Roberto Pisano is a Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino (Italy), where he also serves as the coordinator of the PhD programme in Chemical Engineering. His research centres on the application of both computational and experimental methods in the engineering of chemical products and processes, with a particular focus on pharmaceutical processing and the formulation of both small molecules and biologics, primarily in lyophilised formulations. He was a visiting researcher at the Centre de Ressources Technologiques – Institut Technique Agro-Industriel (Strasbourg, France) in 2008, and at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA) in 2016. Since 2024, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Lyophilisation/Freeze-Drying. He has published over 140 papers, 17 book chapters, and has edited 1 book on the freeze-drying of pharmaceuticals. He also holds 8 patents, either issued or pending.