Authors

» Martina Bernabale

Martina Bernabale, 26 years old, graduated summa cum laude in Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Italy, with an experimental thesis on the geochemical characterization of obsidian objects for provenience studies from Kurdistan (Iraq).

Now she’s starting a PhD in Earth Sciences with a research project about archaeometric study of the Phoenician-Punic weapons in bronze and iron, coming from the excavations of Mozia.

In 2018 she was awarded by the Sapienza Foundation as Excellent Graduate Student of Academic Year 2016/2017.
Artistic enthusiast, in particular of drawing and painting, which she enjoys in leisure time, she loves dancing, travelling and fashion too.

» Sarah Fortunée Tabbakh - English Version Editor

Born and raised in Lebanon, Sarah moved to Canada to study Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. After obtaining her Bachelor’s, she moved to Florence to follow a Professional Vocational Course in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Goods, specializing in stone materials, and graduated first of her section from the Istituto per l’Arte e il Restauro - Palazzo Spinelli in 2016. She then spent one year in Montreal during which she learned about the restoration and conservation in North America, following courses and conferences, and meeting local restorers and artists, with whom she would exchange experiences, views and ideas.

Back to Florence in 2017, she collaborated with her tutor in restoration projects of architectural elements in the historical center of the city. She moved to Rome a year later to follow a six-month internship in the Laboratory of Conservation of Stone Materials in the Vatican Museums, and has since collaborated with different organizations as an interpreter and translator for restoration projects. Being English and French mothertongue, she obtained her teaching certificates and is currently teaching languages in Rome, all the while collaborating with various institutions on restoration projects.

Her passions include arts - sculpture, architecture, literature and music - and she has a deep interest in history and art history. It is no wonder she has fallen in love with Italy!'

»Silvia Soncin - Guest Author

Silvia, 29 years old, obtained the MSc in Sciences and Technologies for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage with the highest mark (cum laude) at Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy. Her MSc thesis concerned the metaproteomic analysis of human dental calculus from two Middle Bronze Age Italian sites, carried out at The University of York, York, UK.
She is currently a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) candidate at The University of York, applying cutting-edge bioarchaeological techniques to the human remains research. She has developed this interest during her two years paid internship at the Museum of Anthropology “Giuseppe Sergi” (2013-2015) at Sapienza, deepening it during her “Excellent Carieer” project won in 2016 and carried out at the Laboratory of Bioarchaeology at Sapienza.
In 2017, she achieved the “Prominent Graduate” award, a prize reserved to the best 400 students of Sapienza for the 2015-2016 academic year.

» Alessandra Virga - Guest Author

Alessandra, 28 years old, graduated from University La Sapienza, Physics in Rome. Currently, Alessandra is a PhD student and her research is focused on studying the ultrafast dynamics of nanostructured systems by means of nonlinear optical spectroscopy.

In 2016, she was awarded by Fondazione Sapienza for being among the best 400 students graduated in 2015/2016. Interested about cinema, art and music, she loves travelling, reading and good food.

» Rafael Parra - Guest author

Rafael Parra, graduated in mechanical engineering, now is a PhD student in the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). His research regards the application of electrochemical techniques for the conservation and restoration of the metallic heritage.
Rafael collaborates with the University of València and the University of Madrid.

»Valentina Risdonne - Guest author

Valentina Risdonne was born in Italy and studied her B.Sc. at the University of Perugia and M.Sc. at the University of Parma in Science Conservation. She has collaborated with the Victoria and Albert Museum Science Section since 2015. Her research interests included until now lacquer objects, pigments and plaster casts. She is an objects analyst and a plaster conservator. Her current PhD project (AHRC funded) concerns plaster casts as historic objects. She is one of the organisers and convenors of Lasting Impressions, a networking group and conference on the discussion around the replicas. She is representative for the CDP AHRC Students Representative 2017-21 and also Strategic Lead Representative for the PGR Community at Northumbria University 2018/2019.
Contact Valentina at v.risdonne@vam.ac.uk 

View Valentina's Academic profile: http://northumbria-sunderland-cdt.northumbria.ac.uk/Student-Profiles/Valentina-Risdonne and Publications https://vam.academia.edu/ValentinaRisdonne

»Emanuele Dell'Aglio - Guest author

Emanuele, 28 years old, obtained the MSc in Sciences and Technologies for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage with the highest mark (cum laude) at Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy. He is part of a research regarding open-source instrumentation for monitoring the environmental pollution. The conservation of Romans architecture is another topic of his research. Emanuele took part into the jury of the National Price of Scientific Dissemination. He parteciated into the organizing commettee of an Interantional Congress. Emanuele is passionate about culture and conservation. He loves videomaking, partecipating at several events. He was one of the finalists of the National Price "Olimpiadi del Patrimonio".