Biography

Eva Mariasole Angelin holds a bachelor in Science and Technology for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (2012) and a master degree in Sciences for Conservation and Restoration (2015), University of Parma (Italy). Her MSc thesis focused on the study of the lightfastness of transparent polymeric materials used in art conservation and was supervised by Marcello Picollo. Her main research interests are colourimetry and conservation of plastics applying multi-analytical approaches; implementing non-destructive analytical techniques such as UV-Vis-NIR and Raman spectroscopies. Since 2016 she is CORES PhD student in Conservation Science in DCR/FCT-UNL, with a doctoral project in collaboration with IFAC-CNR and IFN-CNR (Italy). Her doctoral project focuses on the discolouration of plastic artefacts with the development of suitable analytical methods to identify colourants and to study their degradation mechanisms. This will support the development of better-informed conservation strategies of plastic artefacts preserving the colours of the 20th-21st centuries.