Carla Machado

PhD Fellow at Dep.Conservation and Restoration, FCT/UNL and VICARTE Research Unit

Department of Conservation and Restoration - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (www.dcr.fct.unl.pt) & Research Unit VICARTE - Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes (www.vicarte.org) at Campus de Caparica 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal

Carla has both Bachelor and Masters degrees in Conservation and Restoration, with specialization in Stained-Glass and Stained-Glass Painting. Her research has been focused on the study of history and techniques of artistic productions, mainly the grisaille technique.

She is currently undertaking PhD studies in Conservation Science with the subject "From the texts to the laboratory - a study for the preservation of historical grisailles". The project concerns the study of grisailles focused on the historical reproductions based on historical written sources; as well as the study of different collections; and the corrosion mechanisms for this material.