作者: Fabrizio Esposito

Gianpiero Colonna is a senior researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), in Italy. His research activities are focused on plasma modeling, state-to-state kinetics, thermodynamic and transport properties of plasmas, and modelling plasma plume produced by ns laser pulses. He co-edited the book Plasma modeling: methods and applications in the IOP Series in Plasma Physics. Mario Capitelli is a full professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Bari, in Italy. His research is prominent in different fields, including dynamics of elementary processes, plasma physics, chemistry, laser-plasma interaction and aerothermodynamics. Capitelli has contributed to more than 500 publications and has authored and edited a selection of plasma-related books. He received the Laurea Honoris Causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in 2013, and the title of Docteur Honoris Causa of the Université Paris 13, in Paris in 2015. Annarita Laricchiuta is a researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), in Italy. Her research areas focus on the theoretical calculation of dynamical data for elementary processes in plasmas among other fields of plasma research.