Marco Petrangeli Papini is a full professor of "Processes and Industrial Chemical Plants"  at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, where he has been teaching and conducting research since 1995. He graduated with honors in Industrial Chemistry in 1990 and a PhD in Chemical Sciences in 1994. Currently, he teaches the courses “Chemical Industrial Processes and Plants” and “Dynamics of Contaminants and Remediation of Polluted Sites” in the frame of the Industrial Chemistry degree. Since 2010, he has been the Director of the II-Level Masters in “Characterization and Technology for the Remediation of Polluted Sites”. He has been an expert member of the technical committee at the Ministry of Environment, in charge of the evaluation of the remediation projects at the Italian National Priority Sites. Since December 2023, he has been the Scientific Counselor to the Italian Navy regarding the environmental impacts of military activities and remediation. He is the scientific coordinator of several national and international scientific and operational projects in the field of remediation of contaminated sites. In this area, he has authored more than 100 scientific publications in international journals and books, presented over 80 communications at international conferences, applied for five industrial patents, edited books, and guest-edited several international peer-reviewed journals.