Participants

  • Abdelhamid Salah, Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation, EHRF, Egypt

Abdelhamid Salah graduated from Faculty of Archeology -Cairo University- in 2001. Since then till 2010 he had been working as specialist conservator on Wood and Stone conservation in many projects in Historic Cairo (WHS). Since 2011 till present, after he graduated from ICCROM international course on First Aid for Cultural Heritage (2011), And from ITC on disaster risk management for Cultural Heritage (Ritsumeikan University). Abdelhamid had the aim to find the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Team through providing 6 National courses on the collaboration with ICCROM where more than 100 Egyptians have qualified as First Aider for Cultural Heritage. Then with ICCROM, UNESCO, CHWB, ICCROM- ATHAR and AWHF, he participated as trainer for specified training for Arabian, African and Balkans countries. Abdelhamid, the Chairman of the Egyptian Heritage Recue Foundation, has experience in emergency response for cultural heritage, risk reduction for sites and collection. And now he appointed in the position of: Manager of the Risk Assessment unit in the Ministry of Antiquities.

  • Anne Rathbone, Boing Boing

Anne Rathbone is a Research Officer with the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice (CRSJ) at the University of Brighton, and is also the Senior Training and Consultancy Manager for Boingboing Resilience Community Interest Company (www.boingboing.org.uk). Boingboing is the key knowledge exchange vehicle for the CRSJ and is closely linked in all its work. Anne is an experienced facilitator, particularly for groups who are working on partnership development. She is highly motivated by community, public services and academics across different disciplines working together to achieve positive social change. She has a special interest in co-produced research – that is, research where the community has a highly active role in developing research design, delivery and outputs. Anne will act as facilitator for our two days together, supporting us to identify common interests and how we can best work together to maximise the value of our varied expertise and contributions.  

  • Asla Medeiros e Sa, FGV/EMAp – Escola de Matemática Aplicada, Brazil

Asla is a Mathematician, Lecturer and Researcher at School of Applied Mathematics at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/EMAp), which she joined in 2007. Asla completed a PhD in Sciences with an emphasis in Computer Graphics at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (Visgraf at IMPA) in 2006. She completed an MSc in Applied Mathematics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (DMA/IM/UFRJ) in 2001. From December 2015 until August 2016 and from July 2012 until February 2013 she held a post-doc position at the Cultural Informatics Research Group at the University of Brighton, UK. In this role, she got involved with additive manufacturing within the context of cultural heritage applications and developed research in cellular structures for additive manufacturing. In 2017, she published the book Sobre Malhas Arquimedianas, in Portuguese. The research on the topic is an ongoing collaboration with Visgraf/IMPA; see Synthesizing Periodic Tiling of Regular Polygons.

  • Claudia Garcia Solis, Seccion de Conservacion y Restauracion del INAH, Mexico

Dr. Claudia Araceli García-Solís currently works at the Centro INAH Yucatán of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (México). Claudia is a conservator specialised in archaeological heritage having an experience of 15 years coordinating conservation projects in various Maya sites such as Chichén Itzá, Mayapán, Calakmul, Chicanná and Becán. Her professional development in conservation practice has encouraged her research in a variety of subjects such as archaeometry of materials and techniques, innovation in conservation treatments and more recently, on the management policies of world heritage conservation in Mexico.

  • Corinna Hattersley-Mitchell, Sussex University

Corinna has worked in the HE Sector for 7 years.  She provided administrative support to the Cultural Informatics Research group at the University of Brighton which was led by Professor David Arnold. The group was notably known for its work digitising and documenting cultural heritage and was part of the international 3D COFORM project. She currently works for the University of Sussex Business school. Corinna’s undergraduate degree was in Archaeology and she most recently graduated from the University of Sussex with a Master’s degree in Criminology & Criminal Justice. Her dissertation focussed on whether it is possible to evaluate the social harm caused by heritage crime.

  • Cristiana Serejo, National Museum, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Cristiana is a graduate in Biological Science, with a PhD in Zoology, University of São Paulo (2001) and post-doc at the Australian Museum (2004). Currently, she is associate professor at the National Museum/UFRJ. Since March 2018, she has held the Deputy Director position at the National Museum/UFRJ at Rio de Janeiro on a 4 year tenure. In the same year, Cristiana was elected to be Head of the Collection Committee of the Museum. As a researcher, she works with evolution and systematics of Crustacea and supervises Masters and PhD students in the Zoology Graduate Program at the museum. She is Associate Fellow of the Brazilian Crustacean Society and Associate Editor (Biological Science) of the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Science. Internationally, she is Editor of some groups within the Order Amphipoda from the World Register of Marine Species.

  • Edmundo Pereira, National Museum, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Edmundo is an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist with a PhD in social anthropology from the Programa de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social/ National Museum/UFRJ. Edmundo is currently the Head of the Department of Anthropology (2017-2019) and an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology of National Museum/UFRJ. He is a member of the Research Laboratory on Ethnicity, Culture and Development (LACED) and the Group of Studies on Popular Culture (GECP/UFRN). He is co-editor of the Collection of Sound Documents of the National Museum and works mainly in the following research fields: indigenous ethnology, ethnicity, ethnomusicology, popular culture and patrimonialization, history of anthropology.

  • Elia Quijano Quinones, UCL
Elia Quijano’s academic background is in archaeology and heritage conservation. She is currently doing a PhD in UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage. Her research aims to analyse how participatory approaches applied in heritage conservation can be linked to current considerations of sustainable heritage in communities context.  This study explores how to generate data from a bottom-up approach to propose indicators of impact to measure heritage conservation performance.  Her research is supervised by Dr. Kalliopi Fouseki and Prof. May Cassar and it is funded by the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico, the Secretary of Research, Innovation, and Advanced Studies of Yucatan, and SEAHA (Center for Doctoral Training in Science and Engineering in Arts Heritage and Archaeology).

Haris Mouratidis is Professor of Software Systems Engineering and founding Director of the Centre for Secure, Intelligent and Usable Systems (CSIUS) at the University of Brighton. He is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a visiting professor at the University of Ionian (Greece). His research interests lie in the intersection of security, privacy, and software engineering. He has pioneered work in developing methodologies, modelling languages, ontologies, tools and platforms to support the analysis, design, and monitoring of security, privacy, risk and trust for large-scale complex software systems. He has applied his theoretical work to practical applications in domains such as critical infrastructures, cloud computing, health-care, telecommunications, banking, and e-commerce. He has published more than 150 papers (h-index 30) and he has led and/or participated in projects funded by the European Union (FP7, Horizon2020), EPSRC, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE), and the Japanese National Institute of Informatics to name few of the funders. He has also received funding for knowledge exchange and industrial projects from Innovate UK, the European Regional Development Fund, British Telecom, ELC, Powerchex, and FORD.

Karina is Principal Lecturer, School of Computing, Engineering & Maths at the University of Brighton. Her research interests include the development and application of computational technologies for the digitisation of objects and environments; the information management, analysis, search/browse visualisation of visual representations, including 2D and 3D content; as well as their physical reproduction using digital fabrication. A focus of the research is the Cultural Heritage (CH) sector and its related applications such as creative applications, art, culture, education and tourism.

  • Laura Taves, Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Laura is an Architect and urbanist, she started her education in 1991 at Universidade Santa Ursula and graduated in 2004 in Rio after a period of living in Europe where she studied and worked in England, Italy and Belgium. She founded the Atelier Azulejaria in 2003 as part of Enda Brasil, a member of the international organization Enda Tiers- Monde which was founded in Senegal in 1972. Laura was Enda’s coordinator in Brazil for 4 years. She lives and works in Rio where she develops projects to help foster a dialogue between the city and its inhabitants while helping them question their social and cultural boundaries. Laura enjoys working in partnership with friends and often collaborates with other architects, artists and educators who are as interested as her to promote social inclusion through art.  

  • Myrsini Samaroudi, University of Brighton
Myrsini holds a degree in History and Archaeology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and a MSc in Cultural Informatics and Communication from the University of the Aegean, Greece. She has worked as an archaeologist in Greece, as a researcher in academia and as a cultural informatics professional for the implementation of IT in cultural heritage organisations. She has also taught courses on museums and cultural heritage management. Myrsini is working on a PhD in collaboration with the Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton and Hove. She is currently investigating how digitally fabricated replicas of artefacts can be incorporated in museum experiences for different audience groups.
  • Natalia Hernandez Tangarife, Seccion de Conservacion y Restauracion del INAH, Mexico

Natalia was born in Bogotá, Colombia, where she earned her degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the Universidad Externado de Colombia. 10 years ago, she decided to move to México in order to work in diversity projects of restoration with the National Institute of Anthropology and History –INAH. She worked in Teotihuacán and its pre-hispanic mural paintings and other Mayan sites in the Yucatán Peninsula, and also her work was based on mural paintings and wood sculptures found in churches that are located in remote indigenous towns, as well as Mexico City’s museums and their collections. In 2012 she started working closely with Mayan communities and learning about their cultural heritage and their worship practices. While working with different villages she realized there was a social and communication gap that needed to be closed in order for these types of projects to succeed and to obtain common objectives, about the conservation of cultural heritage refers. That is why in 2018 she received a master degree in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention at Universitat Rovira i Virgili from Catalunya.  Natalia is now the leader conservator of a project titled “Visions of the living heritage of the communities Mayas from Yucatán. Exchange of experiences between communities and restorers”.

Nicola Ashmore’s research interests focus on artistic interventions and curatorial practice, notably the means through which this can leverage collaborative activism. She has made use of film documentary and digital technology as methodologies, investigating museum practices, community artists and collaborative practices. She is currently researching remakings of Picasso’s Guernica.

    • Omniya Abdel Barr, V&A, UK

Omniya Abdel Barr is an architect based in Cairo and London, specialising in cultural heritage conservation and documentation. Her work focuses on Islamic architecture in Egypt. She holds a PhD on Mamluk History from Provence University, Aix-Marseille, France (2015), an MSc in Conservation from the Raymond Lemaire Center at KUL, Leuven, Belgium (2004) and a BSc in Architecture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University, Egypt (2000). Omniya is currently the Barakat Trust Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, leading the digitisation of K.A.C. Creswell’s archive in collaboration with the American University in Cairo, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and Harvard University. She is also the Project Manager of Rescuing the Mamluk Minbars of Cairo, a project funded by the British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund in partnership with DCMS and implemented by the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation.

  • Ricardo Marroquim, Delft University

Ricardo Marroquim is an Assistant Professor at the Computer Graphics and Visualization Group at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Previously he was an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where he also received his PhD in 2008. In 2009 he was an ERCIM Postdoc Fellow at the Visual Computing Lab, CNR-Pisa. For the last 10 years he has been especially concerned with topics related to applying Computer Graphics to Cultural Heritage in a diversity of fronts, such as dissemination, restoration, and conservation, among others. He is also particularly interested in Appearance Acquisition, Rendering, and Visualization.

Suna is passionate about conducting basic and applied research on individuals and their environment. She has an internationally recognized and well-established research expertise on human development and wellbeing from prenatal period to adulthood. With the advantage of having an interdisciplinary background her research focuses on understanding the dynamics of development and well-being in relation to individual, social, cultural and wider systemic risk and protective factors mainly using quantitative methods. Suna also has expertise on evaluating complex interventions at the school, local authority and national levels. She is working as a senior research fellow at the School of Health Sciences, University of Brighton; she is also deputy director of the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice. She is currently running multiple research projects around researching town/local authority level initiatives co-produced with multiple stakeholders including research. For example, Suna is co-leading the research on building town resilience, Resilience Revolution, in Blackpool, in order to support wellbeing of 10 to 16 year olds and adults around them. Suna’s work has implications for diverse disciplines (health, psychology, psychiatry, education) and across sectors of the system (e.g., research, practice development and policy making).

Tim is Professor of Visual Computing at the Department of Computer Science, University College London, Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and member of the Steering Board of the Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage amongst others. While a computer graphics and computer vision researcher by trade, Tim has a long-standing track record in putting his background in appearance modelling, 3D reconstruction and multi-modal imaging into the service of computational reconstruction and analysis of heritage objects, working with memory institutions and excavations around the world.

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