Mario GrassiMario Grassi has a graduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Trieste University, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Padova University (Italy). He has received multiple grants to study topics such as diffusion processes and drug activation bymeans of mechano-chemical activation, drug diffusion in polymeric matrices and release processes, and viscoelastic and rheological properties of polymeric systems. From 2002-2004 he worked for EURAND as co-ordinator of the Trieste site research activities. In 2005 he became associate professor (Faculty of Engineering of the Trieste University). Since 2011 he has been member of the editorial board of the international journals "Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly (CABEQ) and "World Journal of Pharmacology." Dr. Grassi has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in international journals and more than 150 congress communications. He is also a co-author of "Understanding drug release and absorption mechanisms: a physical and mathematical approach" (CRC Press, 2007). Since 2012 he has been vice-president of the Doctorate School in Chemistry, University of Trieste, and in May 2013 he became chairman of the board of professors, Master degree in Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Trieste. Read More Read Less