Biography

Hermine Grigoryan holds five years Licentiate degree in Armenian Philology from the Yerevan State Pedagogical University (2005) and two years Joint Master degree in Archaeometry from a consortium of three institutions, University of Évora, La Sapienza University of Rome, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2015). Her final dissertation in the last degree was covering the study on microstructure of paper and its physical/chemical characteristics as guideline to manufacturing techniques and degradation processes. In-between her academic studies she was involved in both teaching and individual research on manuscripts or archives. Her research methodology is based on interdisciplinary approach of Humanities and Science, combining art historical and material analysis and addressed to better preservation of cultural heritage. In the core of her interest are medieval to early modern illuminated manuscripts as complex objects of text, image and material (parchment or paper, inks and pigments, bindings). Since 2018 she is a PhD fellow of CORES doctoral program in Conservation Science at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of NOVA University of Lisbon. Her project involves professionals from DCR-FCT-UNL, Institute of Medieval studies (IEM-FCSH-UNL), Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and Matenadaran Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (Yerevan).