Francesco Maluta is a junior assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Bologna in Italy. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2020. Before and during his PhD, he carried out research activities at the University of Alberta, Canada, and at the Toulouse Biotechnology Institute of INSA Toulouse, France. His main expertise is in the numerical simulations of multiphase flows in chemical and process equipment through computational fluid dynamics approaches with open- and closed-source software. His recent research interests are directed towards the numerical simulations of aerated stirred fermenters, inline mixers, and separators with a coupled population balance model (PBM) approach.