M. Pilar Lapuente Mercadal, BSc and PhD in Geology, University of Zaragoza (Unizar), Spain, in 1983 and 1991. Assistant lecturer: crystallography and mineralogy (1989-1994); petrology and geochemistry (1995-1999). Full Lecturer: petrology and geochemistry since 1999, teaching igneous and metamorphic petrology and industrial minerals and rocks at the Earth Sciences Faculty of Unizar. Post-doctoral posts in several British institutions (October 1991-December 1992) were awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. Spanish Mineralogical Society Award for young scientists (1994) for her scientific contribution in the applied mineralogical field, developed at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology, Oxford University. She has participated in several national and international research projects on stone heritage, directed several doctoral theses and published more than one hundred papers. She was a pioneer in Spain, studying the main Hispanic quarries and their stone identification in archaeological pieces exhibited at the most important public museums. She is currently an elected member of the Executive Committee of ASMOSIA (association for the study of marble and other stones used in antiquity), an ordinary member of several scientific societies, part of the editorial committee of Archaeometry, Marmora, and a reviewer for several indexed journals.