Giovanna Di Pietro, PhD

Tel: +41 (0)44 633 63 03
E-mail: dipietro@arch.ethz.ch

Post-doc at the Research Group of Conservation Science and Technology (FTK) of the Institute of Monument Conservation.

Activities at FTK: project Monitoring wall paintings with information technology.
Other activities: research on microclimate effects on canvas paintings, consultant for museums and archives in the field of photographic preservation.

Education:
- 1998-2002: PhD thesis at the Laboratory of Image and Media Technologies, University of Basel, "Silver mirroring on silver gelatin glass negatives".
- 1989-1994. Department of Physics, University of Milano (Italy). Master thesis "Phase separations in colloidal solutions".

Jobs:
- January-December 2004: "degradation mechanisms of dyes in color motion picture films", University of Canberra, Australia.
- June 2002-December 2003: private consultant in the filed of conservation.
- 1996-1999: collaboration with the Netherlands Institute of Cultural Heritage, Amsterdam as conservation scientist.

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