Dr. Ioannis Iliopoulos is Professor of Geology at the University of Patras and Director of the University’s Museum of Science and Technology. With a PhD in Metamorphic Petrology, he has developed extensive expertise in the mineralogical, petrographic, geochemical, and spectroscopic analysis of archaeological and geological materials. He has received the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute Research Award (Colgate University, USA) and previously held a research appointment at the University of Palermo within the European GEOPRO project. He is an affiliated researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Barcelona and a member of the Sino-Hellenic Academic Project. Since 2024, he has served as General Secretary of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry. His research focuses on the provenance, technology, and resource exploitation of ceramics, stones, clays, and other archaeomaterials across the Mediterranean and Latin America, supported by more than 30 international collaborative projects. He is also the local curator for mineral, rock, and clay collections under the DiSSCo research infrastructure. His work has produced over 55 peer-reviewed articles, numerous book chapters, and 130+ conference contributions (h-index: 15).