As heritage institutions seek to use their collections and buildings in ways never previously considered to engage audiences and raise income, this often has the unintended consequence of increasing vibration exposure, e.g. increased transportation, construction works or hosting music events near ...
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship, to be undertaken at Imperial College London (Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department) and the National Gallery (Scientific Department). In the cultural heritage sector, there is a long tradition of using complementary imaging techniques to ...
VANGOGH (Unravelling and predicting degradation of canvas paintings: a multiscale and multiphysics framework) is a challenging research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant). We are currently building a team of talented and enthusiastic researchers to work on this ...
Understanding the daily lives of fossil humans involves interpreting the tools (stone, bone, antler, shell) of these past users. Archaeological research has been addressing these issues for many years. As with any object (and a fortiori stone tools, which will be the focus of the project ...
La pratique des scénographes et des concepteurs en muséographie fait un bond en avant grâce aux supports immersifs utilisant la Réalité Étendue (réalité virtuelle et augmentée) pour concevoir et organiser des expositions archéologiques. Cependant, pour les sites archéologiques éloignés ou ...
The project will involve the analysis of ancient metagenomic datasets from different sources, with a particular focus on the distribution, evolution, and human use of plants in the past. More specifically, the objective of the PhD will be to analyse paleodietary data from ancient mastics from ...
A PhD position is offered at the VU Earth Science Department to combine the information from dendrochronological and sedimentary palaeoflood data in NW-Europe to gain a better insight into the spatial and temporal variability of the Holocene hydroclimate - specifically that of extreme events ...
The project seeks to further our understanding of Icelandic vernacular building physics and structural behaviour with the aim of improving preservation, restoration, and maintenance. Turf houses are the vernacular buildings of Iceland, and the research will especially focus on turf roofs. The ...
