr6030020
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/6/3/20

Review

Modeling and Simulation of Energy Systems: A Review
Processes 2018, 6(12), 238; doi: 10.3390/pr6120238
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/6/12/238

On behalf of the Prize Awarding Committee and the Editorial Board, we would like to congratulate the authors of the above manuscripts and we also thank Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Cravotto for his excellent work in the hard task of selecting a winner from such a large number of excellent candidate profiles. We are very proud to publish high-quality papers; we will continue to hold the Processes 2020 Best Paper Award and wish all scholars great success in their careers.

Thank you very much for your valuable contribution to the journal and we are looking forward to further collaborating with you.

Processes Editorial Office

Congratulations!

9 June 2020
Prof. Dr. Dariusz Dziki Appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the new section "Food Processes" in Processes

To better categorize papers published within the journal Processes, a new topical Section “Food Processes” was recently established. Prof. Dr. Dariusz Dziki has been appointed as the Section Editor-in-Chief of this new section “Food Processes” in Processes.

Since 2013, Prof. Dr. Dariusz Dziki has been a professor at the Head of the Department of Thermal Technology and Food Process Engineering. He is now also part of the Faculty of Production Engineering, at the University of Life Sciences in Lublin and a member of the Polish Society of Agricultural Engineering.

Dariusz Dziki received his Master of Science degree in Food and Agriculture Engineering from the University of Life Science in Lublin in 1995. He received his Doctor of Science degree in Food and Agriculture Engineering in 2001; cereal processing from the University of Life Science in Lublin. In 2008, he received his Post-doctoral degree and, he received the title of Professor in 2013

He has been the supervisor of two domestic projects: (1) Influence of natural elicitors on nutraceutical potential of wheat sprouts and evaluation of bioaccessibility in vitro and thermostability of bioactive compounds. (2) Preparation of fiber preparation from the husk and fruit-seed coat of oats using innovative hulling and grinding technologies. And he also acted as the main constructor of one foreign and five domestic projects (Polonium).

Moreover, he has been awarded 12 times for scientific activity by the Rector of Agriculture University in Lublin, among other things, receiving the award for the publication with the largest number of citations and the publication with the highest impact factor. His main area of research is Food processing, including drying, milling, grinding, baking, pasta production, food fortification, and food powders production.

We are confident that the strong academic background and connections of the new Section Editor-in-Chief will continue to raise the prestige and quality of Processes.

9 June 2020
Prof. Dr. Francesca Spyrakis Appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the section “Biological Systems” in Processes

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Francesca Spyrakis was appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the section “Biological Systems” of the journal Processes.

Prof. Dr. Francesca Spyrakis is Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Department of Drug Science and Technology (University of Turin), where she leads the molecular modelling group.

She received her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Parma in 2007. Since then, she has been working for the development and application of computational methods to study protein–ligand interactions. Her main research interests include the design of ligands targeting relevant pharmaceutical targets, with particular attention to antimicrobials, as well as the investigation of protein dynamics.

She authored more than 80 publications which have been cited over 1700 times (h-index 25) and several book sections, including the chapter on “Docking, Scoring and Virtual Screening in Drug Design” in Burger’s Medicinal Chemistry, and has presented more than 90 communications at international congresses (ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4016-227X).

Prof. Spyrakis is an active member of the scientific committee of relevant workshops and meetings in the field of computational chemistry, such as the European Workshop on Drug Design and Computationally Driven Drug Discovery.

We are confident that with her strong academic background and connections, our newly appointed Section Editor-in-Chief will continue to raise the prestige and quality of Processes.

1 June 2020
Prof. Dr. Matti Lehtonen Appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the new Section "Energy Systems" in Processes

In order to better categorize papers published within the journal Processes, a new topical section “Energy Systems” has recently been set up. We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Matti Lehtonen has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of this new section.

Since 1999, Prof. Dr. Matti Lehtonen has been a professor at the Helsinki University of Technology, nowadays Aalto University, where he is head of Power Systems and High Voltage Engineering. Matti Lehtonen received both his Master’s and Licentiate degrees in Electrical Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology, in 1984 and 1989, respectively. He received his Doctor of Technology degree from Tampere University of Technology in 1992. The main activities of Dr. Lehtonen include power and energy system planning, power system protection, demand response and applica­tions of informa­tion technology in power and energy systems.

We are confident that the strong academic background and connections of the new Section Editor-in-Chief will continue to raise the prestige and quality of Processes.

1 June 2020
Prof. Dr. Anet Režek Jambrak Appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the Section "Advanced Digital and Other Processes" in Processes

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Anet Režek Jambrak has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the section "Advanced Digital and Other Processes" in the journal Processes.

Prof. Dr. Anet Režek Jambrak has been a professor and scientific advisor in food engineering (biotechnical sciences) as part of the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology of the University of Zagreb since 2018. Since 2019, she has been the head of the Laboratory for Sustainable Development. She was trained abroad at Coventry University, UK, and at the University of Avignon, France. Her fields of research include food chemistry, food physics, nonthermal processing, advanced thermal processing, sustainability, food processing, Industry 4.0, and digitalization. Since 2007, Anet Režek Jambrak has published over 100 significant scientific papers, which have been cited more than 2300 times (h-index 25), and has been the author of chapters in books from recognized scientific publishers like Wiley, Elsevier, and Springer. She has received many prizes and awards: in 2019, she was awarded the title of Highly Cited Researcher, placing her among the top 0.1% of scientists around the world (powered by Web of Science https://publons.com/awards/highly-cited/2019); also in 2019, she received the National Award for Science from the Parliament of the Republic of Croatia, Ministry of Science and Education, Government of the Republic of Croatia; in 2016, she was awarded the Young Scientist Award by the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFOST); and in 2011, she received the "Vera Johanides" Young Scientist Award from the Academy of Technical Sciences of Croatia. She also received recognition for highly cited papers from the world-renowned Journal of Food Engineering in 2010.

She teaches courses related to nonthermal and advanced thermal processing, food engineering, physical properties of foods, sustainability, and Industry 4.0 in biotechnical sciences. She is a member of the Global Young Academy (GYA) and the International Academy of Food Science and Technology (IAFoST).

We are confident that the strong academic background and connections of the new Section Editor-in-Chief will continue to raise the prestige and quality of Processes.

15 May 2020
Recruiting Editors for Processes


Processes
(ISSN 2227-9717) (IF 1.963, 69/138 (Q2) in 'Engineering, Chemical') is currently recruiting Editorial Board Members.

Processes provides an advanced forum for process/systems-related research in chemistry, biology, materials and allied engineering fields. The journal publishes regular research papers, communications, letters, short notes and reviews. Our aim is to encourage researchers to publish their experimental, theoretical and computational results in as much detail as necessary. There is no restriction on paper length or number of figures and tables.

As an Editorial Board Member, you would have the unique opportunity to help build the Processes community by identifying and introducing suitable collaborators. You would be able to lead specialty sections and direct the focus of research topics to facilitate the publication of key findings and historical advances in a hot research area. Furthermore, you would have an excellent avenue to gain insight into the latest developments in this multidisciplinary field of study. Finally, you would have the privilege of publishing one paper per year totally free of charge after peer review.

More details regarding the Editorial Board of Processes are available via the following link:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/editors

If you are interested in this position or have potential candidates to recommend, please contact the Processes Editorial Office at processes@mdpi.com.

13 May 2020
COVID-19 Academic Resources Center


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15 April 2020
Professor Giancarlo Cravotto Appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Processes

We are pleased to announce that starting from 10 April 2020, the editorial leadership of Processes has been taken over by Professor Giancarlo Cravotto (University of Turin)

Prof. 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. He spent a year at the Techniche Universität in Berlin (Prof. P. Weyerstahl), on an organic synthesis project, funded by DFG and CNR, in 1992.

His research activity in the domain of green organic synthesis and sustainable processes is documented by about 410 scientific, peer-reviewed papers (Scopus—H. Index 50; 10,800 citations), 19 patents, 40 book chapters and 7 books as editor, and more than 400 communications to scientific meetings, including several invited plenary and keynote lectures. The extraction, purification, synthesis, and chemical modification of bioactive natural products has been the focus of his research activity. These studies have paved the way for new, nonconventional energy source driven synthetic procedures (microwaves, ultrasound, hydrodynamic cavitation, mechanochemistry, flow chemistry, etc.), while also prompting the development of innovative hybrid reactors. New enabling technologies have been applied in process intensification with industrial partners across a number of fields, including food processing, phytoextracts, pharmaceutics, fine chemicals, cosmetics, and biomedical polymers. He was the Director of the Department of Drug Science and Technology from 2007 to October 2018, and he is currently Full Professor of Organic Chemistry and vice-Director, leading a research group and a technological platform for process design from lab to pilot scale. In his new role, he will work closely with over 100 Editorial Board Members from across the globe, and we are confident that under his leadership, the journal will continue as a highly respected journal in the field.

We would like to take the opportunity to express our gratitude to the previous Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Michael A. Henson, for his invaluable contributions to the journal.

9 April 2020
Free Open Platforms to Support Academics During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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25 March 2020
MDPI Comment on the COVID-19 Virus

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