Dr. Nadia Morin-Crini is an analytical chemist at the University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France. Her research interests include the extraction and analyze of chemicals from various solid and liquid environmental matrices. She is responsible for a technological platform for the study of old and present environments. She has published more than 130 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Dr. Eric Lichtfouse is a professor of environmental chemistry and scientific communication at Aix-Marseille University, France and Xi'an Jiaoting University, China. He has invented carbon-13 dating based on the discovery of temporal pools of organic molecules in soils. He is Chief Editor and co-founder of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters, and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews and Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World. He has published the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals.