[2] He has also been named a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and an Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Zhejiang University in China.
His first significant publication was "L'allume come ignifugo nel periodo Greco-Romano" ("Alum as a fire retardant in the Greco-Roman period"), published in 1978 with Walter Ciusa, in Studi in memoria di Federigo Melis I.
[4] In May 2000, Lorusso served on a scientific committee directing an international conference in Ravenna sponsored by l'Associazione "Il Saggiatore musicale", titled "...Fragmenta ne pereant (Latin: ...that nothing may be lost).
[6] He also established the eleven-volume series "I beni cultur-ali e l'ambiente" ("Cultural heritage and the environment"), and the two-volume "La formazione e la ricerca nel settore dei beni culturali e ambientali" (" Training and research in the cultural and environmental heritage sector").
[7] In 2014, Lorusso was appointed Professor Emeritus of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Zhejiang,[8] and in July 2015, Lorusso was chosen to direct "[a] new Italian research project dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of the statues kept in the Buddhist temple of Qingzhou Longxing" (龍興寺) in Shandong; one of China's 100 major archaeological discoveries in the 20th century.