Paolo Fulignati is a researcher at the Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Pisa (Italy). He received a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Pisa in 1999. He has been working at the Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Pisa, as a researcher since 2002, teaching Geochemistry Applied to Geothermics, and Geothermics. His research interests have always been addressed to the petrology and geochemistry of "active" and "fossil" hydrothermal and magmatic-hydrothermal systems and the behavior of chalcophile elements in these environments, through a combination of field-based and mineralogical and geochemical methods (stable isotopes, trace elements, and fluid and melt inclusion investigations).