Prof. Francesco Ciardelli is a President at SPIN-PET S.r.l., Pontedera, Toscana, Italy. He undertook his postdoc at University Collage London and the Max-Planck Institute in Germany. As a visiting Professor at Berkeley, Kyoto, and Paris Universities, the results of his research have been the basis of more than 380 papers in international journals, more than 250 invited presentations, 22 industrial patents, and 9 books. His main results relate to the formulation of polyolefin adhesives, plastic recycling, blends and composites including nanocomposites, energy production, and catalysis. His research and expertise include polyolefins, catalytic polymerization, composites and nanocomposites, reactive extrusion, and structure-controlled polymers.