**About the Editor**

**Bernhard Schulz** is Associate Professor at the Department of Economic Geology and Petrology at Technische Universitat Bergakademie Freiberg, Saxony, in Germany. Since 2010, he has been acting ¨ head of a laboratory equipped with scanning electron microscopes and electron probe microanalyzers for automated mineralogy. His research interests concern the application of SEM-based automated mineralogical methods for geo- and raw materials. Further areas of interest include metamorphic geology, especially geothermobarometry, and monazite dating. Bernhard Schulz graduated in 1985 with a diploma in geology at TU Clausthal-Zellerfeld in Germany. After his promotion at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany, and various appointments at Geosciences Rennes, ¨ France, and the former Institute of Mineralogy at Wurzburg, Germany, he joined Bergakademie ¨ Freiberg in 2005.

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