Giuseppe BARBIERI research director at ITM-CNR (www.itm.cnr.it), has a master degree in chemical Engineering – with honours - PhD in “Chemical and new materials technologies” and a National scientific qualification of university full professor in Chemical plants and technologies.

Main research interests are covering the fundamentals, mass transport and engineering in membrane operations for the treatment of gas, vapors, aeriform and liquid streams of industrial relevance/interest (containing, H₂, CO, CO₂, N₂, CH₄, HCs, water vapor, acid, basis, contaminant, etc.) and conversion (hydrogen production and upgrade, DME and CO₂ reduction, etc.)

He is/was invited professor at the "Université de Strasbourg (France, since 2010), contract professor at the University of Calabria (Italy), responsible for 14 research and formation projects, including the coordination of EC/FP7-FCH JU LoLiPEM and M.era-NET BioValue, and participated in others 16 research and formation projects funded by the EC, MAECI, MIUR, CNR, the Calabria Region, Norwegian Research Council, and private companies. He serves as scientific and/or technical evaluator of research and industrial projects for funding institutions such as European Commission, MIUR and MiSE (Italy), RPF (Cyprus), FWO and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), The Petroleum Research Fund (USA), Programa FONDECYT CONICYT (Chile), EU-ERC starting and consolidator grants, IF, etc. He also served as evaluator for a tenure track position in the framework of Italian MIUR “Rita LEVI MONTALCINI” action for University positions.

He co-authored more >120 papers, a two-books set for Royal Society of Chemistry and its second edition, various books chapters, invited lectures and seminars, and ca. 300 presentations at conferences on membrane science and engineering.