Lasers ART's Sake IESL-FORTH Cultural Heritage
MS. PAPANIKOLAOU ATHANASIA Career IESL – FORTH, Msc, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece (2015-2019) 2016,Bacherlo,Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece DR. PAPADAKIS VASSILIS Career IESL – FORTH, Post Doc (2002-2014) IMBB-FORTH, Post Doc (2014- today) MS. BERNIKOLA IRINI Career IESL – FORTH, MSc in Art Conservation Science, Aristoteleion Apnepistimion THessalonikis, Greece (2005-2017) […]
CALLOS, Conservation of Athens antiquities with Laser and Lidar technologies Open to Science and public, aiming to study and preserve the emblematic archeological objects and monuments of Athens.
February 22, 2020
Papanikolaou A, Tserevelakis G J, Melessanaki K, Fotakis C, Zacharakis G and P. Pouli
“Development of a hybrid photoacoustic and optical monitoring system for the study of laser ablation processes upon the removal of encrustation from stonework”
Opto-Electron Adv 3, 190037 (2020).
The focused training-by-research course entitled “Bring your own Conservation Challenges to our Laser Laboratories” is an ongoing training activity since 2010. These activities, up to now, have been addressed to more than 10 professional conservators.
September 30, 2020
Our group has undertaken a series of analytical investigations at the prehistoric settlement of Akrotiri, Thera, in support of the important, ongoing excavation, directed by Professor Emeritus Christos Doumas, under the auspices of the Athens Archaeological Society.
September 30, 2019
A new article entitled “Non-invasive photoacoustic detection of hidden underdrawings in paintings using air-coupled transducers” has been recently published in “Ultrasonics” presenting resent work of IESL-FORTH (Crete-Greece), team.
July 1, 2019
A new article has been recently published in “Heritage Science” presenting a collaborative work between Greece, Italy, Poland and Netherlands researchers.
June 03-07, 2019
Lectures from experts on modern laser diagnostic and analytical techniques, as well as on laser cleaning methodologies will be combined with practical demos and laboratory hands-on sessions.
Heraklion is the largest city of Crete and one of Greece’s major urban centers. Heraklion (GR: Ηράκλειον – also transliterated as Iraklion or Herakleion) is the largest urban centre in Crete, the capital of the region and the economic centre of the island. The first European civilisation, the Minoan civilisation, flourished on this land 5000 years ago. Currently the population […]
FORTH campus is located 8 to 10 kilometers South-West of Heraklion center. You can reach FORTH by using: 1. TAXI It will cost you approximately 15 to 20 Euro, and the driving time is approximately 20 minutes. The name of FORTH in Greek is spelled and pronounced “ITE”, and “ITE” is near the University Hospital, […]
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Dr. Vivi Tornari studied Optical Holography and Research Associate at IESL – FORTH .
PROFESSOR EMERITUS
Costas Fotakis is currently an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Crete and Distinguished Member of FORTH.
SSHOC, Realising the Social Sciences and Humanities for the European Open Science Cloud
Best Poster Award in “Origin of knowledge as a key element in the documentation of archaeological objects” CIDOC- ICOM 2018
June 02-06, 2018
Lectures from experts on modern laser diagnostic and analytical techniques, as well as on laser cleaning methodologies will be combined with practical demonstrations and laboratory hands-on sessions. In parallel, experts researching on advancing the level of heritage monuments resilience will present the HERACLES concept.
September 16, 2017
The paper entitled “Portable laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy/diffuse reflectance hybrid spectrometer for analysis of inorganic pigments”, by P. Siozos, A. Philippidis, D. Anglos, have been selected for the cover of the Spectrochimica Acta Part B Jurnal (Spectrochimica Acta Part B 137, 93-100 ,2017).
Spectral Imaging allows the detailed mapping of the individual layers that compose an artwork using a prototype spectral imaging system.
Detecting changes and monitoring degradation is critical in order to improve and upgrade preventive conservation strategies.
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Laser material analysis, Laser structural diagnosis, Laser conservation
Join us for an exciting journey to become acquainted with the latest research on laser analysis and conservation in CH.
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June 19-24, 2017
Lectures from experts on modern laser diagnostic and analytical techniques, as well as on laser cleaning methodologies will be combined with practical demonstrations and laboratory hands-on sessions.
Two days of field tests and experiments on-site at selected monuments in Crete is also foreseen.
E-RIHS will provide access to a wide range of cutting-edge scientific infrastructure, methodologies, data and tools, training in the use of these tools, public engagement, access to repositories for standardized data storage, analysis and interpretation
HELLAS- CH
Synergy ELI – LASERLAB Europe, HiPER & E-RIHS.gr
June 27- July 02, 2016 Dear friends, We would like to extend our sincere thanks to all of you for your active participation in OPTO-CH 2016 Workshop “Laser technologies in Cultural Heritage analysis, diagnosis and conservation”. We are indeed very happy that you have been with us at Heraklion and hope that you found the workshop to […]
Exploit advanced photonic tools to develop new diagnostic methodologies
June 27- July 02 2016
“Lectures from experts on modern laser diagnostic and analytical techniques, as well as on laser cleaning methodologies will be combined with practical demonstrations and laboratory hands-on sessions.”