**About the Editor**

**Ioannis Liritzis** (www.liritzis.eu) is a professor of archaeometry, paleoenvironment and cultural heritage at the Institute of Capital Civilization and Cultural Heritage at Henan University, China. He specializes in the natural sciences, archaeology and cultural heritage, although, during his career, he has conducted research on a range of multidisciplinary fields. Amongst his innovative research projects are surface luminescence dating, and obsidian hydration dating. He has made contributions are in the interdisciplinary fields of geophysics, astronomy, archaeoastronomy, digital cultural heritage, palaeoclimatic variations, seismic periodicities, historical auroral records, Holocene climates, and chronological methods in the quaternary (U-Th). He is the initiator and Co-PI of the Sino-Hellenic academic project, and is currently developing projects focused on the role of sustainability in archaeometrical results, with case studies in Greek and Yellow River cultural remains. He worked for the Ministry of Culture, and the Academy of Athens, Greece. Ioannis has a BSc from Patras University, and earned his PhD from Edinburgh University (Physics Dept.), with graduate studies at McMaster University..
