Plinio Innocenzi is a full professor of materials science at the University of Sassari, Italy, and director of the Laboratory of Materials Science and Nanotechnology (LMNT). He is a recognized scientist in the field of materials science and sol-gel chemistry, has edited several special issues in international journals, and has contributed expert chapters to professional handbooks. He is co-author of the book From Water Droplets to Nanotechnology (2015) and, with Springer in particular, he has published two editions of the SpringerBriefs The Sol-to-Gel Transition, as well as the popular science monograph The Innovators Behind Leonardo (2019). He currently has 220 publications in peer-reviewed international journals with more than 9700 citations, and an h-index of 51.