Department of Conservation and Restoration, FCT-UNL

REQUIMTE - Associate Laboratory for Green Chemistry

office 217, tel. +351212948300, ext. 11307

email: mgc14606@campus.fct.unl.pt

short CV / research interests:

I started my education on Conservation and Restoration at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology (UNL) specializing in furniture and wooden objects conservation, developing a work foccusing on Chinese lacquered furniture.

After graduating in 2006, I worked with museums, private collectors and antique shops. 

In 2009 I returned to the faculty to pursue my master’s degree in Conservation Science, turning my foccus to 19^th century portuguese oil paintings, with the dissertation “The Study of Lead White Oil Paints: A molecular approach to the whites of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso”.

I am currently a PhD student on Conservation Science at the Department of Conservation and Restoration, within the “Crossing Borders” project, centering in the study of the history, techniques and materials of 19^th and early 20^th century Portuguese painters.

Research interests include art history, study of oil painting techniques, multi-analytical characterisation of painting materials and the study of the degradation of oil paint matrixes.