**About the Editor**

**Diego Tamburini**—Scientist: Polymers and Modern Organic Materials - is an analytical chemist by training and obtained his PhD in Chemistry and Materials Science from the University of Pisa in 2015 with a thesis on the evaluation of the degradation state of archaeological wood by analytical pyrolysis couple to gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. He joined the Department of Scientific Research of the British Museum in 2016 with an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship focusing on the application of liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry to the identification of natural dyes in historical and archaeological textiles. His main project focused on the palette of Asian dyes used in the Dunhuang (China) textiles of the Sir Aurel Stein collection at the British Museum. In 2020, he moved to the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution) as a Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow with a project focused on the dye analysis of Central Asian 19th-century ikat textiles. After a 6-month Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS - Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago), he joined the British Museum again in 2021 in the role of Scientist: Polymers and Modern Organic Materials. His main responsibility is to answer questions about the origin, technology and stability of natural and synthetic polymers as well as other organic materials in the collection mostly using mass spectrometric techniques.
