Prof. Lucia Gardossi is Associate Professor of organic chemistry at the School of Pharmacy of University of Trieste and Head of the Laboratory of “Applied and Computational Biocatalysis” at the “Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche” (DSCF) since 2005. 
        She has more than 30 years’ experience in biocatalysis, having worked in international institution at MIT (USA) and also in industry on bio-based chemistry, industrial biotechnology. She has close collaborations with several other chemical, biotechnological, and engineering groups in Europe as well as with industrial partners, having also co-funded in 2007 a spin off company (Sprin technology for sustainable chemistry) together with so-workers and Mitsubishi Chemical Coorporation. The entire national and international network of the group and University will be available to ER for individual collaborations. Prof. Lucia Gardossi has a long-term experience in mentoring and supervising PhD students (>10) and Post Docs (>25). Since 2017 she is Member of the board of the Italian National Cluster on Green Chemistry-SPRING and coordinator of the Scientific Committee. 
She is also member of the National Bioeconomy Coordination Task Force, Presidency of Council of Ministers of Italian Government, as well as member of the working group on Bioeconomy of the Italian Minister for the Environment. She has been vice chair of the Advisory group of the European Commission for the SC2 of H2020 and rapporteur for the mid term evaluation of the BBI JU programme. Currently she is member of the advisory group for the analysis of BBI JU programme portfolio and KPIs validations. She is also member of the Advisory Board of Acib (Austria), and involved in an H2020 ITN project as responsible of one scientific WP and of the gender working group.