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Maurizio Fermeglia, the leader of molecular simulation engineering (MOSE) laboratory, is professor of Chemical Engineering and head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at University of Trieste. He graduated in Chemical Engineering at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Trieste in 1980. He got his habilitation for chemical engineer in 1985. In 1981 and 82 he worked as visiting scientist at the Denmark Technical University (DTH). His current position is full professor at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Trieste, where he holds the course in ‘Chemical Reaction Engineering’, ‘Process Simulation’ and ‘Data base’. He is the director of the PHD School in Nanotechnology at the University of Trieste. He has been involved in teaching for the following courses: Physics, Physical Chemistry, Computer calculation, Unit operations, Transport and thermodynamic properties measurements, Transfer processes and units, Object Oriented Programming, Net Economy at University of Trieste. He has been teaching courses and seminars for industries and academia on the following topics: phase equilibrium and thermodynamics, equilibrium properties calculation, process simulation, applied thermodynamics, molecular simulation, multiscale modelling for polymers. He held seminars on Programming, Operating Systems, Data Base, Networking, Internetworking, multimedia. The main research activities are focused on transport and thermodynamic properties, their experimental determination, correlation and prediction, chemical process analysis and synthesis and molecular modeling witht particular attention to nanomaterials and life sciences. He has been scientific consultant of ICS - UNIDO within the Subprogram 'Process Simulation' from 1999 to 2008. He is IUPC fellows from 2003. He is author of more than 350 publications in national and international journals and conference proceedings on thermodynamics, molecular modelling, process simulation and computer science.

Sabrina Pricl graduated in Chemistry in 1986 at the Science Faculty of the University of Trieste. The same year, she obtained her habilitation for Chemist profession. From 1986 to 1990 she worked as fellowship at the Area Science Park of Trieste and at University of Trieste. From 1990 to February 2002 she was assistant professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Trieste. On February 2002 she became associate professor of Chemical Engineering at the same Faculty.

From 1995 to 2000 she was appointed as teacher of Physical and Technological Properties of High Polymers. At the time being, she holds the course of Thermodynamics and Transport Properties, and is a member of the Research Doctorate Council of the University of Padua and Trieste. She has been also involved in teaching in the following courses: Chemistry, chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, Chemical Engineering Principles, and Rheology of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Systems. She has been and still currently is holding courses and seminars at several Universities and Scientific Institutions on several topics, including biopolymer rheology, thermodynamics and molecular modeling and simulation.

Maria Silvia Paneni graduated cum Laudae in Chemical Engineering at the Engineering faculty of the University of Trieste on October 2002.The year after she obtained her habilitation for the profession of Chemical Engineering. She started her PhD in Chemical Engineering on January 2004.

Her main research activity concerns the study, correlation and prediction of the structure/property relationships for molecular systems in life and material sciences.

Paolo Cosoli graduated in Environmental Engineering in Trieste, 2003 with the thesis Experimental study for the anaerobic wastewater treatment in the city of Mahajanga, Madagascar.

He was previously engaged by the Civil and Environmental Department (DICA) of the Engineering Faculty in Trento for didactic activities and research about wastewater treatment and solid wastes; experimental research (wastewater treatment in developing countries), seminary organisation (sanitary engineering: waste and wastewater treatment and analysis). Active member of the voluntary association Engineering without Borders-Trento; now engaged as coordinator in a cooperation project in Madagascar (wastewater treatment and disposal). He obtained the PhD in 2009 in Chemical Engineering with a thesis about environmental applications of multi-scale molecular modelling. He is currently involved in various activities in the field of environmental engineering and molecular modelling.

His research activity is carried out at the MOSE - ‘Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dell'Ambiente e delle Materie Prime’ (DICAMP) of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Trieste. The main research activities are focused on the study, correlation and prediction of the structure/property relationships for complex molecular systems in material sciences.

Radovan Tóth, working as research assistance of molecular simulation engineering (MOSE) laboratory, graduated in chemistry from Slovak Technical University, Bratislava (Slovakia) in 2001. After the graduation he started the postgradual study at the Slovak Technical University and in 2002 he continued at the University of Trieste where he joined the MOSE laboratory. His main research activities are focused on the study, correlation and prediction of the structure/property relationships for complex molecular systems in material sciences. From July 2006 to June 2009 he acted as the research assistant of Laboratory of Molecular, Biostructural and Nanomaterial Modeling (LMBNM) of the Consortium AREA Science Park, Trieste (Italy). In this laboratory he specialized in molecular modeling and structural characterization studies of biomolecules, molecular and biosensor design, structure-activity relationships and bioinformatics. He is author of scientific papers in international journals and conference participant of molecular modelling, simulations and computer science. His mother language is Slovak. He speaks English, Italian and Russian language.

Letitia Toma graduated The Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the “Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on June 2003. One year later she graduated the Master of Science in Advanced Process Engineering. She started the PhD in Chemical Engineering on January 2005.

Her main research activity is focused on the simulation of chemical processes, more exactly, on the implementation of environmental protection methods in process simulators.

Paola Posocco graduated in Chemical Engineering at the University of Trieste in 2005. In the same year, she had an education grant in Plast-Optic Research Center (UD), in the field of plastic materials and optoelectronic devices for the automotive. From July 2006 she started her collaboration with Molecular Simulation Engineering Laboratory (MOSE), active within the University of Trieste in the area of molecular modelling of nanostructured and non materials for life and material science. From January 2007 she started her PhD in Nanotechnology in Trieste. From the beginning of the 2008 she collaborates with Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana in the framework of DRUDE project "Nanovectors for drug delivery in oncology: a combined modeling/experimental study".

Her research activity is mainly focused on the multiscale modelling of nanostructured complex bio/non bio systems. She is now involved in the European Project MultiPro “Design of tailor to made multifunctional materials by molecular modelling of structure property relationship, experimentation and processing” (VI FP) and Nanomodel “Multi-Scale Modelling of Nano-Structured Polymeric Materials: From Chemistry to Materials Performance” (VII FP).