Elsa Arroyo

is a lecturer in technical art history at the Graduate Program of Art History at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her research focuses on materials and techniques of New Spain’s painting during Colonial times with a special emphasis on works created by artists that travelled to the New World from the Iberian context.

 

Klaas Jan van der Berg

is Senior Conservation Scientist at the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) focusing on historical developments in oil paint in the late 19th C and 20th C. He is also Professor of Conservation Science (Painted Art) at the University of Amsterdam.

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Barbara Berrie

is head of the scientific research department and senior conservation scientist at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. She provides scientific and technical support to all aspects of conservation and preservation of the National Gallery’s collections. She has conducted research and published on new materials for treatment of works of art, degradation of paint, and artists’ materials and methods. A focus of her research is early modern painters’ use of color and pigments.

 

Francesca Bewer

is Research Curator for Conservation and Technical Studies Programs and the director of the Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art at Harvard Art Museums. An expert in the technical study of bronzes and on the history of conservation, she has published extensively on European bronze sculpture of the 16th through 18th centuries.

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Marjolijn Bol

is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University and PI for the ERC-funded project Dynamics of the Durable: A History of Making Things Last in the Visual and Decorative Arts.

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Aviva Burnstock

is Professor of Conservation and head of the Department of Art Conservation & Technology at The Courtauld Institute, London. Her research interests include investigation of the materials and techniques used for painting; characterisation of visual and material changes; the application of new methods for technical study; evaluating methods for conservation practice; and deterioration and conservation issues for modern oil paint and paintings.

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Francesca Casadio

is Associate Vice President and Grainger Executive Director of Conservation and Science at the Art Institute of Chicago. She founded the AIC scientific research laboratory and has been in charge of planning and carrying out scientific research on the collection. She is also the co-founder and co-Director of the Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts.

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Hélène Dubois

is a painting conservator and researcher at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Brussels. She specialised in the treatment and study of European Old Masters and was Head of Project for the conservation of the Ghent Altarpiece from 2016 to 2020. She is currently working on her PhD dissertation on the Material History of the Ghent Altarpiece (Ghent University).

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Joanne Dyer

is a Colour Scientist in the Department of Scientific Research at the British Museum and specialises in the study of colour, colourants and their sources. Trained as photochemist and vibrational spectroscopist, her research interests lie in the interaction between light and the materials encountered on ancient polychrome surfaces and archaeological/historical textiles. Her research uses non-invasive methods and imaging techniques for the study of these coloured surfaces, enabling them to be read and understood in new ways.

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Anne Haack-Christensen

is a painting conservator in charge of research at the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK). She holds a PhD in technical art history from 2017 with the thesis: “Crafts & Colours during the Reign of Christian IV. Trade, availability and usage of painters’ materials 1610-1626”. Her research focuses on historical painting materials and techniques and their impact on the degradation, preservation and appearance of artworks, as well as the historical trade and production of painting materials.

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Gunnar Heydenreich

is Professor for Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences (CICS). His research concerns Early modern art: German painting, Lucas Cranach; Technical Art History/Art Technology: Historical materials and techniques; and Modern and contemporary art.

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Hanna B. Hölling

is Research Professor at Bern University of Applied Sciences/Academy of the Arts and honorary Associate Professor at the University College London. In Bern, she leads two research projects, "Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge" and "Activating Fluxus", funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her research, publications and teaching focus on the art and material culture since the 1960s, including performance, film, video, installation and land and environmental art, as well as on the ethics, aesthetics and philosophy in and of conservation. 

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Gabriela Siracusano

is PhD in Art History (Universidad de Buenos Aires-UBA), specializing in the material dimension of artistic production, from the 16th century to modern days. She is Principal Scientific Researcher at CONICET (National Research Council, Argentina) and director of the Centro MATERIA at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF). Chair Professor at UBA and UNTREF. She´s been Guggenheim Fellow in 2006-2007 and Getty Scholar 2016. Author of many books and articles including El Poder de los Colores (Buenos Aires, FCE, 2005; ALAA award 2006), Pigments and Power in the Andes (London, Archetype, 2011), La Paleta del Espanto (Buenos Aires, Unsamedita, 2011), and in co-edition with Agustina R. Romero, Materia Americana (Buenos Aires, Eduntref, 2020; ALAA and Eleanor Tuft Honorable Mentions).

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Marika Spring

is Head of Science at The National Gallery, London. She has published extensively on scientific investigations of materials and techniques in paintings, and recently headed the IPERION CH project to create a Database of Preparation Layers in European Paintings.

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Claudia Swan

is the Inaugural Mark Steinberg Weil Professor of Art History at Washington University, St. Louis. Her research concerns the history of northern European art, with a focus on the Netherlands in the seventeenth century. Her work on early modern art and visual culture is informed by and contributes to intersections of art history, history of science, material culture studies, and the history of global trade and politics.

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Márcia Vilarigues

is Assistant Professor and Head of the Conservation Department at FCT NOVA, Lisbon. She is also the Director of the Research Unit VICARTE (Glass and Ceramic for the Arts), integrating artists, historian, archeologists, conservators, chemists and material scientists. She works in the field of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage in the area of Technical Art History and Materials Degradation.