Microwave Green Extraction

Received his B.S in chemistry from Valparaiso University in 1992 and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in 1995 under the direction of S. Roy Koirtyohann, who authored the first paper on microwave-assisted acid digestions. He completed his postdoctoral training at the New York State Department of Health, and then worked at Duquesne University with Prof. H.M. ‘Skip” Kingston. He is currently a chemistry professor at Chicago State University and director of the Center for Microwave Enhanced Chemistry (CMEC). CMEC is engaged in variety of microwave research including nanoparticle synthesis, optimization of organic synthetic methodologies, environmental inorganic metals analysis, and integrating microwave enhanced chemistry to Aquaponics system development. He was the lead author on the 2001 Analytical Chemistry A-Page article, “Microwave Enhanced Chemistry”, and the author of the first microwave clean chemistry book, “Clean Chemistry for the Modern Laboratory”.

Camillo Pirola is Marketing and Business Development Manager at Milestone. After receiving his degree in Chemistry, Camillo joined Milestone in May 1991 as Application Chemist. His professional career does interlace with Milestone overall growth. Camillo became Application Manager, providing application support to all Milestone distributors around the world. In the late 90’s he became Area Manager for several Countries including Japan, Italy, the UK, Spain, Russia, India and Brazil. While retaining his position of Area Manager, Camillo took in the mid 2000’s the full responsibility for the Milestone marketing at global level. Since 2012 he is also Business Development Manager at Milestone. Camillo has contributed to several scientific papers and lectures and is often invited to give presentations, seminars and training courses worldwide.