Carolina Mallol is an independent senior researcher in Geoarchaeology, professor of Prehistory and director of the AMBILAB-IUBO at University of La Laguna. She is the leader of pioneering research on charred organic matter in archaeological sediment at microscopic and molecular scales. C. Mallol’s academic background is international and includes undergraduate education at Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain and Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain (BA in 1996), graduate education at Harvard University, USA (MA in 2001 and PhD in 2004), postdocs at CNRS, France (Marie Curie IEF 2005-2007) and Universidad de La Laguna, Spain (Juan de La Cierva and Ramón y Cajal, 2008-2018), and professorship at Universidad de La Laguna, Spain (2019). Archaeological fieldwork has been prioritary throughout her career in Archaeology and she is currently director of excavations at three Middle Palaeolithic sites in Alicante, Spain: El Salt and Abric del Pastor. C. Mallol is a specialist in archaeological soil micromorphology, with an academic track record of 60 indexed articles, 10 book chapters and 2 encyclopedia entries in 2020. She is a member of the Geoarchaeology Journal editorial board and vice-president of the UISPP.