Cristiano Chiarabelli Editor

Professor Dr Pier Luigi Luisi is an acknowledged expert in the field of synthetic biology and supramolecular chemistry, with over 400 scientific papers to his name. He is the author of seven books, including The Emergence of Life. From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology (CUP, 2006). He is now based at Univ. Roma 3, Italy where his research interests are the never-born proteins, and the construction of vesicle-based bioreactors that simulate the main functions of biological cells.

Dr. Cristiano Chiarabelli, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.