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Prof. Giovanna Di Pietro

Profile

Prof. Giovanna Di Pietro Dozentin

Contact

Links

  • Contact hours Monday
    Tuesday
    Thursday
  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Bern Academy of the Arts
    Konservierung und Restaurierung
    Fellerstrasse 11
    3027 Bern

Activities

  • Professor

  • Researcher

  • Physics

Teaching

  • Conservation and Restoration, Bern Academy of the Arts

  • conservation science

Research

  • Sustainability

  • archaeological objects made of bark materials

CV

  • I am an art conservation scientist working since 15 years at the department of conservation of the Bern Academy of the Arts. Previously I was post-doc at the Institute for the Care of Monuments of the ETH Zürich and earned my PhD in physical chemistry at the University of Basel with a thesis on the degradation of silver gelatin glass plates. I spent one year at ScreenSound Australia and different research periods in Amsterdam at the originally called Centraal Laboratorium, now RCE.

    For my publications please see https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0772-1084
  • 2009-now Professor Bern Academy of the Arts
  • 2005-2007 Post-Doc ETH Zürich-Institute for the Preservation of Monuments
  • 2008 Physics teacher Gymnasium Münchenstein
  • 2004 Researcher ScreenSound Australia
  • 1998-2002 PhD University of Basel
  • 1995-1997 Researcher Centraal laboratorium/RCE Amsterdam
  • 1998-2002 PhD-Silver Mirroring on silver gelatin Glass Plates University of Basel
  • 1988-1994 BA and MA in Physics University of Milano

Projects

  • The Schnidejoch Bow Case: The Stone Age was the Plant Age. SNF Agora Rolling Call

  • ArchaeoBark: Identification, Conservation and Significance of Prehistoric Bark Vessels. SNF Weave

  • Unfreezing history. A study to find historical, technological and conservational possibilities for the earliest example of a Neolithic bow case ever to be found. SNF Interdisciplinary

  • Pollution Pathways. A new method to quantify effects and costs of the reduction of air pollution in libraries and archives . SNF Projects

  • Study of the behaviour of wood ageing and risk analysis of ancient panel painting .SNF Projects

Memberships

Supervised theses

  • Michel Ingoglia Medieval wax seals as Topological Metaphor and a proposed intra-layer, removable adhesive barrier layer for use in wax seal restoration. 2017

  • Aurore Grossboillot Pertinence de l’élaboration d’un plan de sauvegarde au sein d’un atelier de restauration indépendant. Besoin, plan, évaluation 2020

  • Katherine Wildmann Auf die Tapete geklebt Untersuchungen von Relevanz und Eigenschaften von Facings in der Papiertapetenrestaurierung 2014

  • Yasmine Kerber Die Molmassenverteilung holzschliffhaltiger Zeitungspapiere mittels Grössenausschlusschromatographie (SEC) Eine Methodenweiterentwicklung zur Untersuchung des Alterungsverhaltens von Zeitungspapieren 2014

  • Marcus Jakob Röntgenbestrahlung zur Desinfektion von cellulose-/papierhaltigen Archiv- und Kulturgütern 2015

  • Johanna Klügl PhD 2023

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • Italian - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • German - Full professional proficiency
  • English - Full professional proficiency
  • French - Limited working proficiency
  • Italy
  • Australia
  • Netherlands