PhD in Archaeology since 2002, Barbara Cerasetti is since 2006 the Project Director of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Turkmenistan. Her main specialization is the reconstruction of ancient landscape in prehistoric Central Asia, in correlation with climate change through the application of advanced technology, especially remote sensing. Since 2003 she teaches remote sensing techniques for landscape archaeology in the Laboratory of Topography of the Department of History and Cultures (DiSCI) at the University of Bologna. She participated in numerous field research projects of DiSCI and the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient (IsIAO) of Rome, today IsMEO, often in collaboration with European and American Institutions, in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Oman, Algeria and Italy. Remarkable is her skill in managing relationships with people of different cultures, gained in many years of work experience in Asian countries, mainly in archaeology and sustainable as well as in the coordination and administration of people, and in organizing exhibitions, conferences and projects with function of leadership worldwide. Currently she partecipates to different research and educational projects in preventive and landscape archaeology of DiSCI as remote sensing specialist.

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Sorin Hermon (M) Associate professor leads the Digital Cultural Heritage research group at STARC, The Cyprus Institute, which focuses its scientific activities on two convergent fields: 3D approaches to the study of the past and big data for knowledge repositories. He is director of STARLAB, a mobile laboratory for Heritage Science, including instrumentation for non-invasive chemical-physical measurements, 3D documentation, technical imaging and remote sensing. The mobile lab provides scientific expertise to archaeological excavations in Cyprus and the region, art museums and heritage collections. He obtained competitive grants from various EU programs, most recent ones being EMAP, ARIADNE and GRAVITATE. Sorin is author of one book, editor of several books and peer-reviewed conference proceedings and author of more than 50 scientific papers.

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Dr. Praveen Maghelal’s is as Associate Professor of Sustainable Critical Infrastructure in the Department of Engineering Systems and Management at the Masdar Institute. He has an interdisciplinary educational and professional background in Civil Engineering, Architecture, and Urban Planning. He obtained his doctorate in Urban and Regional Sciences from the Texas A&M University and has taught at the Florida Atlantic University and the University of North Texas before joining Masdar Institute (now Khalifa University of Science and Technology) in 2015. His research focuses on planning sustainable communities with sustainable modes of transportation. His work investigates the role of built-environment on sustainable and active modes of transportation, relationship of land use and transportation on healthy communities, and the relationship of land use on sustainable modes of transportation such as walking, biking, and public transportation. He has published in top journals in planning such as the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Transportation Research D, and his co-authored article won the Best Article Award from the Journal of American Planning Association.

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Dr. Evanthia Tsantini is an experienced researcher with multi and interdisciplinary training and she is specialized in more than 20 research general approaches and methodologies: Conservation of Cultural Heritage; Archaeology and Archaeometry; Ethnoarchaeology and Ethnoarchaeometry; Raw materials prospection; Provenance of Archaeological Materials; Chemical Characterization by X-Ray Fluorescence; Chemical Characterization by Inductively Coupled Plasma; Mineralogical Characterization by X-Ray Diffraction; Petrographic characterization by thin section; Granulometrical characterization of raw materials (clays and clay mortars, mud bricks, soil and earth); Microstructure Characterization by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM); Microanalysis by SEM; Characterization of elements with high mean atomic numbers by SEM and back scattering detector; Atterberg’s limits experimental calculation; Linear shrinkage experimental calculation; Mechanical properties on archaeological ceramics; Thermal properties; Referring experiments with archaeological ceramics; Technology of Ancient Materials; Statistical Techniques applied to chemical study. She has obtained two bachelor degrees and she holds a PgD degree in History. She has 186 months of pre and postdoctoral research experience; fellowships and contracts from which 98 months are postdoctoral. . She has She have published 41 works: 12 indexed articles from which 8 has impact factor; 15 articles in peer- reviewed volumes, 10 are book chapters, two books and one is in press (4 invited speeches). She has contributed to 31 conferences, symposiums and workshops and she has four invited speeches. She is a referee for national and international scientific journals. She has been a scientific member in 39 research projects six of which were European. She has an experience in the co-direction and direction of R&D&I projects funded in competitive tenders by public or private bodies as a Principal Investigator, since she has co-directed two projects and directed one as Principal Investigator.

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Mohamed Rashed is a professor of geophysics at the Water Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and the Geology Department, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt. In 2003, Mohamed Rashed got his PhD degree at Osaka City University, Japan and has a long experience in teaching and research in several fieldsof geosciences, especially, theoretical and applied geophysics. Rashed hasdeveloped several new algorithms for processing seismic and ground penetrating radar (GPR) data in addition to introducing a new seismic source for shallow high resolution seismic exploration.

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Takashi Suzuki was borne September 19, 1959, at Ohmachi-city, Nagano, Japan where his father worked as a civil engineer. He was educated in Tokyo from an elementary school to Toyama high-school at Shinjuku. He entered to Hitotsubashi University, majored economics, and went to the master program of its graduate school. In 1987, He entered to the department of economics, the University of Rochester, and obtained his Ph.D in 1992 under the supervision of M. Berliant and L. McKenzie. After coming back to Japan, He taught at Yokohama National University one year and obtained the position of an assistant professor at Meijigakuin University. He was a full professor from 2006 at the same university. He has been sustaining his research interest for general equilibrium theory from his student years at Hitotsubashi, but from 2010 or so, he has been also interested in Political Philosophy, mainly Justice as Fairness of J. Rawls.

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Since 1987 up to present, she is Researcher with the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, (CNR) actually at the Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection (IRPI). After graduating in Geological Science from the University Aldo Moro of Bari in 1977, received a two year (1983-1985) education grant from Regione Puglia to carry on geological surveys and researches about mining activities and lab tests on physical- mechanical characteristics of rocks at the Polytechnic University of Bari. From 2013 to 2015 she has been Head of the CNR- Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection (IRPI) Bari Support Unit. She has been carried on teaching experience at the Polytechnic University of Bari for the Courses of Engineering Geology, Soil Mechanics and Geology. She also has been carrying on Tutor activity for students of University Aldo Moro of Bari about coastal morpho-dynamics and the applications of SAR interferometric measures to landslides and relative changes of the coastline. She is the author and co-author of more than 130 papers published in Symposia Proceedings and national and international journals.

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Marcelo Campos-Vallette was born in Chile in September 5th, 1948. Its actual academic status is Full Professor at the University of Chile. Obtained his PhD at the Université de Bordeaux I in 1981 and postdoctoral during 1983-84 at the University of Toronto. His research area is focused to the Molecular Spectroscopy, developing investigation mainly in Vibrational Spectroscopy, thus publishing around 150 papers in ISI journals. The infrared and Raman techniques were currently used by him in the study of several biological molecular systems, contaminants and today his investigation is centered in the heritage aspects. The identification of pigments and colorants in historical and archaeological samples is being performed by Prof. Campos using additional Raman techniques such as surface enhanced Raman scattering SERS and Shell-Isolated Nanoparticle-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy SHINERS allowing identify and characterize traces of dyes. During 20 years directed doctoral thesis of 10 students and defended around 70 works in international congresses.

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Franco Palla, is an Associate professor of Environmental and Applied Botanical Sciences at the University of Palermo, Italy. He is involved in Academic Courses: Five-Year Degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage and Degree in Biology and Plant Ecology, Biodiversity and Plant biology, Biotechnology. He is the Coordinator of Five-Year Degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage Scientific at University of Palermo (LMR/02, certified professional restorer). He teaches in International Master (II^ level) in “Biology for the knowledge and conservation of cultural heritage” – in University of Roma Tre – Rome, in “Nanotechnology” University of Palermo, and (I^ leve) in “Conservation and Valorization of Cultural Assets” University of Bologna . He is the Coordinator of UNIPA Research Unit - Project PON01_00625, IT@CHA, Italian Technology for Advanced Applications in Cultural Assets. He was in the Expert Working Group, in the Italy-Cambodia Cooperation Project "Training of Cultural Heritage Experts”, University of Palermo - Royal University of Fine Art and Ministry for Culture and Fine Arts, Angkor, Cambodia, was member of APQ Balkan Project – Sub-project MUSA "Microbiology and Microclimate Monitoring in Balkan Museum", Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, Serbia and in the Italy-Syria Cooperation Program for Renovation and Reorganization of Damascus National Museum (Project AIDO) "Biological Analyses and Microclimate Study", Damascus, Syria. He is the head of the research Laboratory of Biology and Biotechnology for Cultural Heritage (LabBBCH) at the Department of Biological, Chemical, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology (STEBICEF) of University of Palermo, focusing his research activity on biodeterioration of cultural asset and isolation of natural molecules with biocide activity, beside novel hydrolyses with potential application in conservation/restoration projects. Currently Prof. Palla is Scientific Consultant for Biological deterioration, in restoration projects regarding archaeological sites, works of art, historic-artistic manifacts. He is Deputy Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage, and involved in the Scientific board of the Book series Education and Research in the Sector of Cultural and Environmental Heritage (MIMESIS Ed., Milan). He is author and co-author of more than 200 publications in national and international scientific journals and congress proceedings, Editor of the book Biology and Biotechnology for Cultural Heritage (Springer) and Coordinator of Scientific - Organizing Committee and Chair in National and International Conference. He was invited speaker at the International Symposium on Biodeterioration and Protection of Cultural Heritage, 2014, Dunhuang- China.

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Doctoral research among the Paiela of the Papua New Guinea highlands, investigating gender, cosmology, social organization, and politics, 1974-78; three months of fieldwork in fall 1993, two months of fieldwork in February and March 1995, seven months of fieldwork and archival research overall from July 1995 to February 1996 among Ipili speakers, including the people of Porgera valley, 10 weeks of fieldwork in Porgera and Paiela in fall 1999, 8 weeks of fieldwork in fall 2000; continuing fieldwork summers 2003 and 2004; consultancy, December 2010. Internet research on gender violence in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu, 2012-2014; 4 months further Porgera-Paiela fieldwork, 2015.

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Martin Sweatman After receiving his BSc in Maths and Physics, and PhD in Theoretical Physics (classical density functional theory), from the University of Bristol, he worked in Industry for several years. He returned to academia as a post-doc at Imperial College, London, in the Chemistry Department where he studied molecular simulation of adsorption. He was then fortunate to gain a lectureship in chemical engineering at the University of Strathclyde in 2004. In 2013 he moved to the University of Edinburgh, as Reader in Chemical Engineering. His research focuses on the interface between chemical physics and chemical engineering, mainly using theoretical and simulation methods to study physical processes at the molecular scale. He have recently become interested in all matters concerning Gobekli Tepe, the Younger Dryas period, and coherent catastrophism, and with his co-author Dimitrios Tsikritsis, recently provided an interpretation of symbolism at Gobekli Tepe.

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Maury Morgenstein is presently a Courtesy Research Associate, Anthropology Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. He taught geoarchaeology at U.C. Berkeley, Near Eastern Studies Department, including the archaeology of fire, advanced ceramics petrography, methods of geochemical provenance, and archaeological site sedimentation and soils development. He was trained at Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University and University of Hawaii Institute of Geophysics as a Deep Sea Geological Oceanographer/Sedimentologist specializing in authigenic mineralization reactions, metallic enrichment deposits (ocean mining) and hydration reactions of volcanic glass (sideromelane). He specializes in provenance of construction materials, lithic artifacts, and ceramics. His research includes the development of new dating tools including volcanic glass instability in anthrosols, provanence of chert tools, and ceramic classification and sourcing using portable EDXRF.

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Felix Moos was educated in Germany, Switzerland, the United States and Japan. He received his MA and Ph.D. in Anthropology and Asian Studies (Far Eastern & Russian Institute) from the University of Washington (Seattle). Currently, he is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Anthropology, The University of Kansas (Lawrence). He has taught, among other institutions, at the universities of Heidelberg (FRG), Tokyo (Todai) Japan, Kasetsart (Thailand), Korea University (ROK) and Durham (UK). He held the Ricketts Chair for Comparative Cultures at the Naval War College (Newport, R.I) and taught at the Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, specializing on military applications of Anthropology. His fieldwork, spanning more than 45 years with a special focus on Applied Anthropology, has concentrated on East, Southeast and South Asia and the Pacific (Micronesia). He served as an advisor to the Office of Micronesian Negotiations. He was a consultant/specialist of the World Bank in Southeast Asia. He has served in various US Government positions, and in the US Armed Forces in Korea. Since 9/11, he intensified his long-standing interest in anthropological applications for national security. From 2005-08, he served as Vice Chair/International of the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE). His most recent (1997-present) fieldwork has focused on the dynamics and dilemma of sociopolitical development and conflicts in Nepal, India and Peru.

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Takashi Suzuki was born in Ohmachi-city, Nagano where my father worked as a civil engineer. He was educated at Tokyo from elementary school to college. He majored in economics at Hitotsubashi University, and obtained M.A and Ph.D. at University of Rochester, U.S.A. He started my teaching career at Meiji-Gakuin University from 1993 where He is now a full professor and teaching micro-economics and political philosophy. His current academic fields are general equilibrium theory and justice as fairness.

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Leno Liberato Mascia was born in Italy where he attended primary and secondary schools up to the age of 19. He graduated in the U.K. taking a first degree in Chemical Technology and then a PhD. He has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Science in recognition for his sustained contribution to scientific research in the field of Polymer Science and Engineering, and has acted as Editor-Europe for the journal Advances in Polymer Technology for nearly 20 years. After graduation he worked as a Research Scientist first at I.C.I. - Plastics Division and then at Raychem - Corporate Technology, holding alternating posts in academic institutions at Aston University and at Loughborough University. He has 5 patents in his name and is the main author of well over 100 publications, having written also 3 books and contributed to chapters in 4 edited books. He has delivered lectures as an invited speaker at more than 20 international conferences. His research activities have evolved from his work in industry and have addressed aspects concerned with property enhancement of polymers through morphology management via innovative processing methods (e.g. Converging-diverging dies for solid state extrusion) or through reactive blending and interpenetrating networking (e.g. L. Mascia, Polymer Compositions, European Patent No. 84305078.2, - 1985). The latter has led to his pioneering work on Polyimide-Silica hybrids by the sol/gel method, which became known as Ceramers, with the view of bridging the temperature performance gap between aromatic polymers and ceramics. He is retired but still contributes to teaching and research for the Master Program in the Department of Materials and has also taken an interest in biodegradable elastomeric products derived from natural rubber, with view of combining his experience on reactive polymer blending with that on organic-inorganic hybrids, which would allow the possibility of introducing labile cross-links for the breakdown of the molecular structure through the action of bacteria. For his leisure, he conducts personal studies on the role of science and mathematics in the design of the artwork of Leonardo da Vinci (an aspect that has hitherto been addressed only vaguely by scholars of Renaissance).

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Francisco Welington de Sousa Lima was doctorate at Physic from Universidade Federal do Ceará (1999). He is currently professor adjunto iv at Universidade Federal do Piauí. He has experience in Physic, focusing on Physics of the Condensed State of Substance, acting on the following subjects: Monte Carlo simulation, critical exponents, network, desordem and ising.

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Alessandra Pagliano, Architect and Ph.D. in Drawing and Survey of Built Environment, since 2016 is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture (DIARC) of Federico II University of Naples. She teaches "Application of descriptive geometry" and "Drawing techniques". She has written extensively on the stage design and the use of perspective illusion: in this field she has produced over the last four years, numerous installations in anamorphosis, aimed at testing the effects of the direct involvement of the observer in the essential interaction with the viewer. The immersive and interactive effect of this prospective space was also applied to degraded urban environments for which contemporary art, participated and low cost, has proved an effective solution to the decades of a state of decay. She is actively involved in the study and restoration of ancient sundials and dissemination of the millennial gnomonics culture, now undergoing of dispersion. Sundials are the graphic evidence of complex astronomical events, constantly occurring on the celestial sphere, at huge distances. To set them, frequently, there was the convergence of various doctrines, from mathematics to physics, geography, cartography, from geometry to art: this multidisciplinary convergence is the evidence of a fervent cultural climate arisen in Europe between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this rich intellectual scenery, several sundials of great artistic and scientific value were built in Italy, in particolar in Campania, but they are not adequately appreciated due to the progressive loss of the related millenary culture of timekeeping by the Sun, erased by the advent of modern watches. Ruined by negligence but also by the inability to carry out adequate restorations, Neapolitan sundials are a precious cultural heritage to urgently be saved, providing actions for both conservation and restoration, but also for the dissemination of their ancient knowledge, that is likely to be disperse definitively, as well as rapidly, in the coming decades.

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Roberta Spallone, Architect and Ph.D. in Drawing and Survey of Architectural Heritage, from 1999 was Assistant Professor, since 2005 is Associate Professor of Drawing at the Politecnico di Torino, Department of Architecture and Design (DAD). Member of the School of Architecture, she teaches in the "Laboratory of Drawing and Survey" and "Digital techniques of representation". Member of the Board of the Doctorate of Architectural and Landscape Heritage, she is responsible of the Ph.D. course "Drawing, survey and modelling for representing architectural and urban heritage". Coordinator of the first year of the bachelor course in Architecture. Awarded with Silver plaque U.I.D. (Unione Italiana per il Disegno) 1997 1st prize for her PhD Thesis. She carries on researches, both theoretical and applied, in the fields of history and criticism of architectural drawing, digital techniques of representation and urban survey. She is author of over an hundred publications including monographs and essays, and selected speaker at many International Congresses.

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Alessandra Capanna is a Researcher and lecturer in Architectural Design in Rome, at the Faculty of Architecture, PhD in Architectural Composition and Theory of Architecture, she discussed the thesis "Strutture Matematiche della Composizione"(1995), concerning the logical paradigms in music and in architecture. Since 1999 to 2001 she joined in LaMA_Laboratorio Multimedia Architecture a structure of the Department of Architecture producing video and other multimedia creations on contemporary architecture and since 2000, as component of QART, Laboratory for the Study of Contemporary Rome, she took part in the drafting of the Carta della qualità della città contemporanea (Chart of Quality for the Contemporary Town) within the framework of the sector studies of the new PRG (Town Development Plan) and conducted the research "School reform and its significance in school regulation and tipology …". Research published in 2013 in the book Edifici per la scuola.

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Jose Antonio Lopez Saez was a graduate in Biology specialist in Botany, Phytochemistry and Palynology, from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in 1989. Doctorate (PhD) in Biology in 1994. He spent two years of post-doctoral research at the Utrecht University (Holland) and at the Laboratoire de Palynologie-Cépam (CNRS, Sophia- Antipolis, France) between 1996 and 1997. Between 1998 to the present he worked as an archaeobotanist at the Laboratorio de Arqueobotánica at the CSIC (Madrid). He have been involved in many research projects across Europe (France, Portugal, Greece, Poland, Spain, Italy, Russia, Gibraltar), Northern Africa (Morocco), Asia (Oman, Syria) and Central and South America (Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Brazil) working on aspects related to prehistoric plant use, anthropisation dynamics and the origin of agriculture. He have also carried out various palaeoecological projects focusing on climatic change and cultural response.

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She obtained a degree in Geology at University of Salamanca, Spain (1988) and a PhD by the University of Valladolid in 2002, with the highest qualification, “Sobresaliente Cum Laude”. At 1989 reached a permanent position as lecturer at University of Valladolid; in 1994 moved to University of Burgos where promoted to Assistant professor in 2008. Since 1996, became director of the Geodinamic Area in the Department. From 2012 to now is also working as Adscrite Scientist at CENIEH (National Research Centre in Human Evolution, Spain). She has been granted by the Spanish Ministry of Educacion y Ciencia, University of Burgos, Royal Society of Chemisty of UK, Charles University (Czech Republic) and the European Science Foundation. From 2004 to 2012, she was a member of the UK Astrobiology Society. From 2006 to 2014 was a member of GeoRaman Scientific Committee. She has participated, as scientific member, in the International Expedition AMASE (Arctic Mars Analogue Svalbard Expedition), during 2004 and 2005. She was co-organizer and collaborator as scientist of the international expedition AdMIREx (Advanced Mobile In situ Raman Expedition), in 2006. She has published more than 75 papers in International journals of recognized prestige and has more than 60 conferences and workshops presentations, some of them as invited talks. She has collaborated and still collaborate with international institutions and Universities, such as University of Bradford, (UK); Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (UK), Center for the Study of Life in the Universe (SETI Institute, USA), University of Aberdeen (UK), British Antarctic Survey (UK), Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), German Aerospace Center (Germany), University of Leeds (UK), Museum of Manchester, University of Edinburgh and Peterborough, all from UK, and also with the Museum of Burgos (Spain) University of Málaga, CSIC and CENIEH (National Center for the Research in Human Evolution), (Spain).

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Marco Lezzerini is graduated in Geological Sciences with first-class honours at University of Pisa (Italy) and attained the qualification of doctor in Earth Sciences (PhD) at the same University, defending a doctoral thesis on Chemical, mineralogical, petrographic characteristics, and physical and mechanical properties of ancient mortars. Currently, he is a researcher in Mineralogy and Petrology applied to Cultural Heritage at Earth Sciences Department of the University of Pisa (DST-UNIPI) and research affiliate to the Applied and Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds Research Area of CNR Pisa (ICCOM-CNR). Since 2005, he is the Head of the Applied Mineralogy Laboratory, DST-UNIPI. He is lecturer in Earth Sciences for Cultural Heritage/Archaeometry and Applied Petrology at Pisa University and referee for several international journals dealing with applied mineralogy and petrology, construction materials, conservation science, archaeology and cultural heritages. He has been partner of national projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture and Education (PRIN 2005: Knowledge of Italian stonepatrimony for valorisation of the resources and for the conservation and recovery of the Cultural Heritage and PRIN Project 2010-11: Minerals-biosphere interaction: environmental and health consequence). Currently, he is participating in the research of the EU Project Horizon 2020: Nanomaterials for conservation of European architectural heritage developed by research on characteristic lithotypes - NANO-CATHEDRAL. His research activity is focused on Material Sciences, Geomaterials in Cultural Heritage, Stone conservation and Archaeometry. He is author and co-author of over 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in international journals.

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Alba P. Santo graduated in Geology at the University of Florence (Italy) in 1985. In 1990 she received her Ph.D. degree in Mineralogy and Petrology. During her Ph.D. she collaborated with the Department of Nuclear Physics of the University of Florence in a research aimed at the application of the Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) technique to the analysis of geological samples. She spent one year at Harvard University (USA) working on isotopic and age determinations of rocks. Dr.Santo is presently employed by the University of Florence as researcher. Her research experience includes geochemical and petrographic studies of rocks. She is currently collaborating with the Department of Nuclear Physics of the University of Florence in a research aimed at the application of IBA (Ion Beam Analyses) techniques (e.g. PIXE, PIGE, RBS) to the analysis of minerals and rock samples and with the IGG (Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources, Italy). She has served as associate editor of the special volume of Mikrochimica Acta “Proceedings of the Florence Workshop-EMAS 2005" and as 2010 Supervisor INVOGE (International Geological MASTER in Volcanology and Geotechnics- Atlantis Programme Cooperations among Italy, France, U.S.A.). She takes lectures since 1991 in Geochemistry and Applied Petrography courses. She is author and co-author of several peer-reviewed scientific papers published in international journals.

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Stanislav Grigoriev is senior researcher of the Institute of History and Archaeology (Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences). He studied at the Chelyabinsk University, with specialization in archaeology of the Bronze Age. From 1985 to 1989 he was research fellow at the University of Chelyabinsk, and since 1989 – at the Institute of History and Archeology. During his scientific career he realized a series of projects in different fields of archaeology, but above all in studies of the Eurasian Bronze Age and archaeometalurgy. The archaeometallurgical studies were based on numerous analyses of ancient slag. He excavated also many archaeological sites: Bronze Age settlements and cemeteries and megalithic monuments. These studies demonstrated that some cultures in the area had Near Eastern origins, which resulted in studies of the Indo-European problem. This stimulated work in Iraqi Kurdistan and a small project about the Ezidian religion and its main temple of Lalish.

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