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Rome
19-21 February 2020
Piero Baglioni is full professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Florence and MIT affiliate. He is a member of several Academies as the European Academy of Sciences, Royal Societies for Sciences Art (Sweden, etc.), and serves in the editorial/advisory board of several international Journals. He is a member of several National, European and International committees for research evaluation and research policies. He was the recipient of several international prizes mainly for his contributions to Conservation of Cultural Heritage and to Soft Matter and Colloid Science innovation. He has authored about 500 scientific publications and 27 patents. His scientific interests focus on Physical Chemistry of soft matter systems, and is a pioneer of the application of soft matter to the conservation of cultural heritage.
Jaromír Beneš is Associate Professor at the University of South Bohemia (USB) in České Budějovice, Czech Republic. He is an archaeologist and archaeobotanists, founder and head of Laboratory of Archaeobotany and Palaeoecology and member of the USB Institute of Archaeology. His focus of interest are the Neolithic period, the origins of agriculture and environmental archaeology. In the field of archaeobotany he focuses on archaeological wood analysis. He is author or co-author of 20 scientific books and 180 papers, head of the Editorial Board of Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica journal and coordinator of the PAPAVER network in archaeobotany and palaeoecology. His current research projects are oriented to agricultural landscapes in Europe (Czech Republic, Northern Macedonia) and Africa (Senegal). Along with his team, he follows a multi-proxy approach in bioarchaeology.
Antonio Doménech-Carbó (Valencia, Spain, 1953) is Professor at the Department of
Analytical Chemistry, University of Valencia (PhD 1989). His research is focused on solid
state electrochemistry, with particular emphasis on the development of electroanalytical
methods for archaeometry, conservation and restoration. For his research in cultural heritage
has received the ‘Demetrio Ribes’ award from the Regional Government of Valencia in 2007
and 2019. He is author of more than 250 articles and several books; amongst them,
Electrochemical Methods in Archeometry, Conservation and Restoration (Springer, 2009),
Electrochemistry of Porous Materials (Taylor & Francis, 2010, Chinese edition, 2018), and
Electrochemistry of immobilized particles and droplets (2nd ed. Springer). Currently, he is a member of the editorial board of ChemTexts (Springer), topical editor of Journal of Solid State
Electrochemistry (Springer) and Periodico di Mineralogia (La Sapienza University) and
reviewer for more than 130 indexed journals.
Antonia Moropoulou is currently Full Professor at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, Director of the NTUA Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, Studies Director of the NTUA Master Program “Protection of Monuments” - Direction “Materials and conservation Interventions” and member of the Administrative Committee of the Technical Chamber of Greece. She has served as NTUA Vice Rector of Academic Affairs (2010-2014) and Vice President of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) (2013-2016). She was elected as Contracted Professor in IUAV University of Venice (1993), Visiting Professor at Princeton University (1995-1996). She is a world class expert in building materials and the preservation of monuments that comprise the World’s Cultural Heritage. She has worked on restoration projects in Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, the Holy Aedicule of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the Medieval City of Rhodes, and other major historical cities' monuments and sites in Greece and the Mediterranean. She has been scientific coordinator of more than 80 National, European and International research competitive programs and author of 5 books, 22 chapters in books, editor of 20 special editions and author of more than 500 scientific publications. In 2012 she was awarded the ‘YPATIA’ Award by the ‘Association of Hellenic Women Scientists’, in 2017 she was honoured the SEFI Fellowship Award and in 2019 with the “Giuseppe Sciacca” International Award, for the prize in Science. She was the Chief Scientific Supervisor of the project for the “Conservation, reinforcement and repair interventions for the rehabilitation of the Holy Aedicule of the Holy Sepulchre in the All-Holy Church of Resurrection in Jerusalem”, which was recently implemented in the framework of the common agreement of the Status Quo Christian Communities, following invitation by the Greek-Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem.
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