Davide Mattia, FIChemE, CEng, is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath. He earned a MEng in Materials Engineering in 2002 from the University ‘Federico II, Napoli, Italy, and a PhD in Materials Engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, in 2007. He joined Bath in 2008 as a Lecturer and was promoted to a full Professor in 2016. His current research focuses on using membranes to address environmental challenges, including the sustainable manufacturing of materials and the removal of organic micropollutants from water. He is a past Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, holds an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship in Water Engineering and is PI on the £9Mn EPSRC Programme Grant SynHiSel on highly selective membranes. He has authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and holds several patents on membrane-related inventions. He is the co-founder of Naturbeads Ltd. a start-up manufacturing biodegradable cellulose microbeads as a replacement for plastic microparticles used in a wide range of products.