Special Issue AMPERE 15-Foreword

Dear Reader, This Special Issue has been dedicated to collect the most interesting and innovative works presented at the 15th edition of AMPERE EUROPE (Association for Microwave Power in Europe for Research and Education) biennial meeting: the International Conference on Microwave and High Frequency Heating (AMPERE 2015) here at the Cracow University of Technology, Krakow, Poland. AMPERE, is an "European" non-profit association devoted to the promotion of microwave and radio frequency heating techniques for research and industrial applications, every two year select one of its research groups to host the event. This time the Polish research group of Professor Dariusz Bogdal, here at the Cracow University of Technology, in Kraków, Poland, was selected. The conference has been successfully organised from 14th to 17th September 2015 and it was confirmed to take the aspect of an excellent international meeting with participants coming from all over the world, underlining once more the world-wide interest on this topic from part of academics, industrialists, and consultants. The high number of plenary and key-note lectures, jointly with oral and poster presentations, allowed the attendees to report on the novelties in the field of microwave and radio frequency applications and increase the interest of you all in this still evolving research fields. This Special Issue will furnish the scientists of the world with an excellent reference book. I trust also that this will be an impetus to stimulate further study and research in all these areas. AMPERE is thankful to all authors for their contributions and to the Guest Editors for their excellent job. Cristina Leonelli AMPERE President