Vana Orfanou, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich, Schellingstrasse 12, 80799 Munich, +49 (0)89-2180-5360;
Vana’s research focuses on studying past technologies through the analytical examination of archaeomaterials, with a particular emphasis on archaeometallurgy. She has worked with materials spanning a wide chronological and geographical scope, from the Bronze Age to Medieval times, across northern and southeastern Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, and western Asia. Much of Vana’s work has dealt with materials from Greece, which has led to a close association with the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry (HSA). Since its founding in 1982, the HSA has been the largest professional association of archaeological scientists in Greece, with members both within and outside Greece. The HSA has also actively supported the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences since its foundation in 2009.
Professor Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Military Rd., Lismore, New South Wales, 2480, Australia;
Renaud Joannes-Boyau is Professor of Geochronology and (Archaeo)geochemistry at the Faculty of Science at Southern Cross University (https://researchportal.scu.
Marcela Sepúlveda, Associate Professor Escuela de Antropología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Campus San Joaquin, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, 2° piso, Macul, Santiago- Chile & Associate Researcher UMR8096 ArchAm (CNRS-Paris 1), France;
Marcela Sepúlveda is archaeologist and Associate Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research concerned, since more than 15 years and from an interdisciplinary perspective (archaeology, anthropology, art history, chemistry, geology) with a strong archaeometric component and the physical-chemical characterization of materials, the materiality of art and color technology to specify the material practices and immaterial knowledge handled in the past with respect to the obtaining, production, consumption and circulation of mineral pigments. She conducted investigations in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, as well as in other regions of the country (semi-arid north and Patagonia) and neighbouring countries (Peru, Argentina), in the framework of several ongoing collaborative projects. Her research included several analytical techniques (SEM-EDS, XRF, DRX, Raman spectroscopy, between others) and prioritized in situ analyses. Sepúlveda was the SAS delegate to the VIII Congreso Nacional de Arqueometría (Argentina) in 2021. In 2022, she will serve as the SAS delegate to the combined conference of the Scientific Committees of the Latin American Congress of Archeometry and the Latin American Symposium on Physical and Chemical Methods in Archeology, Art and Conservation of Cultural Heritage.