Roberto Padoan received his Master of Research MRes in Heritage Science at the University College London UCL and his Bachelor in Methods and Technologies for the Conservation of Library Heritage at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He is the principal conservator of the Paper and Books department of Artlab Australia, Government of South Australia. He has 16 years of experience as books and paper conservator at the Apostolic Vatican Archive, the Nationaal Archief – Dutch National Archives and Artlab Australia. Since 2006, he has conducted a research about the use of Imaging Spectroscopy for applications in the field of archival materials in particular for ageing monitoring. He has produced peer reviewed publications and lectures in close collaboration with many research institutions such as the University College London UCL, the Technical University Delft TU-Delft, the Italian National Research Centre CNR and the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing BAM.
Marvin Klein received his PhD in experimental physics at the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) for work in the field of laser physics / non-linear optical frequency conversion. After a year of postdoc studies at the University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands) and two years as a Marie-Curie Industrial Host Fellow at a laser company, he joined engineering company DEMCON in 2003. He is involved in the development of custom machines and devices that use optical measurement techniques for industrial, bio-medical and cultural heritage applications.
Dr Roger M. Groves is Associate Professor in Aerospace NDT/SHM and Heritage Diagnostics at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Cranfield University, UK (2002) and was a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Applied Optics, University of Stuttgart before joining TU Delft in 2008. His research interests are in the development of custom optical and ultrasonic instrumentation and algorithms for materials testing and structural analysis. Since 2004, he has led and participated in a number of cultural heritage projects, applying his expertise in shearography, OCT and spectral imaging to investigate material and structural degradation. Dr Groves heads a group of 20 researchers in TU Delft and has published more than 200 journal and conference papers. He is chair of the SPIE Optics for Arts, Architecture and Archaeology Conference, a Fellow of SPIE and a Member of IIC, IOP, OSA and RSC.
(retired as of September 2019) Worked over 40 years as paper and book restorer, researcher and manager at the Nationaal Archief. He was a member of different ICA programs. He participated in the TANAP project and in various European Projects, such as InCor, MIP, SurveNIR, PaperTreat, COST D42 and in NWO and MATRA projects. He was involved in the development of the UPAA survey method. He took part in the TIEM MEP SEE Training Program. He is co-author of various books and publications. He coordinated the EU project APEx. He was involved in conservation training in the Caribbean. He has experience with salvage activities and currently advising the Caribbean Emergency Heritage Network. Currently he is working on a storage box in tropical climates and a combined method for strengthening very fragile documents affected by ink corrosion. He is treasurer of the board of the National Committee of the Blue Shield Netherlands.
Started his career in 1976 at te State Archives in the Netherlands. Trained as a Paper and Book restorer at the Training school, for Restorers in Amsterdam ( Central Laboratorium). 1978: Specialisation Course for Archive restauration
1986-1989: Higher Adjucation in Paper and Book Restauration. From 1990 on he was responsible for the Deltaplan for the safeguarding of Cultural Heritage in the Archives. From Head of Conservation, he became Head of Collection and was a board member at the National Archives till 2014. From 2014 on he was responsible for the realisation of the second building for the National Archives with a capacity of 95 kilometre shelves for storing the Archives. His main fields of interest have been, Preventive Conservation, Quality of storage and Repositories, Air quality. He has been involved in a number of European Research Projects, like ACBAM-STEP; Inkor; Durability of Paper ;Survenir; MIP; Papertreat, etc. Within the International Council on Archives he was President of the Committee ion Preservation of Archives in Temperate Climates (2001-2008) and member of the Program Management Committe (2002-2008). Retired in December 2020 after 44 years at the National Archives of the Netherlands
Matija Strlič is Professor of Analytical Chemistry at University of Ljubljana and Professor of Heritage Science at University College London. His main research interests are the development of heritage science infrastructure, including instrumentation and methodology, as well as modelling of heritage materials, environments, values and decision making. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and is Editorial Board Member of Heritage Science, Polymer Degradation and Stability and Studies in Conservation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the International Institute for Conservation. In 2015, he received the Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia Award for the outstanding achievements in science and international collaboration.
