Paolo P. Mazzeo is Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at the University of Parma. His research is focused on Mechanochemistry and Crystal Engineering, mainly on the design, synthesis and characterization of cocrystals and crystalline sponges made of flexible MOF-guest systems. In particular, he is interested in the structural dynamical interpretation of the loading and release process of volatile guest molecules related to environmental sustainability. He is also involved in the field of Time Resolved In-Situ (TRIS) XRPD characterization of mechanochemical reactions by means of synchrotron radiation. He was awarded a PhD in Chemical Science at the University of Bologna in 2014 on solid-state luminescent metal-organic compounds for optoelectronic devices. After his PhD, he worked as Crystallographer and Material Scientist at Excelsus Structural Solutions (Swiss) AG, located at the Swiss Light Source - Paul Scherrer Institute, where he dealt with Structure Solution and Refinement from XRPD data as well as qualitative and quantitative phase analyses. He is past-chair of the European Crystallographic Association GIG01 “Group of European Young Crystallographers” and Past-chair of the Italian Young Crystallographers Group of the Italian Association of Crystallography (AIC). Along with research activities he is also committed in many outreach events.