Vincenzo Palleschi is a physicist, Research Director at the Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds, and Head of the Applied and Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory at Research Area of CNR in Pisa (Italy). He is a world-renowned expert in LIBS. Moreover, he has experience in x-ray fluorescence analysis, micro-Raman spectroscopy, multispectral imaging, 3D photogrammetry, and chemometrics. He has published more than 250 papers; his h-index is 48 (source: Scopus). He was the coordinator of several national and international projects funded by governmental agencies and industry. In 2012, he obtained his qualification as Full Professor in the Experimental Physics of Matter.