Stefano Pagnotta is an Earth Scientist and Mineralogist and currently serves as Adjunct Professor of Mineralogy and Techniques and Technologies of Diagnostics at the Faculty of Restoration of the Accademia di Belle Arti dell’Aquila (Academy of Fine Arts of L’Aquila), Italy. He holds a degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage with a technical-diagnostic specialization, a Master’s degree in Archaeology from the University of Pisa, with a thesis at the interface between Prehistory and Archaeometry, and a PhD in Earth Sciences from the joint doctoral program of the Universities of Florence, Pisa, and Siena. His research focuses on geomaterials, materials characterization, archaeometry, spectroscopy, imaging technologies, and data-driven analytical methods, with expertise in LIBS and Micro-LIBS, XRF, XRD, Raman spectroscopy, optical microscopy, multispectral imaging, and photogrammetry. He has authored 98 peer-reviewed publications (HI-26) and serves as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Imaging and as an Editorial Board Member of Minerals.