Prof. Paolo Colombo University of Padua Italy Paolo Colombo is a professor of Materials Science and Technology at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, an adjunct professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, and a visiting professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of University College London. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Pennsylvania State University in 1991, a Foreign Scientist at INSA, Lyon, France in 2015, and a DGF Mercator Professor at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany in 2016. He is an Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics, Academician of the European Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, Fellow of the European Ceramic Society, and is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College (UK). He received numerous awards and has published more than 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 9 book chapters and holds 12 international patents. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Open Ceramics (Elsevier, ISSN: 2666-5395) and is in the editorial board of 6 other international scientific journals. His h index is 58 (Google Scholar).