People

António Mauricio

António Mauricio

Member of the working group - Associate Professor/Researcher at CEPGIST/IST-UTL

Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Arquitectura e Georecursos, Instituto Superior Técnico, Laboratório de Mineralogia e Petrologia, Pavilhão de Minas, Piso 3, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

António Maurício is a Geoscience Scientist and Professor with about 31 years of experience (18 of post-doctoral activity) in several fields of investigation, mainly involving Water-Rock Interaction in Meteoric-Environments; Cultural Heritage-Environmentally-induced natural materials decay diagnosis and control; 2D Image and Data Analysis and more recently X-Ray Microtomography (3D microscopy).

António João Cruz

Consultant - Professor at the Instituto Politecnico de Tomar

Contact: Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Estrada da Serra 2300-313 Tomar Portugal

António João Cruz holds a PhD in Analytical Chemistry (1993), but since then has developed its activity in research and teaching in the field of the materials of the works of art and its scientific analysis. He also became interested in the problems and the history of conservation and restoration.

Currently he teaches Conservation Science at Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal, and he is a researcher of CITAR – Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Universidade Católica, Porto, Portugal.

Carlos Nodal Monar

Conservator-art historian/Consultant

O Dr. Carlos Nodal é licenciado em Historia da Arte da Universidade Autónoma de Madrid (1993) e post-graduado da Universidade Católica de Porto (2004 e 2007), com uma tese sobre “Policromia del retábulo barroco nel Noroeste de Portugal”. Trabalhou 11 anos como restaurador em Portugal e 5 anos como docente de Restauro e Conservação de Pintura e Escultura na Universidade Católica de Porto. Desde 2007 se transferiu nas Astúrias e se dedicou a investigação no âmbito da Fundação Maria Cristina Masaveu sobre “Policromia de retablos en el Norte de Espana: Astúrias”.

Carolina Sofia Sarrazola Barata

Researcher and Profesor at UCP-CITAR, Porto

Carolina Sofia Sarrazola Barata é bacharel em Conservação e Restauro pelo Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, pós-graduada em Peritagem em Arte/Mobiliário pela Escola Superior de Artes Decorativas da Fundação Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva, mestre em Química Aplicada ao Património pela Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, com dissertação subordinada ao tema "Caracterização de Materiais e de Técnicas de Policromia da Escultura Portuguesa Sobre Madeira de Produção Erudita e de Produção Popular da Época Barroca".

Elsa Filipe de Andrade Murta

Elsa Filipe de Andrade Murta

Member of the working group – Conservator-restorer and head of the Division of Polychrome Sculpture at the Institute of José de Figueiredo

Elsa Murta received a Bachelor in Conservation and Restoration of polychrome sculptures at the Instituto de José de Figueiredo, in Lisbon, in 1986. In2011 she got a Master Degree in Decorative Arts by the Catholic University of Portugal with a specialization on gilded wood decoration (“talha dourada”).

Irina Crina Anca Sandu

Irina Crina Anca Sandu

Principal Investigator - Hercules Laboratory, Evora

Univ. of Évora, Palácio do Vimioso, Largo Marques de Marialva, no 8, 7000-809 Evora

Dr. Irina Sandu is a Conservation Scientist with 16 years of experience (11 of post-doctoral activity) in the field of investigation, diagnosis and authentication of cultural heritage assets. 

Her scientific activity is expressed in 12 monographs, 2 book-chapters, more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings.

Lia Jorge

Researcher (scholarship from FCT-MEC) - member of the working group

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus do Monte da Caparica, 2829-516 Portugal

Lia Jorge has a degree in Art History by Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP), as well as a BA(hons) in Conservation by Camberwell College of Arts – University of the Arts London. She has also attained an MA degree in Museum Studies by ISCTE – IUL, inLisbon.

 Between 2004 and 2005, she has worked as a volunteer at Museu da Música (Lisbon) and at theCummingMuseum(London). She then went on for a conservation internship at the Museu Nacional de Etnologia.

Manuel Pereira

Manuel Pereira

Member of the working group - Assistant Professor/Researcher at CEPGIST/IST-UTL

Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Arquitectura e Georecursos, Instituto Superior Técnico, Laboratório de Mineralogia e Petrologia, Pavilhão de Minas, Piso 3, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

Dr. Manuel Pereira is a Geoscience Scientist and Professor with 22 years of experience (7 of post-doctoral activity) in several fields of investigation, mainly evolving the physical and chemical characterization of natural materials.

Nuno Leal

Nuno Leal

Member of the working group - Researcher at CICEGe/FCT-UNL

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Campus Monte de Caparica 2829-516 Portugal

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Nuno Leal is a Geologist (Speciality Geochemistry) with 20 years of experience in the field of Pure Geology (Petrology and Geochemistry), with Research and Teaching duties in the Geology Department of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.

Rita Veiga

Rita Veiga

Researcher (scholarship from FCT-MEC) - member of the working group

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus do Monte da Caparica, 2829-516 Portugal

Rita Veiga holds a BA (2007) and a MA (2010) in Conservation and Restoration of paintings, delivered by the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP). As part of her master’s, she performed an internship at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid), in the paintings conservation-restoration department; and presented a thesis on the execution techniques and degradation of paintings on tinplate.

Silvia Ferreira

Silvia Ferreira

Consultant - Researcher at the Instituto de História da Arte da FCSH da UNL

Sílvia Ferreira is graduated in Philosophy, has a master degree in Art History and a PhD in the same area of studies. In recent years she has collaborated on several research projects related to wood carved altarpieces in Portugal, mainly in Lisbon, which included courses, seminars, conferences and publications. She also participates in several research projects in the wider context of religious history, particularly in the context of the history of religious orders and brotherhoods of Lisbon from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth centuries.

Solange Muralha

Member of the working group - Researcher at VICARTE: Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes (Glass and Ceramics for the Arts)/FCT-UNL

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Campus Monte de Caparica 2829-516 Portugal

Solange Muralha is a physical-chemist with 7 years of experience in the field of conservation science. She held a PhD in physical-chemistry in 2005 from the University of Lisbon. The same year she started her research in the field of Conservation Science at the University College of London, with special emphasis on Islamic illuminations, and maintained several collaborations with the Institute of Archaeology and the Vitoria and Albert museum. Later on, she joined the Conservation unit at the New University of Lisbon.

Stepanka Kuckova

Stepanka Kuckova

Member of the working group - Researcher at Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Prague

Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague, Technická 3, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic

Dr. Stepanka Kuckova received the doctoral degree in 2006. She has experiences in application of analytical chemistry and biochemistry in the field of cultural heritage. She developed a completely new technique for unambiguous and fast identification of proteinaceous binders in colour layers of artworks using peptide mass mapping.

Tito Busani

Member of the working group - Researcher at CENIMAT/FCT-UNL

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Campus Monte de Caparica 2829-516 Portugal

Dr. Tito Busani earned the degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Polytechnic of Milan (Italy) and a PhD in material science and nanotechnology at University J. Fourier ofGrenoble(France). His major research for the last 12 years was on oxides, ceramics and polymers in the field of transistors and renewable energy applications. He has long experience in the research and application of novel materials, at the nano-and micro-scale, with defined properties and performance characteristics.