Lasers ART's Sake IESL-FORTH Cultural Heritage
Photonics for Heritage Science group share here the latest news, highlights, recent publications, current research & activities.
Recent results! “Towards a multi-analytical methodology based on molecular spectroscopic techniques for the detection and characterization of organic residues in archaeological findings” We are excited to announce our PhD student Maria Eleni Konstantinou’s participation in the “3rd Bridge of Archaeometry” event at the Archaeological Museum of Patras. She shared the latest findings from her recent […]
The Photonics for Heritage Science team is thrilled to be featured in a documentary
PhoHS of IESL- FORTH had a strong representation in the colloquium “Protection and Promotion of Greek Cultural Heritage”
Kostas Hatzigiannakis on behalf of the Photonics for Heritage Science IESL – FORTH team, had the chance to present PROTEAS Open Laboratory
New article published in Scientific Reports
Visit from the Director of Palace Museum to FORTH
Visiting the Joint Laboratory with Place Museum, in Beijing.
A recent article has been published in the Virtual Special Issue of the Journal of Cultural Heritage dedicated to LACONA XIII proceedings
CALLOS TriENA at Open Conservation Laboratory, Athens
IPERION HS FIXLAB project LasArt
Visit from July 3rd to 14th, 2023.
A series of on-site tests of the PROTEAS instrumentation were performed by PhoHS team of IESL – FORTH researchers
“Evaluation of synergistic multi/hyper-spectral techniques for the non-invasive analytical characterization of large-size paintings by means of a 19th-century mock-up painting” has been recently presented in the TECHNART 2023 (Lisbon 7-12 May)
Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) in the service of archaeological organic residues analysis
On Friday 28th of April 2023 we welcomed at FORTH a delegation from Palace Museum in Beijing
“Towards a multi-analytical methodology based on molecular spectroscopy techniques for the detection & characterization of organic residues in archaeological findings” poster presentation at the XXIVth Congress of GMPCA: Archeometry 2023
December 30, 2022
A new article by Annie Giakoumaki, A. Philippidis, Panos Siozos, Ioanna Pyrri, D. Anglos & P. Pouli was published in Science Journal .
December 14, 2022
DIALOGUE 05: Mr Guo Hong ,University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
“Restoration research of Drepung Monastery murals in Tibet”
November 24, 2022
DIALOGUE 04: Andreas Germanos Karydas ,NCSR “Demokritos”, Greece & CNR, -ISPC, Italy
“MA-XRF imaging of Greek Antiquities”.
September 28, 2022
DIALOGUE 03: Elissavet KAVOULAKI, Ephorate of Antiquities of Heraklion, Crete, Greece
“Palace of Knossos: Conservation – restoration works and recent strategies within the HERACLES EU project”.
September 10, 2022
Our group is excited to welcome Dr. Maria Roumpou as our new experienced Research Assistant
June 26, 2022
LIBS system installation in Mainz
June 24, 2022
DIALOGUE 02: prof. Cunfeng Wei – Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
“The Applications and prospects of the X-ray Imaging Technology in Cultural Relics”
April 29, 2022
DIALOGUE 01: Costas Vasiliadis – The Acropolis Museum
“The Erectheion Caryatids: Conservation Interventions and Removal of Pollution Encrustation by Means of Laser Technology”
April 01, 2022
A new article by E.Aggelakopoulou, S.Sotiropoulou and G.Karagiannis was published in Heritage Journal.
April 5, 2022
Just received the hard copy of the book “Conserving Stone Heritage”.
Athens, February 18, 2022
February 21- March 04, 2022
“SeaFront project” 1st visit at IESL – FORTH
New progress on elemental mapping of “archaeological shells”
December 21-22, 2021
conference entitled “China-Greece Belt and Road Cultural Conservation Lab Technology”, co-organized by the Palace Museum at the Forbidden City of Beijing and the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of FORTH
November 17-19, 2021
“PhoHS Performs in -situ analysis of Icons from Michael Damaskinos at the Museum of ST. Catherine”
September 23, 2021
“Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) combined with machine learning models and Neural Networks for the classification of hard tissue remains”