I have a background in Chemistry and Art History (University College Utrecht, 2018) and pursued this interdisciplinary interest with a MSc in Technical Art History at University of Amsterdam (2021). After graduating this programme, I worked for several projects at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. This included working on the use of glassy materials in paint for Operation Night Watch, studying the connection between Johannes Vermeer's painting technique and 17th-century optics, and developing a software tool to simultaneously examine 3D scans and CT data of cultural heritage objects. 

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Currently, I am working as Research Associate at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Hamilton Kerr Institute at the University of Cambridge. There, I am responsible for the scientific imaging of various parts of the collection, with a focus on 17th-century Dutch painting.

 

Alongside the job, I am pursuing a 4-year PhD research looking into the the blue painter's pigment smalt and its relation to other cobalt-containing blue glassy materials in the Early Modern Period. This interdisciplinary research takes place between the Department of Conservation and Restoration & VICARTE (NOVA Universidade de Lisboa), and the Conservation and Science Department & Hamilton Kerr Institute at the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge University) and is supervised by Prof. Márcia Vilarigues and Prof. Erma Hermens. I also work as an Assistant Editor at ArtMatters: International Journal for Technical Art History.