Emilia Le Pera is Associate Professor of Geology at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria (Cosenza, Italy). She received her Ph.D. in Sedimentology from the University of Bologna (Italy). Her research focuses on sandstone provenance and all factors related to the production of clastic sediments to reconstruct the history of this, from the initial erosion to the final burial. She has extensive experience on the implications for (paleo)geographic distribution of actualistic and ancient sand and sandstone petrofacies and clastic basin fill. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications on sandstone quantitative provenance analysis. Her field research covers Italy, Spain, Portugal, California, India, Brazil, Switzerland, Norway, the Cape Verde archipelago, the Aeolian archipelago, Azores, and Canarias. She has served as Guest Editor for Special Volumes of the Geological Society of London, Frontiers and Geosciences (MDPI). Currently she is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Palaeogeography, Sedimentologika, Discover Minerals and a former Associate Editor for the Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology and the Journal of Sedimentary Research. She represents Italy as an Ambassador for SEPM (Society Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists) and serves as Vice Chairman of the Professional Committee of Resource Palaeogeography.