Team
Research Team
Susana Coentro
Principal Investigator
Conservation Scientist at the Research Unit VICARTE – Glass and Ceramic for the Arts – on the Technical Art History and Archaeometry of glazed ceramics.
Márcia Vilarigues
co-Principal Investigator
Conservation Scientist and Head of the Department of Conservation and Restoration at FCT NOVA; Director of the Research Unit VICARTE – Glass and Ceramic for the Arts.
Alexandre Nobre Pais
Art Historian and Director of the National Tile Museum, in Lisbon.
Andreia Ruivo
Chemist and specialist in glass synthesis; Vice-director of the Research Unit VICARTE – Glass and Ceramic for the Arts.
Carla Machado
Research Fellow
Conservation Scientist and Research Fellow at VICARTE (R&D Unit Glass and Ceramics for the Arts).
Fernanda Carvalho
Research Fellow
PhD candidate at the Department of Materials Science (FCT NOVA); Research Fellow at VICARTE (R&D Unit Glass and Ceramics for the Arts).
Mario Bandiera
Conservation Scientist and collaborator at L’Opificio delle Pietre Dure, in Florence. ChromAz Research Fellow between April 2022 and March 2023.
Marta Manso
Researcher at LIBPhys and VICARTE (Glass and Ceramics for the Arts); Invited assistant professor at the Department of Art and Heritage Sciences, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon.
Rosário Salema de Carvalho
Researcher and executive coordinator of Az – Rede de Investigação em Azulejo [Az – Azulejo Research Network] from ARTIS – Instituto de História da Arte, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa.
Stefanie Bauvois
Conservator-Restorer; Head of the Ceramics Conservation Department and Researcher for the Arches research group at the University of Antwerp, Antwerpen (UA).
Trinitat Pradell
Full Professor in Applied Physics and member of the Grup de Caracterització de Materials (GCM) at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (BarcelonaTech).
Umberto Veronesi
Research Fellow
Archaeologist and Heritage Scientist specialised in the study of pre-modern technologies. Research Fellow at VICARTE (R&D Unit Glass and Ceramics for the Arts).
Consultants
João Manuel Mimoso
Coordinating Researcher at the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering – LNEC (Lisbon, Portugal); Founder and coordinator of the research line on Azulejos at LNEC.
Sven Dupré
Director of the Research Institute for History and Art History, and Professor of History of Art, Science and Technology at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam; PI of the ERC-funded ARTECHNE project ‘Technique in the Arts: Concepts, Practices, Expertise, 1500-1950’ (2015-2021).
Students
Inês Feliciano
PhD candidate at the Department of Conservation and Restoration (FCT NOVA), VICARTE and National Tile Museum since March 2023.
Victor Lancrenon
Bachelor's student at Chimie ParisTech and research intern at VICARTE between April and July 2022.
Margarida Martins
Master’s student at the Department of Conservation and Restoration at FCT NOVA.
Camille Perez
Bachelor's student at Chimie ParisTech and research intern at VICARTE between April and July 2023.
Ema Figueiredo
Master’s student at the Department of Conservation and Restoration at FCT NOVA and intern at the National Tile Museum between September 2021 and July 2022.