Professor Dr. Bernhard Schulz is faculty at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg in Saxony, Germany, and lecturer for Petrology at the Division of Economic Geology and Petrology. He operates a laboratory for SEM Automated Mineralogy with application for research in mineral resources and processing, and an electron probe microanalyser. His further research interests are metamorphic and igneous rocks enclosing Th–U–Pb monazite dating and geothermobarometry in Paleozoic and Proterozoic orogens. A major part of the scientific work concentrated on the Variscan Orogeny in Europe and the pre-Mesozoic basement in the Eastern Alps. In 1990, he received the Hermann-Credner Award of the Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft.