Prof. Alessandro De Giacomo, PhD, is a professor in General Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry, and Plasma Chemistry at the University of Bari in Italy, an associate researcher at the Institute of Nanotechnology of the National Council of the Researches (CNR-NANOTEC), and an Affiliate Professor of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. His research has been focused on fundamental studies of laser induced plasmas in different applications ranging from material science to analytical chemistry, such as laser spectroscopy, nanoparticle (NP) and carbon nanostructure synthesis by pulsed laser ablation in liquid (PLAL), laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), and plasma assisted pulsed laser deposition. The main active projects are in the field of aerospace and NP-laser plasma interaction. At present he is the head of the laser-matter interaction labs in the joint collaboration on laser plasmas of the University of Bari and the CNR-NANOTEC. Beyond research and the academic work, Prof Alessandro De Giacomo is an active member of a number of scientific committees of international conferences, a member of the editorial boards of international journals, and a reviewer of several funding agencies in Europe and North America. Since 2017 he has served as the chief editor of Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy, an Elesvier journal.