SPECIAL SESSION #24
Cultural heritage at synchrotrons
ORGANIZED BY
Ilaria Carlomagno
Ilaria Carlomagno
Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy
Giuliana Aquilanti
Giuliana Aquilanti
Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy
ABSTRACT
X-rays are an excellent investigation tool for objects of cultural heritage significance, as they can probe the structural and chemical nature of a sample without damaging it. Compared to conventional laboratory X-ray sources, synchrotrons offer several advantages such as higher intensity and energy tunability, which can be exploited to optimize the sensitivity to certain elements.
Furthermore, synchrotron radiation can be employed for a wide variety of experimental techniques, often during the same experimental run, i.e. under the same experimental conditions. This leads to multiple datasets providing complementary information on the chemical and structural properties of the samples.
This special session aims at gathering experts on archaeometry using synchrotron radiation applied to cultural heritage and to let them share knowledge, exchange ideas, and start fruitful cooperation.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS
Ilaria Carlomagno is beamline scientist at the XRF beamline, at the Italian synchrotron Elettra. She graduated in condensed matter physics at the University of Roma Tre, with an experimental thesis carried out at the ESRF synchrotron, in France. In 2014, she started working at the ID03 beamline of the ESRF, for her PhD thesis on the structural and magnetic properties of nanostructured systems. She got her Ph.D. under the joint supervision of the Universities Roma Tre and Grenoble Alpes. In 2018, she joined the Elettra synchrotron source and started working with XRF for cultural heritage. After 4 years as a PostDoc, in 2022 she became beamline scientist.
Giuliana Aquilanti is head of the XAFS and XRF beamlines at the Italian synchrotron Elettra. After a M. Sc. Degree in Physics at the University of Camerino, she got a Ph.D. in Physics, University J. Fourier (Grenoble). She has been working with synchrotron radiation for more than 20 years, focusing on X-ray absorption techniques for the structural and chemical characterization of matter. She was involved in different research projects funded by EU, IAEA and CERIC-ERIC. She is member and of the XAFS commission of the IUCr as liaison with the international program committee. She is referee for the Canadian Light source and Romanian and Latvian ministry of education, as well as for several international journals (Springer, Elsevier, ACS, AIP, APS).
