Email: mav@kb.dk
Short Biography
Marie Vest trained as a conservator at the School of Conservation in Copenhagen and 1996-2004 she was a lecturer and researcher at the school. From 1990-2004 she participated in the European research projects on leather and parchment, STEP, Environment, MAP and IDAP coordinated from the school. Since 2004 she is head of Preservation at the Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen. The department covers preventive conservation for large collections, climate quality in storage, conservation and binding of individual objects. Recent research projects in the department focus on quality of climate quality in the storage rooms, conservation data and machine learning and visual analysis of parchment.