SCHOOL OF INFRARED AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIES APPLIED TO CULTURAL HERITAGE

Alessandra Botteon is a researcher at the Institute of Cultural Heritage Sciences (ISPC) of the National Research Council (CNR). Since 2013 she has been working at the Raman spectroscopy laboratory of the Institute’s  headquarters in Milan and carries out research aimed at the development of non-invasive Raman spectroscopy methods for the study of cultural heritage.

Senior researcher at the Institute of Cultural Heritage Sciences (ISPC) of the National Research Council (CNR) and in charge of the Raman spectroscopy laboratory in Milan. Her main competences concern the development of non-invasive methods of Raman spectroscopy and their application to objects of artistic interest.

Giacomo Fiocco is a post-doc researcher and supervisor of research activities at the Arvedi Laboratory of Non-invasive Diagnostics at the University of Pavia. He graduated in 2015 in Sciences and Technologies for Cultural Heritage at the University of Turin and completed his PhD in Chemistry and Materials Sciences at the same university in 2021. He specializes in the study and characterization of cultural heritage materials, in particular those related to historical musical instruments, through non and micro-invasive spectroscopic techniques.

Anna Piccirillo earned her PhD in Chemical Sciences from the University of Turin, Italy (2004). She has been working as Conservation Scientist in the scientific laboratories at Centre for Conservation and Restoration “La Venaria Reale” since 2014, and her main activity is the characterization of artworks materials. In her professional activity, she focuses her research on ancient modern and contemporary materials and on their degradation products. She is well skilled in FTIR spectroscopy, XRF, SEM-EDX and optical microscopy. She is actively involved in some of the research projects promoted by CCR and co-author of scientific publications on scientific journals.

Tommaso Poli is a research technician (EP) at the Chemistry Department of the University of Turin. He has a PhD in Chemical Sciences and has been involved since the Degree Thesis (Industrial Chemistry) in the study and characterization of materials used in the conservation of cultural heritage with particular attention to polymeric materials. He actively collaborates with the Conservation and Restoration Centre “La Venaria Reale”, has participated in several national and international research projects and is the author of numerous scientific publications.

Elena Possenti is a researcher at the Institute of Cultural Heritage Sciences (ISPC) of the National Research Council (CNR). Her line of research concerns the development of new analytical protocols to evaluate the interaction and diffusion of inorganic treatments in complex stone materials. An integral part of the research activity is based on the exploration of the potential of IR vibrational spectroscopy for the reconstruction of high spatial resolution composite maps (ATR-FTIR mapping and imaging) of polychrome micrometric stratigraphies and conservative products in inorganic matrices.

PhD in Chemical Sciences, is Director of the Scientific Laboratories of the Centro Conservazione Restauro “La Venaria Reale”. While having experience with different materials and analytical techniques, her research has focused on the analysis of pigments and dyes in artifacts of archaeological, historical, and artistic significance with Raman and SERS spectroscopies. From 2010 to 2021 she held positions at various museums and universities in the United States, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the City College of the City University of New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and The Art Institute of Chicago. 

Conservation scientist, graduated from the University of Turin in Science for Cultural Heritage, in 2012, and in Materials Science for Cultural Heritage, in 2016. In 2020, she earned a PhD in Cultural Heritage Protection in collaboration with the University of Vigo, Spain. After graduation she had internship experiences at the Getty Conservation Institute (Los Angeles, USA) and the Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España (Madrid, Spain). She currently works as a technician at the University of Turin and at the scientific laboratories of the Conservation and Restoration Center “La Venaria Reale,” where she carries out diagnostic and research activities. In recent years, she has mainly dealt with the issues of graffiti removal from ornamental stones and the conservation of public art, particularly street art works.

Michela Albano is a research technician at the Arvedi Laboratory for Non-Invasive Diagnostics at the University of Pavia in Cremona. She graduated in 2014 in Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage at La Sapienza University of Rome and completed her PhD in Physics at Polytechnic di Milan in 2022. Her expertise is mainly based on the application of spectroscopic and imaging analyses for the characterization of cultural heritage materials, with a focus on wood, metal alloys, inks, and their alteration pattern.