Quaternary International Editorial Team Update

Dear Quaternary International community,

At the end of October 2025, Quaternary International underwent a renewal of the Associate Editorial Team. So, five of the former Associate Editors reached the end of the six-year term: Patrick Roberts (Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany), Marian Berihuete Azorín (Autonomous University of Barcelona Pre-history Department, Barcelona, Spain), Hema Achyuthan (Anna University, Chennai, India), Qingzhen Hao (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) and Jan-Berend Stuut (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands) are going to leave the Editorial team.

We met together in 2019 at INQUA Dublin, when Thijs van Kolfschoten was looking for a new Editorial Team and a new editorial policy for Quaternary International. At that time, the team also included Andrea Zerboni (Department of Geosciences, University of Milan, Italy), Alexander Francke (School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Adelaide University, Australia) and Jule Xiao (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China); they had left much earlier their positions for various reasons, and I am still very grateful for their contributions to the Journal.

These have been six years during which the Editors have spent their time devoting a huge effort to managing the editorial workflow with great scientific and human competence, and above all, with genuine and spontaneous empathy in serving our INQUA community by ensuring the high scientific quality of the published research.

During these six years, we have also faced and shared ups and downs, but the invaluable work they did, has demonstrated the determination to overcome challenges and to face the changes and new solutions that have arisen along the trip.

I want to sincerely thank again each of you, Patrick, Hema, Marian, Qingzhen and Jan-Berend for your dedication, professionalism, and collaboration.

This was an outstanding team, and I feel honoured and pleased to be part of such a team. I hope that we will cross and meet again at future INQUA and scientific events, and I wish you all the best, of course for your profession but mainly for your life and the lives of your beloved ones.

Pierluigi Pieruccini
Editor in Chief
Quaternary International