ABOUT
What questions can we now ask about heritage resources that we never before thought was possible? This question lies at the core of this LINXS theme. Recent advancements in neutron and X-ray science have opened the door to new applications that bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities, and these powerful techniques can be harnessed to ask central questions about humanity’s history and shared patrimony.
Heritage resources are the culturally and scientifically significant objects, artefacts, and places that modern society has inherited from past generations. This includes both natural resources, such as fossils, sediments, and landscapes, as well as cultural resources including art, archaeological artefacts, and ancient buildings. Heritage resources are of great interest to both academic and public communities, as they can help us reflect on and understand our shared human origins. Synchrotron and neutron techniques have the potential to open new frontiers in the study of heritage resources by providing scientists with the tools needed to powerfully, yet non-invasively, characterise, image, and communicate these critically important and often invaluable materials. This interdisciplinary theme will bring together archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, palaeontologists, geologists, chemists, and physicists to explore the cutting-edge potential of using synchrotron and neutron science to study and understand our shared cultural and natural heritage.
HAPPENING IN THEME
HERITAGE SCIENCE COMMUNITY LIST SIGNUP
CORE GROUP
Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 1: Fieldwork and Collections leader, LINXS Fellow
Björn Nilsson, Head of Department at the University Museum of Bergen, Norway.
Dr Nilsson is a landscape and marine archaeologist with extensive experience in scientific and public strategies for contracting archaeology and cultural heritage. Nilsson is the Head of Department at the University Museum of Bergen. He was previously the scientific coordinator of LUARCH, a novel infrastructure linking archaeology to LU’s scientific laboratories, leader of the VR-funded project ‘Blue Archaeology’.
Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 3: Advancing Analysis leader, LINXS Fellow
Susan Nehzati, Beamline scientist, Diamond Light Source, United Kingdom.
Dr. Nehzati is a chemist and beamline scientist at Diamond Light Source in the United Kingdom. She has expertise in using synchrotron X-ray characterisation methods on complex natural samples to advance the molecular understanding on how living and non-living material have been influenced by their environment. Her research interests span from the present to deep time in the area of biogeochemistry.
Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 4: Quantitative Methods leader, LINXS Fellow
Anna Fedrigo, Imaging Beamline Scientist, Institut Laue-Langevin, France
Dr Fedrigo is a heritage scientist and physicist working as imaging beamline scientist at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France. Her expertise focuses on the application of X-ray and neutron techniques in Heritage Science, spanning from tomography to other non-destructive elemental and compositional techniques for material characterisation. She is currently supervising a project 11 on the investigation of looted metal artefacts from Iran using neutron and lab-based techniques.
LINXS Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 5: Visualisation leader, Guest Researcher at LINXS October 2024, LINXS Fellow
Lucia Mancini, Senior Researcher at the Department of Materials, ZAG (Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Slovenia.
Dr Mancini is a physicist and senior researcher presently working in the Department of Materials of ZAG (Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute) in Ljubljana. Since 1995, she has been working in the field of synchrotron- and lab-based 2D/3D/4D X-ray imaging using non-destructive approaches. During the last 21 years, she has worked as beamline scientist at the Elettra synchrotron in Trieste (Italy) where she acquired extensive experience in the application of X-ray computed tomography techniques to natural and cultural heritage studies.
Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 6: Communication leader, LINXS Fellow
Courtney Nimura, Museum Curator, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK.
Dr Nimura is an archaeologist and museum curator at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK. She specialises in the material culture of the European Bronze and Iron Ages and regularly applies scientific analysis to improve her understanding of the source, composition, and extended biographies of the objects in the Ashmolean’s collection. She is currently the Co-I on a UK Research and Innovation-funded project that explores the use of PIXE analysis on artefacts with pigments.
GUEST RESEARCHERS
LINXS Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 5: Visualisation leader, Guest Researcher at LINXS October 2024, LINXS Fellow
Lucia Mancini, Senior Researcher at the Department of Materials, ZAG (Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Slovenia.
Dr Mancini is a physicist and senior researcher presently working in the Department of Materials of ZAG (Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute) in Ljubljana. Since 1995, she has been working in the field of synchrotron- and lab-based 2D/3D/4D X-ray imaging using non-destructive approaches. During the last 21 years, she has worked as beamline scientist at the Elettra synchrotron in Trieste (Italy) where she acquired extensive experience in the application of X-ray computed tomography techniques to natural and cultural heritage studies.
Guest researcher at LINXS September 2023, LINXS Fellow
Dorian Fuller, Professor of Archaeobotany at University College London, UK.
Dorian Q Fuller is Professor of Archaeobotany at University College London, where he has taught since 2000. He works on past agricultural systems and plant domestication through archaeological research in several regions, including sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, South and Southeast Asia and China. He currently has a research grant on the evolution of vegetative agriculture in Ethiopia. He is author of Trees and Woodlands of South India. Archaeological Perspectives and a co-editor of three books, Far From the Hearth (2019), Archaeology of African Plant Use (2014) and Climates, Landscapes and Civilizations (2012). He completed his PhD on The Emergence of Agricultural Societies in South India (1999) at Cambridge University. He received his BA from Yale University (1995) and grew up in San Francisco, California. Prof Fuller is giving a talk at LINXS in September 2023.
WORKING GROUPS FOR HERITAGE SCIENCE
Heritage WorkING Group 1
Fieldwork and Collections
WG 1 will focus on the work heritage professionals conduct in the field, from archaeological excavations to sampling soils and forensics, to the use of stored material in museum collections.
Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 1: Fieldwork and Collections leader, LINXS Fellow
Björn Nilsson, Head of Department at the University Museum of Bergen, Norway.
Dr Nilsson is a landscape and marine archaeologist with extensive experience in scientific and public strategies for contracting archaeology and cultural heritage. Nilsson is the Head of Department at the University Museum of Bergen. He was previously the scientific coordinator of LUARCH, a novel infrastructure linking archaeology to LU’s scientific laboratories, leader of the VR-funded project ‘Blue Archaeology’.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 1–Fieldwork & Collections, and WG 5–Visualisation, LINXS Fellow
Federico Bernardini, Research Fellow, Department of Humanistic Studies of Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
Dr Bernardini is an archaeologist with extensive experience in the application of scientific methods to archaeology to study and characterise ancient materials and investigate past landscapes. He has got a PhD in Ancient History with Prehistoric specialization from Trieste University in Italy, and research interests include applications of X-ray computed microtomography (microCT) for the 3D non-destructive characterization of archaeological, paleoanthropological and paleontological materials.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 1–Fieldwork & Collections, and WG 2–Conservation, LINXS Fellow
Adam Boethius, Researcher at Historical Osteology, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University, Sweden.
Dr Boethius has a PhD in Archaeology from Lund University. His research interests include studies of how climate and human activities impact archaeological sites.
Heritage Science, Member of WG 1 – Fieldwork & Collections and WG 2 – Conservation LINXS fellow
Mikael Henriksson, Curator, Blekinge Museum, Sweden
Heritage Science, Member of WG 1 – Fieldwork & Collections, LINXS fellow
Peter Jordan, Professor of Archaeology, Lund University, Sweden
Heritage Science, Member of WG 1 – Fieldwork & Collections and WG 2 – Conservation LINXS fellow
Johan Linderholm, Senior Lecturer and Docent, Umeå University
Heritage Science, Member of WG 1 – Fieldwork & Collections, and WG 3 – Advancing Analysis, LINXS Fellow
Amy Styring, Associate Professor in Archaeological Science, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Heritage Science, Member of WG 1 – Fieldwork and Collections, WG 2 – Conservation, WG 3 – Advancing Analysis, and WG 4 – Quantitative Methods, LINXS Fellow
Omid Oudbashi, Senior Lecturer, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Heritage WORKING GROUP 2
Conservation
WG 2 will focus on the issues faced by museum conservators, art historians, and research archaeologists, primarily highlighting non-invasive approaches to cultural heritage. We will explore how neutron and synchrotron techniques can characterise materials in ways that have never before been thought possible.
Heritage Science Core Group leader and WG 2: Conservation leader, LINXS Fellow
Mikael Fauvelle, Researcher at the Archaeology Department, Lund University, Sweden.
Mikael Fauvelle is an archaeologist interested in the origins of complex economic systems. His research focuses on understanding how technological innovation spurred the development of long-distance trade networks and facilitated the formation of systems of social inequality. To map ancient exchange systems, he has employed non-destructive scientific methods including infrared spectrometry, pXRF, and synchrotron XRF. He is currently the director of the Complex Canoes project, which is using new scientific methods including SXRF to study museum collections of Bronze Age sewn plank boats. Other recent projects include research on the origins of money, trade systems in ancient Mesoamerica, and long-term resilience in maritime hunter-gatherer societies.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 2–Conservation, and WG 4–Quantitative methods, LINXS Fellow
Helena Berg, Conservation Scientist and Lecturer in Conservation, Department of Conservation, Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Dr Berg has a PhD in Inorganic chemistry from Uppsala University and a bachelor’s degree in Conservation from University of Gothenburg.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 1–Fieldwork & Collections, and WG 2–Conservation, LINXS Fellow
Adam Boethius, Researcher at Historical Osteology, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University, Sweden.
Dr Boethius has a PhD in Archaeology from Lund University. His research interests include studies of how climate and human activities impact archaeological sites.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 2–Conservation and WG 3–Advancing Analysis, LINXS Fellow
Peter Bray, Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK.
Dr Bray’s research links the chemical analysis of metal objects with human history. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Science Department at the British Museum and lead scientist of the Microwave Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometry (MP-AES) Research Group.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 2–Conservation and WG 4–Quantitative Methods, LINXS Fellow
Elyse Canosa, Project Advisor, Swedish National Heritage Board.
Dr Canosa’s work focuses on developing novel preservation techniques in the fields of corrosion, nanostructured metals, surface science, and cultural heritage. She holds a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Arizona, US and has extensive experience with several analytical techniques such as X-ray fluorescence (XRF), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and Raman spectroscopy.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 2–Conservation, LINXS Fellow
Lovisa Dal, Deputy Museum Director, Lund Historical Museum, Sweden.
Dal is specialized in preserving archaeological materials and dedicated to the conservation of water-drained organic materials, such as wood, leather, textile and wickerwork. She has previously been employed as a conservator at the Vasamuseet where she took part of the research group who examined the acidification in the ship's wood, and used synchrotron sources at Stanford University. Dal is also member of the board of Swedish ICOM (International Council of Museums).
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 2–Conservation, LINXS Fellow
Marei Hacke, Scientist, Department of Conservation, Swedish National Heritage Board.
Heritage Science, Member of WG 2 – Conservation and WG 4 – Quantitative Methods, LINXS fellow
Stephen Hall, Associate professor at the Dept. of Solid Mechanics at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), where he is also in charge of the 4D-Imaging Lab x-ray tomography facility. Came to Sweden in 2011 after moving from Laboratoire 3R in Grenoble, France.
Heritage Science, Member of WG 1 – Fieldwork & Collections and WG 2 – Conservation LINXS fellow
Mikael Henriksson, Curator, Blekinge Museum, Sweden
Heritage Science, Member of WG 1 – Fieldwork & Collections and WG 2 – Conservation LINXS fellow
Johan Linderholm, Senior Lecturer and Docent, Umeå University
Heritage Science, Member of WG 2 – Conservation, and WG 5 – Visualisation, LINXS Fellow
Alberto Viani, Researcher, Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Heritage Science, Member of WG 1 – Fieldwork and Collections, WG 2 – Conservation, WG 3 – Advancing Analysis, and WG 4 – Quantitative Methods, LINXS Fellow
Omid Oudbashi, Senior Lecturer, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Heritage WORKING GROUP 3
Advancing analysis
WG 3 will concentrate on new non-destructive methods and applications, and serve as a hub for the dissemination of cutting-edge analysis. The members include a mix of experts in radiation and heritage sciences, with the aim that heritage specialists will be able to discover and develop new questions they did not know they could probe and to establish an extensive network with experts in radiation sciences.
Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 3: Advancing Analysis leader, LINXS Fellow
Susan Nehzati, Beamline scientist, Diamond Light Source, United Kingdom.
Dr. Nehzati is a chemist and beamline scientist at Diamond Light Source in the United Kingdom. She has expertise in using synchrotron X-ray characterisation methods on complex natural samples to advance the molecular understanding on how living and non-living material have been influenced by their environment. Her research interests span from the present to deep time in the area of biogeochemistry.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 2–Conservation and WG 3–Advancing Analysis, LINXS Fellow
Peter Bray, Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK.
Dr Bray’s research links the chemical analysis of metal objects with human history. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Science Department at the British Museum and lead scientist of the Microwave Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometry (MP-AES) Research Group.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 3–Advancing Analysis, WG 4–Quantitative Methods, and WG 5–Visualisation, LINXS Fellow
Lambert van Eijck, Assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Dr van Eijck uses neutron tomography and neutron scattering for 3D cultural heritage objects. Other methods include gamma spectroscopy and Design and realisation and exploitation of novel instrumentation using non-invasive probes like neutrons.
Heritage Science, Member of WG 3 – Advancing Analysis and WG 6– Communication, LINXS fellow
Mette Løvschal, Professor in Archaeology at Aarhus University & Moesgaard Museum, Denmark
Dr Mette Løvschal is a landscape archaeologist and specialized in questions of land use change and persistence in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Northwestern Europe and how. She is currently leading the ERC-financed research project ANTHEA on the prehistoric anthropogenic heathlands in Northern Europe as a form of shared cultural and natural heritage.
Heritage Science, Member of WG 3 – Advancing Analysis, LINXS fellow
Alessia Nava, Senior Curator, Krapina Neanderthal Anthropological & Casts Collection, Department of Geology and Paleontology, Croatian Natural History Museum
Heritage Science, Member of WG 3 – Advancing Analysis and WG 4 – Quantitative Methods, LINXS Fellow
Rajmund Mokso, senior scientist and professor at the MAX IV Laboratory (Lund University), and honorary professor at the Technical University of Denmark.
Dr Mokso is a specialist in X-ray physics with emphasis on the enhancement of X-ray imaging for biology and material science applications: development and applications of coherent imaging with improved temporal and spatial resolution.
Heritage Science, Member of WG 3 – Advancing Analysis and WG 4 – Quantitative Methods, LINXS Fellow
Antonella Scherillo, Beamline Scientist, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Heritage Science, Member of WG 1 – Fieldwork & Collections, and WG 3 – Advancing Analysis, LINXS Fellow
Amy Styring, Associate Professor in Archaeological Science, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Heritage Science, Member of WG 3 – Advancing Analysis, LINXS Fellow
Kajsa Sigfridsson Clauss, Beamline Scientist at MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Sweden.
Dr Sigfridsson Clauss is a hard X-ray spectroscopist with a multidisciplinary background working as a beamline scientist at the Balder beamline at MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Sweden. The master in molecular biology at Lund University, was followed by a PhD in Chemistry (Molecular Biomimetics) at Uppsala University in the group of Prof. Styring where she focused on the natural photosynthesis in particular the water-splitting intermediates in Photosystem II. X-ray spectroscopy became the main technique after three intense years postdoc, investigating several biocatalyst (enzyme) systems with XAFS and XES at the Department of Experimental Physics, Freie Unviersität Berlin, Germany, in the group of Dr. M. Haumman/Prof. H. Dau. Thereafter, she returned to Lund, to a postdoc position at the XAFS beamline I811, MAX-lab, serving a broad user community. Since 2016, as part of the Balder team, she has been building, commissioning and operating Balder with emphasis on sample environments for radiation sensitive samples (cryostat and microfluidics). She is presently holding a SSF grant for developing a microfluidic flowcell platform (AdaptoCell) for studies of proteins to MAX IV users at Balder/CoSAXS/MicroMAX.
Heritage Science, Member of WG 3 – Advancing Analysis, and WG 4 – Quantitative Methods LINXS Fellow
Dr Schillinger currently works at the Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II), Technische Universität München. He is instrument scientist for the neutron imaging facility ANTARES, the facility with the brightest and best collimated beam world-wide. Burkhard does research in Experimental Physics, Materials Science and Nuclear Physics. Current projects include 'Humidity Transport in Insulations', fossils in irion 'red beds', namely hearing capabilities in Therapsids/pre-mammals, detector design and neutron imaging facility design as advisor for many international faacilities.
Heritage WORKING GROUP 4
Quantitative methods
WG 4 will focus on establishing best practices and methods for quantitative analysis and modelling, cover imaging, elemental and compositional analysis with X-rays and neutrons.
Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 4: Quantitative Methods leader, LINXS Fellow
Anna Fedrigo, Imaging Beamline Scientist, Institut Laue-Langevin, France
Dr Fedrigo is a heritage scientist and physicist working as imaging beamline scientist at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France. Her expertise focuses on the application of X-ray and neutron techniques in Heritage Science, spanning from tomography to other non-destructive elemental and compositional techniques for material characterisation. She is currently supervising a project 11 on the investigation of looted metal artefacts from Iran using neutron and lab-based techniques.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 2–Conservation, and WG 4–Quantitative methods, LINXS Fellow
Helena Berg, Conservation Scientist and Lecturer in Conservation, Department of Conservation, Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Dr Berg has a PhD in Inorganic chemistry from Uppsala University and a bachelor’s degree in Conservation from University of Gothenburg.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 2–Conservation and WG 4–Quantitative Methods, LINXS Fellow
Elyse Canosa, Project Advisor, Swedish National Heritage Board.
Dr Canosa’s work focuses on developing novel preservation techniques in the fields of corrosion, nanostructured metals, surface science, and cultural heritage. She holds a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Arizona, US and has extensive experience with several analytical techniques such as X-ray fluorescence (XRF), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and Raman spectroscopy.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 4–Quantitative Methods, LINXS Fellow
Carlo Cazzaniga, Beamline Scientist, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, UK.
Dr Cazzaniga received his Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Milano Bicocca Italy, in 2014, and is currently working as a beamline scientist at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source. At ISIS, he is responsible for a neutron beam called ChipIr that can be used for irradiation of microelectronics.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 3–Advancing Analysis, WG 4–Quantitative Methods, and WG 5–Visualisation, LINXS Fellow
Lambert van Eijck, Assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Dr van Eijck uses neutron tomography and neutron scattering for 3D cultural heritage objects. Other methods include gamma spectroscopy and Design and realisation and exploitation of novel instrumentation using non-invasive probes like neutrons.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 4–Quantitative Methods, and WG 5–Visualisation, LINXS Fellow
Francesco Grazzi, Senior Researcher, “Nello Carrara” Institute of Applied Physics, Italian National Research Council
Heritage Science, Member of WG 3 – Advancing Analysis and WG 4 – Quantitative Methods, LINXS Fellow
Rajmund Mokso, senior scientist and professor at the MAX IV Laboratory (Lund University), and honorary professor at the Technical University of Denmark.
Dr Mokso is a specialist in X-ray physics with emphasis on the enhancement of X-ray imaging for biology and material science applications: development and applications of coherent imaging with improved temporal and spatial resolution.
Heritage Science, Member of WG 3 – Advancing Analysis and WG 4 – Quantitative Methods, LINXS Fellow
Antonella Scherillo, Beamline Scientist, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Heritage Science, Member of WG 3 – Advancing Analysis, and WG 4 – Quantitative Methods LINXS Fellow
Dr Schillinger currently works at the Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II), Technische Universität München. He is instrument scientist for the neutron imaging facility ANTARES, the facility with the brightest and best collimated beam world-wide. Burkhard does research in Experimental Physics, Materials Science and Nuclear Physics. Current projects include 'Humidity Transport in Insulations', fossils in irion 'red beds', namely hearing capabilities in Therapsids/pre-mammals, detector design and neutron imaging facility design as advisor for many international faacilities.
Heritage Science, Member of WG 1 – Fieldwork and Collections, WG 2 – Conservation, WG 3 – Advancing Analysis, and WG 4 – Quantitative Methods, LINXS Fellow
Omid Oudbashi, Senior Lecturer, Gothenburg University, Sweden
heritage working group 5
Visualisation
WG 5 will focus on the application of advanced and user-friendly 3D and 4D visualization tools to be applied by heritage specialists in fieldwork, archaeological research, digital archiving, communication and didactic, to monitor the modification of archeological sites due to human and natural impacts such as climate change (to preserve the information available at the pristine status).
LINXS Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 5: Visualisation leader, Guest Researcher at LINXS October 2024, LINXS Fellow
Lucia Mancini, Senior Researcher at the Department of Materials, ZAG (Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Slovenia.
Dr Mancini is a physicist and senior researcher presently working in the Department of Materials of ZAG (Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute) in Ljubljana. Since 1995, she has been working in the field of synchrotron- and lab-based 2D/3D/4D X-ray imaging using non-destructive approaches. During the last 21 years, she has worked as beamline scientist at the Elettra synchrotron in Trieste (Italy) where she acquired extensive experience in the application of X-ray computed tomography techniques to natural and cultural heritage studies.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 1–Fieldwork & Collections, and WG 5–Visualisation, LINXS Fellow
Federico Bernardini, Research Fellow, Department of Humanistic Studies of Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
Dr Bernardini is an archaeologist with extensive experience in the application of scientific methods to archaeology to study and characterise ancient materials and investigate past landscapes. He has got a PhD in Ancient History with Prehistoric specialization from Trieste University in Italy, and research interests include applications of X-ray computed microtomography (microCT) for the 3D non-destructive characterization of archaeological, paleoanthropological and paleontological materials.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 5–Visualisation, LINXS Fellow
Nicolo Dell’Unto, Professor of Digital Archaeology and scientific coordinator for the Digital Archaeology Laboratory DARKLab, Lund University, Sweden.
Dr Dell’Unto is a Professor at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund University, and is part of several international projects for 3D documentation and visualisation of archaeological sites through the use of digital techniques. His current research focus on the investigation of new methodologies for 3D documentation, visualisation and analysis of intra-site excavation activities. Dell’Unto is the scientific coordinator of the Laboratory for Digital Archaeology DARKLab. Since August 2019, he has been visiting Professor at the Department of Collection Management at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 3–Advancing Analysis, WG 4–Quantitative Methods, and WG 5–Visualisation, LINXS Fellow
Lambert van Eijck, Assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Dr van Eijck uses neutron tomography and neutron scattering for 3D cultural heritage objects. Other methods include gamma spectroscopy and Design and realisation and exploitation of novel instrumentation using non-invasive probes like neutrons.
Heritage Science Theme: member of WG 4–Quantitative Methods, and WG 5–Visualisation, LINXS Fellow
Francesco Grazzi, Senior Researcher, “Nello Carrara” Institute of Applied Physics, Italian National Research Council
Heritage Science, Member of WG 2 – Conservation and WG 4 – Quantitative Methods, LINXS fellow
Stephen Hall, Associate professor at the Dept. of Solid Mechanics at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), where he is also in charge of the 4D-Imaging Lab x-ray tomography facility. Came to Sweden in 2011 after moving from Laboratoire 3R in Grenoble, France.
Heritage Science, Member of WG 5 – Visualisation, and WG 6 – Communication, LINXS Fellow
Vivi Vajda, Professor and Head of Department of Paleobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History
Heritage Science, Member of WG 5 – Visualisation, LINXS Fellow
Christoph Heinzl, Professor of Cognitive Sensor Systems, University of Passau, Germany
Heritage Science, Member of WG 5 – Visualisation, LINXS Fellow
Emanuel Larsson, Researcher at the Department of Experimental Medical Science at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Sweden
Heritage Science, Member of WG 5 – Visualisation, LINXS Fellow
Jan Sijbers, Professor and Head of the Imec-VisionLAB Department of Physics University of Antwerp, Belgium
Heritage working group 6
Communication
WG 6 has two aims: to share knowledge within academia and to disseminate this knowledge to the wider public. Advances in digital accessibility, such as virtual reality exhibitions online or augmented reality tours on-site, are changing the way we communicate research with the public. This Theme presents an opportunity to capitalise on these growing fields to promote interdisciplinary science and education.
Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 6: Communication leader, LINXS Fellow
Courtney Nimura, Museum Curator, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK.
Dr Nimura is an archaeologist and museum curator at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK. She specialises in the material culture of the European Bronze and Iron Ages and regularly applies scientific analysis to improve her understanding of the source, composition, and extended biographies of the objects in the Ashmolean’s collection. She is currently the Co-I on a UK Research and Innovation-funded project that explores the use of PIXE analysis on artefacts with pigments.
Heritage Science, Member of WG 3 – Advancing Analysis and WG 6– Communication, LINXS fellow
Mette Løvschal, Professor in Archaeology at Aarhus University & Moesgaard Museum, Denmark
Dr Mette Løvschal is a landscape archaeologist and specialized in questions of land use change and persistence in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Northwestern Europe and how. She is currently leading the ERC-financed research project ANTHEA on the prehistoric anthropogenic heathlands in Northern Europe as a form of shared cultural and natural heritage.
Heritage Science, Member of WG 5 – Visualisation, and WG 6 – Communication, LINXS Fellow
Vivi Vajda, Professor and Head of Department of Paleobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History
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Heritage Science Core Group leader and WG 2: Conservation leader, LINXS Fellow
Mikael Fauvelle, Researcher at the Archaeology Department, Lund University, Sweden.
Mikael Fauvelle is an archaeologist interested in the origins of complex economic systems. His research focuses on understanding how technological innovation spurred the development of long-distance trade networks and facilitated the formation of systems of social inequality. To map ancient exchange systems, he has employed non-destructive scientific methods including infrared spectrometry, pXRF, and synchrotron XRF. He is currently the director of the Complex Canoes project, which is using new scientific methods including SXRF to study museum collections of Bronze Age sewn plank boats. Other recent projects include research on the origins of money, trade systems in ancient Mesoamerica, and long-term resilience in maritime hunter-gatherer societies.