**Education**: earned a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, in 1991. **Career**: full professor of industrial chemistry at the University of Salerno, Italy . He has co-authored more than 380 scientific papers with about 14500 citations and h-index 64. He has participated in 55 national and European research projects, in 30 of which he was scientifically responsible. He holds 2 Greek and 15 international patents. **Research interests**: synthesis and characterization of polyesters, polymers from biobased monomers, copolymers and nanocomposites.