Ludovico Geminiani PhD student Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como, Italy Previous Next Como, Italy MEMBER INFORMATION Poster Presenter 2023 Ludovico Geminiani obtained his Master degree in Chemistry at Università degli Studi dell’Insubria (Como, Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Laura Rampazzi, with the thesis “Analytical study of the materials of Japanese samurai armours”. He is actually attending the Ph.D. Program in Chemical and Environmental Sciences at the same university. His research project is focused on the decay behavior of Japanese artistic materials. He presented at international conferences about Heritage Science and published papers in international peer-review journals. Study on the formation of calcium oxalate on stone materials and on Japanese lacquer Read Abstract ​ All members

Aniko Bezur Wallace S. Wilson Director of Scientific Research Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Yale University Previous Next West Haven, CT 06516, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Team Presenter 2021 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. Extracting Stories from DNA preserved by 19th century Americana Read Abstract ​ All members

Composition Conservation Historical Use Case Studies Bone Bone is made of a matrix of inorganic minerals (calcium and phosphate) and organic proteins. Nearly all protein in bone is collagen proteins, whose role is to form strong cellular structures. Previous Next Back to Materials Coming Soon We need you to develop new content for the ABM website. Please email info@artbiomatters.org or message in Slack if you are interested in building the ABM website.

Samuel Johns PhD Student University of Bristol Previous Next Bristol, UK MEMBER INFORMATION Team Presenter 2021 Samuel is a PhD candidate within the Organic Geochemistry Unit at the University of Bristol. His research seeks to address hypotheses surrounding diachronic and geographical changes in the molecular composition of parchment manuscripts and wax seals by GC/MS and HT-GC/MS; determine the isotopic composition of lipids within parchment and wax seals by GC-TC-IRMS and validate novel compound-specific approaches for radiocarbon dating. ArcHives: Beeswax as a Biomolecular Archive (an exploratory investigation) Read Abstract ​ All members

Composition Conservation Historical Use Case Studies Lacquer Lacquer is a hard coating applied to an object, often for decorative purposes. The materials and techniques of producing lacquer differ greatly by region. Previous Next Back to Materials Coming Soon We need you to develop new content for the ABM website. Please email info@artbiomatters.org or message in Slack if you are interested in building the ABM website.

Paula Nabais Junior Researcher NOVA School for Science and Technology Previous Next ​ MEMBER INFORMATION Team Presenter 2023 ​ Silk, stains and science of a knitted waistcoat: The lab is a foreign country but do they do things differently there? Co-authored with Beatrice Behlen and Jane Malcolm-Davies. Read Abstract ​ All members

Amy Tjiong Associate Conservator American Museum of Natural History Previous Next New York, New York, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Invited Speaker 2021, Steering Committee 2021, Participant 2023 Amy Tjiong is a trained conservator and a museum specialist at the American Museum of Natural History. Her professional interests include researching the properties and uses of cultural heritage materials and working to support community-led museum practices. She holds graduate degrees from New York University and Columbia University, and is currently enrolled in the Anthropology doctoral program at the CUNY Graduate Center. ​ ​ All members

Nancy Turner Conservator of Manuscripts The J. Paul Getty Museum Previous Next Los Angeles, CA, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2018 Nancy Turner (B.A. Art History/Anthropology, Stanford Univ.; M.A. History, UCLA) has been responsible for the care of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of illuminated manuscripts since 1984. She specializes in the conservation treatment of parchment and painted illuminations, and publishes on the materiality of medieval manuscripts based on collaborative scientific research. ​ ​ All members

Hwai-ling Yeh-Lewis Senior Collections Manager Asian Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Previous Next New York, NY, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2021, 2023 Hwai-ling Yeh-Lewis oversees the storage and care of over 37,000 works in the Asian Art collection. This includes all administration procedures related to acquisitions, incoming and outgoing loans, the collection database, exhibitions, and collection inventory. She also manages internal and external requests for access to the collections, and works with the collections team to facilitate gallery installations and implement the highest standards for collection care. She received her MS in education from Indiana University. ​ ​ All members

Stefan Simon Director The Rathgen Research Laboratory The National Museums Berlin Previous Next Berlin, Germany MEMBER INFORMATION Poster Presenter 2021 Stefan Simon is since 2005 Director of the Rathgen Research Laboratory with the National Museums Berlin. Trained as a heritage scientist, Simon earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. He served as a Council Member and Vice President of ICCROM, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property. As Inaugural Director of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Director of the Yale’s Global Microbiome reveals history of human-interactions in the museum - a pilot project Read Abstract ​ All members