Giorgio Micale received a Laurea cum laude in Chemical Engineering from Università di Paler mo in 1993 and a PhD from Università di Napoli in 1997. He joined University College London as a Lecturer in 2000, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002. He is currently Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at Università di Palermo. His early research interests were focused on the analysis of mixing processes and multiphase flows in stirred tank reactors. In 2001 he was the recipient of the “Young Researcher’s Award” by the Working Party on Mixing of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. Current research interests are in the fields of Renewable Energy Desalination Processes, Salinity Gradient Energy and Valorization of Brines. In 2014 he was awarded the Senior Moulton medal by the Institution of Chemical Engineers. In 2017 he co- founded the academic spin-off ResourSeas, which was awarded the Italian National Prize of Innovation for the sustainable use of seawater following a circular economy approach. He has edited books on “Seawater Desalination. Conventional and Renewable Energy Processes”, “Sustainable Energy from Salinity Gradients” and “Salinity Gradient Heat Engines”. He authored 225 publications indexed in the Scopus database with more than 7700 citations and Hindex equal to 49.