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Julie Dawson
Affiliated Researcher (Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow)

Julie Dawson is the former Head of Conservation and Scientific Research at the Fitzwilliam Museum (retired May 2021) and was...

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Helen Strudwick
Senior Curator (Ancient Nile Valley)

Helen Strudwick is Senior Curator (Ancient Nile Valley) at the Fitzwilliam Museum and is responsible for the Museum’s collection of...

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Flavia Ravaioli
Objects Conservator, Research Associate

Flavia is Objects Conservator, Research Associate at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She has worked extensively on Egyptian funerary artefacts at the...

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Dr Melanie Pitkin
Affiliated Researcher

Formerly a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Egyptian Coffins Project at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Melanie Pitkin is Senior Curator, Nicholson...

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Dr Geoffrey Killen
Ancient woodworking specialist

Dr Geoffrey Killen is a leading Egyptologist, wood technologist and furniture historian. He studied Design and Technology at Shoreditch College,...

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Elsbeth Geldhof
Independent conservator

Elsbeth Geldhof is an independent historic paint conservator, and researcher of longue durée painting techniques and pigment sources from the...

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Dr Lucy Wrapson
Senior Conservator, Hamilton Kerr Institute

Lucy Wrapson is a paintings conservator and teacher of conservation and historic painting techniques at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University...

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Caterina Zaggia
PhD Student in Archaeological Science

Caterina did her undergraduate studies in Technology for Conservation and Restoration, at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, focusing on the...

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Sara Hany Abed
Research visitor

Sara Hany Abed joined the Egyptian Coffins project at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 2019, first as a translator and project...

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Dr Nour Mohamed Badr
Consultant

Dr Nour Mohamed Badr is a Conservator at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo and a specialist in the conservation...

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Dr Tom Turmezei
Consultant Radiologist

Consultant Radiologist, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK Honorary Professor, University of East Anglia Host of the...

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Daniel Pett
Head of Major Projects Digital Strategy

Dan now works for Historic England directing their Digital Strategy. Until 2018, he was Head of Digital and IT for...

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Jennifer Marchant
Antiquities Conservator

Jennifer Marchant (1979-2020) was an Antiquities Conservator at the Fitzwilliam Museum and a core contributing member of the Fitzwilliam Egyptian...

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Nelly von Aderkas
Conservation Scientist

Nelly von Aderkas is a Conservation Scientist interested in historic painting materials and methods. She has a background in chemistry...

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Charlotte Thompson
Antiquities Project Intern

From March-July 2019, Charlotte Thompson-Mitchell was an intern working with the Egyptian Coffins team on the successful development and delivery...

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Charlotte Hunkeler
PhD Student

Charlotte Hunkeler is carrying out research towards a PhD at the University of Basel. Her thesis is on inner coffins...

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