Staff

Director of Organisational Unit (UOS) Ravenna of Department of Chemistry "Giacomo Ciamician" and Head of the Microchemistry and Microscopy Art Diagnostic Laboratory (M2ADL) 

He has devoted all his career to science for conservation and coordinated many national and international project among which the establishment in 1998 of the Xi’an Centre for the Restoration of Cultural Relics in China (1995-1998), the CURRIC project aimed at developing curricula for post-graduate education in science for conservation (2000-2003) and the first European PhD in Science for conservation (EPISCON project, Marie-Curie, VI Framework Programme (2005-2009).

Author of numerous scientific papers published within national and international journals. His main research interest and expertise deal with the application of advanced molecular spectroscopies (FTIR and Raman) to the study of paintings and metal alloys.

Publications

Publications

Publications

Lucrezia Gatti has a BSc and MSc in Conservation and Diagnostic of Cultural Heritage (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy), and a Ph.D. in Chemistry for the Environment and Cultural Heritage (University of Bologna, Italy). She is currently a postDoc researcher at the University of Bologna, Italy. Her research interests focus on the development of analytical protocols combined with data-processing approaches for artistic and archaeological materials.
In particular, she uses spectroscopic, immunochemical, chromatographic, and mass spectrometric approaches for the characterization and investigation of artistic and archaeological remains (bones and teeth).

Zelan Li has a BSc in Technologies and Diagnostics for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage and a MSc in Science for the Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Heritage both from the University of Bologna, Italy. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Bologna. Her research is centred around the innovative application of spectroscopic and hyperspectral imaging techniques, combined with advanced chemometrics data processing, for the analysis and characterisation of cultural heritage materials.

Francesca Ramacciotti  is a post-doc researcher at the Chemistry Department “G. Ciamician” of the University of Bologna. From 2019 to 2023 she was a PhD student in Environmental and Cultural Heritage at the University of Bologna. Her main research focus was on the development and testing of micro and nano-structured materials for the cleaning of works of art. Specifically, the methods she developed aimed at removing aged varnish from paintings and spray paint over-paintings from contemporary mural paintings. She is currently involved in the European project GoGreen focusing on the development of sustainable materials for cleaning artworks that will have an equal or greater effect than traditional materials that are more harmful to the environment. Part of this process includes the development of analytical protocols to assess the effects of their innovative treatments.

E.C. has an MSc in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Bologna, Italy. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bologna, Italy. His research interests focus on the characterization of artistic materials using spectroscopic and hyperspectral imaging techniques.

Research fellow at the Department of Chemistry G. Ciamician of the University of Bologna, at the laboratorъ of Microchemistry and Microscopy of Cultural Heritage (M2ADL) of the Ravenna Campus.

Giulia is currently collaborating on the project "GoGreen”, with the aim of developing green, reproducible and micro-invasive cleaning methods for street art works.

Demian has been a research fellow at the Department of Chemistry G. Ciamician, University of Bologna, since April 2024. Research interests include vibrational spectroscopy, multivariate data analysis, archaeometry and the development and evaluation of green and innovative materials for the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage.