Eric Lichtfouse is a professor at the Xi’an Jiaotong University. He has invented carbon-13 dating, a molecular-level method allowing to study of the dynamics of organic compounds in temporal pools of complex environmental media. He has discovered temporal pools of individual substances in complex media such as soils. He is a chief editor and founder of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters. He is the author of the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals, which includes a new writing tool, the microarticle, allowing to identify results novelty. He has awards in analytical chemistry and scientific editing.