Paula Nabais Junior Researcher NOVA School for Science and Technology Previous Next All members ​ 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 ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Chongwen Liu PhD student University of California, Los Angeles Previous Next All members Los Angeles, CA, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Team Presenter 2023, Graduate student assistant 2023 Chongwen Liu is a Ph.D. student at the UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Material Culture. His research interests focus on the development of antifouling materials for underwater cultural heritage as well as the analysis of lacquer materials through a multi-analytical approach. In the meantime, he is also learning and seeking opportunities for the possible application of artificial intelligence to assist conservation. AI-assisted classification of microorganism strains on paper-based cultural relics Co-authored with Chenshu Liu and Allison Wall. Read Abstract ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Lukas Simon Group Leader Computational Biology Therapeutics Innovation Center Baylor College of Medicine Previous Next All members Houston, TX, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Poster Presenter 2021 Lukas Simon is the Group leader in Computational Biology at the Therapeutic Innovation Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Simon earned his Ph.D. in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine in 2016 before starting his postdoctoral training at the Institute of Computational Biology at the Helmholtz Research Centre in Munich, where he was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship. After this postdoctoral training, Lukas Simon was an Assistant Professor of Health Informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston in the Center for Precision Health. His research focuses on the development and application of data science to biomedical, molecular data. More specifically, his expertise includes bioinformatic analysis and computational modeling of next generation sequencing data such as (single-cell) RNA-sequencing. Microbiome reveals history of human-interactions in the museum - a pilot project Read Abstract ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Christine Sciacca Associate Curator of European Art, 300-1400 CE The Walters Art Museum Previous Next All members Baltimore, MD, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Steering Committee 2018 Dr. Christine Sciacca received her Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University. Her book publications include, Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance: Painting and Illumination, 1300-1350, Building the Medieval World, and Illuminating Women in the Medieval World. Her current exhibition project at the Walters Art Museum focuses on Ethiopian art. ​ ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Nancy Turner Conservator of Manuscripts The J. Paul Getty Museum Previous Next All members 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. ​ ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

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Each intern will be provided with a $25,000 bursary. Interns have the opportunity to become familiar with some of the complexities of conservation and restoration work, including research, technical examination, and the historic and ethical dimensions of interaction with art and artefacts. Over the course of three to five months, they are paired with various experts from the Gallery’s Restoration and Conservation Laboratory, and follow them in their daily work as observers. They are also introduced to Conservation Science and broader Heritage preservation issues at the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa. Explore Conservation Internship for Broadening Access (CIBA) Deadline Mar 14, 2025 12:00 PM Focused on students from communities currently underrepresented in the museum conservation field, the Conservation Internship for Broadening Access (CIBA) offers opportunities for current or recent undergraduates to learn about museum conservation. During a 10-week summer program, CIBA interns are placed with mentors in a variety of conservation labs throughout the Smithsonian. The program supports interns by offering a stipend and paid housing during the internship. A relocation travel allowance may also be included as part of the internship award. This opportunity is closed for 2024, but is likely to reopen with a March 2025 deadline. Explore Latino Museum Studies Program Undergraduate Internship Deadline Nov 1, 2024 12:00 AM The Latino Museum Studies Program (LMSP) Undergraduate Internship is a museum career pathway program designed to increase hands-on training opportunities for Latina, Latino, and Latinx-identifying undergraduate students interested in art museum careers. The program focuses in non-curatorial museum roles including the areas of conservation, museum education, interpretation, digital culture, collections management, and exhibition design, fabrication and production. 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Isabel Schneider Project Conservator Brooklyn Museum Previous Next All members New York, NY, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Poster Presenter 2023, Graduate student assistant 2023 Isabel Schneider is a recent graduate of the UCLA/ Getty Conservation of Cultural Heritage MA program who recently accepted a project conservator position at the Brooklyn Museum. Previously, she has held conservation internships with the Brooklyn Museum, Arizona State Museum, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Florissant National Monument, and the Israel Antiquities Authority. She has participated in archaeological excavations in Greece and Israel. Previously, she has worked as an artist, teacher, curator, and museum development officer. “Like” for Provenance Research and Conservation Treatment Read Abstract ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Emily Lynch Conservator for Special Collections Columbia University Libraries Previous Next All members New York, NY, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Steering Committee 2023 Emily is currently the Conservator for Special Collections at Columbia University Libraries. She received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in physics and art history and earned her MA from the Conservation Center at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University with a focus in Library and Archive conservation. Emily has held positions at the Morgan Library & Museum, the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, and Harvard Library’s Weissman Preservation Center, in addition to completing internships at several institutions, including the Folger Shakespeare Library, the New-York Historical Society, and the American Museum of Natural History. ​ ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Elizabeth Cleland Curator European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Metropolitan Museum of Art Previous Next All members New York, NY, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2021 At The Met since 2004, Elizabeth Cleland is curator of post-medieval European textiles. She has authored and co-authored numerous books and articles about historic European tapestries. She curated Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance (2017), co-curating Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry (2014) and Art at the Tudor Courts (2022). She studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, receiving her MA and PhD as a British Academy scholar. ​ ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Tuuli Kasso PhD Student Beast2Craft and ArcHives University of Copenhagen Previous Next All members Copenhagen, Denmark MEMBER INFORMATION Team Presenter 2021 ​ ArcHives: Beeswax as a Biomolecular Archive (an exploratory investigation) Read Abstract ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!