Carmela Vaccaro is an Associate Professor of Mining Georesources and Mineralogical Petrographical Applications to Environment and Cultural Heritage at the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Ferrara University. She is involved in research regarding the petrology/petrography of magmatic associations and research activities in applied geochemistry and applied petrography, including (a) archaeometric studies for characterizing building materials and damaging products to define the provenance of the raw materials and investigate possible restoration actions; (b) projects on desertification problems in the Mediterranean area and the evaluation of water quality; (c) projects related to the chemical–mineralogical characterization of soils and fluvial sediments; (d) projects on food traceability.