ARIAH (Chemical speciation of A Revolution In Art History) is a Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF), financed by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON). The overarching goal of the project is to investigate by means of analytical techniques the shift from tempera to oil painting that occurred in the 15th century Italy and marked the golden age of Renaissance art.
The EU-funded project, officially starting on November 1, 2022, will be a joint work between the Department of Chemistry, University of Pisa (Italy) supervised by Dr. Ilaria Bonaduce and the Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (United States) supervised by Dr. Uwe Bergmann. The postdoctoral fellow, Rafaella Georgiou, received her Ph.D. in Physics from Université Paris-Saclay, France in 2021. Her research focuses on the chemical speciation of organic systems in heritage materials, using synchrotron-based x-ray spectroscopy and imaging techniques and nanoscale imaging.
