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 | Katherine Curran has worked as a Lecturer in Sustainable Heritage at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage since 2013. She is Principal Investigator for the ERC Starting Grant funded project "COMPLEX: The Degradation of Complex Modern Polymeric Objects in Heritage Collections: A System Dynamics Approach" and Assistant Course Director for the MSc in Sustainable Heritage. Katherine's research interests include the conservation of modern cultural heritage materials, polymer chemistry and degradation, and the analysis of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from historic objects. |
 | Simoni Da Ros completed her undergraduate studies in Chemical Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Maria (BSc, 2010) before undertaking a MSc in Processes Engineering at the same institution (2010-2012). She then moved to Rio de Janeiro to study the catalytic conversion of ethanol into 1,3-butadiene for her PhD under the supervision of Professors José Carlos Pinto and Marcio Schwaab at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Peq/COPPE/UFRJ, 2017). Outside of academia, Simoni enjoys cooking and spending time with friends. |
 | Argyro Gkili received the MSc degree in Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences in 2005. Subsequently she obtained an M.Eng. and a Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2010 and 2016 respectively) from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. She worked initially in Biophysics research. Argyro’s current research focuses on the Mathematical modelling of the Polymer Degradation applied to Plastic Museum Artefacts. That includes modelling of the multiple physicochemical mechanisms and transport phenomena which take place during degradation such as migration of plasticiser, physical damage degradation and photodegradation. |
 | Before arriving at UCL, Isabella Del Gaudio studied at the University of Bologna for both her BSc and MSc. Being always interested in art and science, conservation science represents the perfect link and she had the possibility to work at the Rathgen Research Laboratory (Berlin, Germany), Deutsche Bergbau-Museum (Bochum, Germany) and Faculty of Conservation at the Pardubice University (Litomyšl, Czech Republic). Outside of work she likes to have aperitives with friends, to go to concerts and to enjoy time outdoors during the sunny days. |
 | Ida Ahmad graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA (Hons) and MEng in chemical engineering in 2017. Supervised by Dr Katherine Curran and Dr Luca Mazzei, her research focuses on developing computer simulations to understand degradation mechanisms in cellulose acetate. |