Team

Artur Neves has a PhD in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage granted in 2023 by the Department of Conservation and Restoration of NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal. His PhD was focused on the study and preservation of celluloid objects. In 2020 and 2021, he was awarded two projects in the DISCO beamline of the SOLEIL Synchrotron, France, to test deep UV luminescence for the study of celluloid degradation. In 2020 he received a research fellowship within the NEMOSINE European project to study the degradation of cellulose derivative cinematographic films. Between January and May 2022, Artur Neves was granted a Fulbright research fellowship with the support of the FCT. He has also collaborated with Portuguese cultural institutions in the search for Portuguese celluloid, such as Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, Casa da Memória Guimarães and Sociedade Martins Sarmento. In 2022, he was also awarded a project by IPERION HS at IPANEMA, France, for the testing of state-of-the-art imaging techniques in the study of celluloid degradation mechanisms. From April to September of 2023, he had a research grant for the REDiscover project.