Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland opens a position of a research assistant in the Cultural Heritage Research Group of the Institute. The research assistant reporting to the head of the Cultural Heritage Research group will work on the development of a comprehensive mechanical and numerical model of historical, aged paint layers in paintings – innovative at a global scale. The paint layer is a complex assembly of humidity-sensitive materials which have – over centuries – aged, cracked, and delaminated. Cracks join up forming the network – the craquelure pattern (CP) – which is a distinctive characteristic of materials and physical structure of the artwork, an outcome of the construction and painting techniques employed by the workshop and the artist, but there is no knowledge on how CPs have developed and what is the effect of CPs on painting vulnerability to environmental variations.
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