Editorial Board Member

Antonio Zuorro (Ph.D.) is a Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials and Environment of Sapienza University of Rome, heading GreenSapiens (www.bit.ly/GreenSapiens) as a Circular Economy expert in processes and materials, including green nanoparticles. In close collaboration with companies and institutions from different countries, he develops innovative and mild green technologies (based on engineered enzyme mixtures and/or mixed-polarity green solvents) for the recovery of value-added compounds from a variety of biological sources, especially agro-industrial wastes: the recovery of lycopene from tomato processing waste, antioxidant phenolics from spent coffee grounds, olive pomace, fruit peels, corn husks, and brewers’ spent grain and, recently, lipids and other bioactive from microalgae. He is involved in the analysis and validation of sustainable processes for an integral valorization of materials with a cascade and circular-economy approach. He has been visiting professor, holding invited lectures, at important universities and international conferences worldwide, and is Coordinator/Scientific Responsible for many national and European projects managing public institutions, SMEs, and large enterprises (i.e. “EXCornsEED”, granted in HORIZON 2020). His activity is attested by hundreds of publications, industrial patents, and awards/prizes in competitions sponsored by scientific and industrial associations.

Chemical reaction engineering, Antioxidant activity, Extraction, Food chemistry, Natural product chemistry, Food analysis, Wastewater treatment, Biotechnology, Enzymes