researchers
lyNN B. Brostoff, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Lynn B. Brostoff is a Senior Research Scientist and Analytical Service Liaison at the Library of Congress. Lynn has worked as a Conservation Scientist for over 25 years at leading museums and libraries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute, and the Library of Congress. Lynn holds a B.A. from Vassar College, a M.A. in Art History and Certificate of Conservation from New York University, a M.S. in Polymer Materials Science from the University of Cincinnati, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Amsterdam. Lynn’s current research focuses on iron gall ink chemistry, verdigris pigment, and deterioration in 19th century glass.
ANDREW C. buechele, the CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
Andrew C. Buechele is Director of the Microstructural Characterization Laboratory and Principal Investigator in Far Infrared Spectroscopy Laboratory, Vitreous State Laboratory, The Catholic University of America. Father Andrew is an ordained priest and holds a B.A. in Physics from The Catholic University of America, a M.A. in Nuclear Physics from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University. He conducts research on problems involving crystallization and phase-separation in glasses, glass alteration by aqueous corrosion, corrosion and alteration processes in metals, and refractories employed in glass processing, among other subjects.
Fenella g. france, library of congress
Fenella France is Chief of the Preservation Research and Testing Division at the Library of Congress. Fenella holds a Bachelor of Commerce, a Bachelor of Applied Science and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Textile Science from the University of Otago, as well as a M.BA. from Deakin Universtiy. She is a cultural heritage manager.
nicholas kivi
Nicholas Kivi served as a Research Assistant at the Medical Imaging & Image Analysis Laboratory Department in George Washington University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering from 2019-2020. He graduated with a Masters in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Arizona in January 2019. His thesis was entitled Reverse Engineering of Ancient Ceramic Technologies from Southeast Asia and South China. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2016 with a B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering. His work experience includes fellowships and internships at the Freer Gallery of Art, Library of Congress and Brookhaven National Laboratory.
murray loew, george washington university
Murray Loew is a Professor in the Biomedical and Engineering Department at George Washington University, and Head of the Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Laboratory. Murray obtained a B.S.EE from Drexel Institute of Technology, and a M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. His research areas include multimodality imaging and quantitative methods in image analysis applied to the medical and cultural heritage fields.
elizabeth montagnino, Purdue university
Elizabeth Montagnino is a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. at Purdue University in Civil Engineering with a focus in Environmental. She was an undergraduate research assistant for the Vitreous State Laboratory focusing on nineteenth century glass degradation while achieving a B.S. in Chemistry from the Catholic University of America.
ISABELLE muller, the CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
Isabelle Muller is a Project Manager at the Vitreous State Laboratory at the Catholic University of America, in charge of research and development programs for the U.S. Department of Energy, including glass formulation for Hanford Site tank waste vitrification and long term water leaching studies of various waste glasses. She obtained her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Pierre et Marie Curie University (FR) and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in nuclear chemistry at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
CAROL LYNN ward-bamford, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford has served as the Curator of Musical Instruments Collections at the Library of Congress for over 25 years, where she cares and acquires for the collection of musical instruments, including managing their conservation, preservation, and display. Carol Lynn holds a B.A. at Tufts University, a M.A. in Music in Performance on the Flute at the University of North Carolina, and a M.A. in Library Science and Information Technology at Simmons College. Carol Lynn conducts scholarly research, and plans and presents exhibits, public dissemination and concerts related to musical instruments at the Library of Congress and museums around the world.
Stephanie Zaleski, Cal state university at east bay
Stephanie Zaleski is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the California State University, East Bay. She was formerly Postdoctoral Researcher at the Northwestern University – Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts, where her research focused on investigating metal soap formation in oil-based paint films using Raman spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Stephanie was the Postdoctoral Fellow at George Washington University, where she was a member of the Glass-At-Risk research project, from 2017-2018. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2016-2017. Stephanie holds a B.A. in Biochemistry from Barnard College and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Northwestern University. Her research interests include the application of spectroscopic and imaging techniques applied to the study of degradation processes in works of art and electrochemical methods for studying transport processes, and the ability to correlate chemical information on multiple length scales.