c04a06cd-e493-4a2b-9740-d6c227be7921 Lauren Dalecky PhD Student École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Team Presenter Oil paints from Simon Hantaï's studio: a multidisciplinary glimpse at the most creative periods of his artistic life Co-authored with Molly Warnock. Read the Abstract. Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

51530926-3419-4260-928a-5ba659a3734d Lynn Lee Senior Conservation Scientist M+ Museum for Visual Culture, Hong Kong Hong Kong Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Team Presenter A multimodal approach to the study of human-derived materials in contemporary artwork Co-authored with Chan Oi Yan Michelle, Alessandra Guarascio and Marc Walton. Read the Abstract. Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

dda1f54c-2a11-4591-b0d6-85187d92dac7 Aniko Bezur Wallace S. Wilson Director of Scientific Research Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Yale University West Haven, CT 06516, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Aniko Bezur is the Wallace S. Wilson Director of theTechnical Studies Laboratory at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Decoding the materiality of objects in Yale’s museums and the library is at the heart of their activities and expertise, carrying out materials analysis to address questions related to objects in Yale’s collections which emerge during their scholarly study, conservation, and during their use in teaching and exhibition. She oversees a research group that includes scientists and a conservator. A key mandate of her position is to increase our capacity to characterize materials by improving our capacity to use existing analytical tools and data analysis; by researching and advocating the purchase of new instrumentation; and by developing new instrumentation or tools and analytical methodologies. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Team Presenter Extracting Stories from DNA preserved by 19th century Americana Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

b452f7a8-8a31-461b-a4a8-e7590208136d Sarah Guérin Assistant Professor History of Art Department University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Sarah Guérin is a medieval art historian whose research focuses on ivory carvings from around the Mediterranean world. Some of the questions she has addressed concern materiality, notably inter-regional trade networks across the medieval world system, as well as technique, facture, and function in both liturgy and devotion. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

b6e1c931-00aa-4692-93e4-71e686a0848e Nicole Passeroti Objects Conservator, Program Associate The UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Los Angeles, CA, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

16a6c6ee-dd30-4d69-a9dd-3e0677ab75b6 Gunnar Heydenreich Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences Technical University Cologne Cologne, Germany Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Dr. Gunnar Heydenreich is Professor for Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences / TH Köln. He studied paintings conservation and was awarded a Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art. From 1995 to 2009 he was head of paintings conservation at the Restaurierungszentrum in Düsseldorf. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

94c30bdb-ac88-4135-9401-54bd6b577c1c Lara Kaplan Objects Conservator and Affiliated Assistant Professor Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation Winterthur, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Lara Kaplan is an objects conservator at Winterthur Museum and an affiliated assistant professor at the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC). Since 2017, she has led the organic objects portion of WUDPAC’s first-year conservation curriculum and beginning in 2019 came on board as a full-time objects conservator at Winterthur Museum. She earned an M.S. in art conservation from WUDPAC in 2003; interned at the Sheldon Jackson Museum, the Arizona State Museum, and the National Park Service Western Archeological and Conservation Center; and held a post-graduate Mellon Fellowship at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Prior to working at Winterthur, she ran a private conservation practice in Baltimore, Maryland. Ms. Kaplan’s research interests include organic materials, especially skin and leather, the treatment of plastics, and ethical considerations for non-traditional collections. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Team Presenter Overlooked Organics in Decorative Arts: Cataloging Skin-Based, Skeletal, and Hard Keratinous Animal Tissues Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

93d38c6d-0323-4bf3-846e-ed52f62b4bbd Evon Hekkala Assistant Professor Biological Sciences Fordham University New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Evon Hekkala uses ancient and archival genomic methods to identify biological materials and to track their use and meaning at various points in history. Most recently, she is working with natural history collections to uplift Indigenous taxonomies and knowledge systems. Her current research is primarily focused on analyzing genomic data from archival and ancient biomaterials in combination with historical documentary resources to better understand species specific responses to anthropogenically and naturally induced environmental change. She works with communities to explore both formal and colloquial natural histories to decolonize our understanding of sources and meaning of the cultural heritage and natural history objects in museums. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Seminar Series - November 2023 Seminar Series Presenter Decolonizing Crocodylian Collections: Developing a model system for bridging Historical Indigenous and Eurocentric interpretations of culturally and economically important species in museum holdings Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

1703895f-22de-4e6f-95b3-15ed3b534d95 Ashley Coutu Research Fellow Pitt Rivers Museum University of Oxford, UK Oxford, UK Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Ashley Coutu is currently a Research Fellow at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Her background is as an archaeological scientist, and she primarily uses techniques and methods from biology and organic chemistry to understand archaeological materials. Her specialism is the use of stable isotope, ancient DNA, and proteomics analyses as applied to archaeological and museum collections of organic materials. She is particularly interested in method development in relation to the needs of museums for display and the care of objects in terms of their conservation. The geographical focus of her work is sub-Saharan Africa, and therefore most of her research is on the ivory trade, past and present, and the use of ivory as a raw material for crafting objects. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter Life histories of ivory objects in museum collections Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

5f67ee22-ed4e-42d7-8d35-e4b79bedf473 Erma Hermens Professor in Studio Practice and Technical Art History Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Erma Hermens is the Rijksmuseum Professor in studio practice and technical art history at the University of Amsterdam and the Rijksmuseum, Department of Conservation of Science, where she works with interdisciplinary teams, liaising between curators, conservators and scientists, combining art historical and contextual research of objects, their composite materials, and methods of making, with scientific analytical data. She is from March 2021-March 22, Visiting Porfessor at the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities, Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice. Present projects CT-scanning for Art: from Images to Patterns (IMPACT4Art); Imaging, Identification and interpretation of Glass in Paint (I3Glassp); Down to the Ground: Colored grounds in Netherlandish 16th and 17th-century painting. She is presently writing a review report of the field of Technical Art History commissioned by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Steering Committee Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS