Dr. Eric Lichtfouse is professor of environmental chemistry and scientific writing at Aix Marseille University and Xi’an Jiaotong University, and Chief Editor and co-founder of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters. He has invented carbon-13 dating following the discovery of various temporal pools of a single individual organic substance in soils. He has published the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factors, which includes a new tool – the Micro-Article - to identify the novelty of research results. He got the analytical chemistry prize from the French Chemical Society, the grand prize of the Universities of Nancy and Metz, and a journal citation award by the Essential Indicators. He is world XTerra vice-champion and ITU cross triathlon world bronze medal in age category.