Dr. Majid Hosseini has earned both his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from The University of Akron in Ohio, United States, while also holding a professional certificate in Innovation and Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Massachusetts, United States. He has also completed an MSE degree in Manufacturing Engineering at UTRGV in Texas, United States and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. Dr. Hosseini is the editor of multiple high caliber books, has published several peer reviewed research articles and book chapters, and has co-invented patents application technologies. He has served as a key speaker at multiple international conferences and has been actively engaged in technology development. Dr. Hosseini’s research interests, expertise, and experiences are diverse, ranging from smart bio-/nanomaterials, smart polymers and coatings, nanoparticles, and bio-/nanotechnology to bioprocess engineering and development, biomanufacturing, biofuels and bioenergy, and sustainability.
Dr. Ioannis Karapanagiotis has obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota, USA, and his diploma in Chemical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He serves as a member in editorial boards and reviewer in several journals (more than 100), and he has published multiple research papers (more than 150) in peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings. Dr. Karapanagiotis specializes in interfacial engineering and its applications on the protection and conservation of cultural heritage and in the physicochemical characterization and analysis of cultural heritage materials which are found in historic monuments, paintings, icons, textiles, and manuscripts. Dr. Karapanagiotis is an associate professor at the Department of Management and Conservation of Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage Objects, University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki, Greece.