Ing. Andrea Gianico graduated in 2005 in environmental engineering. His current position is researcher at CNR-IRSA (Rome), the Water Research Institute of the National Research Council of Italy. In the last years the research activity has been focused on sludge and organic waste management, in particular regarding mechanical, thermal, and thermochemical pretreatments on sludge and organic waste, to improve anaerobic stabilization, resource recovery, biogas conversion rates and recovery of added-value compounds from waste.