Prof. Barry Cooper is a geologist who gained a Master of Science from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 1972, a Doctorate of Philosophy from Ohio State University, USA, in 1974 and a Graduate Management Qualification from the Australian Graduate School of Management (University of New South Wales) in 1992.Prof. Cooper has made significant contributions to geological research, mineral industry development and mineral sustainability through 45 years of employment in the earth sciences coupled with senior management, administration and policy development within Government with linkages to associated industries, universities and NGOs. He retired from the Geological Survey of South Australia in 2009 and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia.Dr. Marianne Klemun is professor of Modern History at the University of Vienna in Austria. Dr. Klemun obtained an MA in German Language and Literature, History and Teaching at this University, where she also studied Biology, Botany and Geology. She has been the secretary general of the INHIGEO since 2016 and is the director of the History of Science Group at the University of Vienna. Dr. Klemun is also elected member of the International Commission on the History Geological Sciences INHIGEO (since 2004) and in the last decade she served as a board member of the Austrian Society for History of Science. Dr. Ezio Vaccari is a full professor of History of Science and Technology since 2006 at the department of Theory and Application of Science, at the University of Insubria in Italy. He graduated in Letters at the University of Florence in 1989 and obtained a Ph.D. in History of Science from the University of Bari in 1996. Between 1990 and 1998 he was awarded with research fellowships in Germany (Universität Rostock and Bergakademie Freiberg), Ireland (Trinity College, Dublin), Austria (Geologische Bundesanstalt, Wien) and France (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie - CNRS, Paris). In 1996 Dr. Vaccari was appointed 'Resident Fellow' for one year at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology (MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA).
