Talks

This page lists the communications given as first author and presenter

International conferences

  • Invited speaker : 10th International Symposium on Metallomics (Paris, FR, October 2025)
    Investigating the reactivity of historical lead-based inorganic pigments

  • Invited speaker: International Conference on IMAGING (Varenna, IT, September 2025)
    Multi-scale X-ray imaging to study historical inorganic pigments

  • Invited speaker: Rencontres de Chimie Physique (Aussois, FR, September 2025)
    Deciphering the synthesis, formulation and alteration of historical pigments at the multi-scale

  • Invited speaker: Workshop « Chromatismes – Perspectives interdisciplinaires (Gif-sur-Yvette, FR, April 2025)
    Chimie de quelques pigments jaunes utilisés en peinture à l’huile : de la formulation à l’altération

  • TECHNART 2025 Conference – International Conference on Analytical Techniques for Heritage Studies and Conservation (Perugia, IT, May 2025)
    Structure-color relationships in cobalt-based inorganic purple pigments used in the 20th c.

  • Journey into the Ageing & Alterations of Paintings (JAAP) Conference (Amsterdam, NL, April 2025)
    Linking Lead White Reactivity with its Microstructural Features: A Spectroscopic and Micro-Chemical Imaging Approach

  • Invited speaker: IConS 2024 Conference – International Conservation and Science Conf. (Budapest, HGR, October 2024)
    Probing the synthesis, use and alteration of inorganic pigments via microscopic techniques

  • International symposium on the practice of Robert Delaunay and his contemporaries (Paris, FR, April 2023)
    Probing Robert Delaunay’s purple palette using chemical analysis

  • Invited speaker: SR2A 2023 Conference – International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation and Neutrons in Art and Archaeology (Munich, DE, November 2023)
    Structural analysis of historical pigments using synchrotron radiation 

  • SCF 2023 Congress – Congrès de la Société Française de Chimie (Nantes, FR, June 2023)
    Retrieving Missing Links Between the Chemical Synthesis, Optical Properties and Reactivity of Modern Pictorial Matter

  • Invited speaker: TECHNART 2023 Conference – International Congress Chemistry for Cultural Heritage (Lisboa, PT, May 2023)
    Investigating the synthesis, use and alteration of historical pigments at the multi-scale 

  • EXRS 2022 Conference – European Conference on X-ray Spectrometry (Brugges, BE, June 2022)
    Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction studies of Leonardo da Vinci’s inorganic pigments

  • Invited speaker: Operation Night Watch Symposium –Technological Innovations and Scientific Results on Rembrandt’s Night Watch (Amsterdam, NL, April 2022)
    Deciphering the in-situ Formation of Lead-based Compounds in The Night Watch using Synchrotron Studies

  • Invited speaker: Lorentz Center workshop « Green conservation materials for European heritage » (online, November 2021)
    Spectral and structural imaging as a way to characterize artworks and conservation treatments

  • Invited speaker: Challenges before time. 150 years of painting conservation (online, November 2021)
    Tracking the in-situ formation of inorganic compounds in historical paintings using synchrotron radiation

  • Invited speaker: ESRF-EBS Cultural and Natural Heritage Workshop (Grenoble, FR, January 2020)
    Structural studies of historical inorganic pigments using synchrotron radiation: capacities and future applications

  • Invited speaker: Léonard de Vinci, l’expérience de l’art, Musée du Louvre (Paris, Fr, October 2019)
    Revealing the material and technical choices of Leonardo da Vinci using chemical analysis

  • Technart 2019 Conference – Non-destructive and microanalytical techniques in Cultural Heritage (Brugges, BE, May 2019)
    Deciphering Rembrandt’s impasto via identification of unusual plumbonacrite

  • SR2A 2018 Conference – Synchrotron Radiation and neutrons in Art and Archaeology (Portsmouth, UK, September 2018)
    Deciphering Rembrandt’s impasto with multi-modal synchrotron X-ray diffraction

  • LACONA 2018 Conference – Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks (Paris, FR, September 2018)
    From the micro to the macro-scale: laser-induced photoluminescence to study of historical pigments

  • TECHNART 2017 Conference – Non-destructive and microanalytical techniques in art and cultural heritage (Bilbao, ES, May 2017)
    Synchrotron study of microstructure and luminescence of pigments: revealing the Old Masters materials qualities

  • CHEM-CH 2016 Conference – 4th International Congress Chemistry for Cultural Heritage (Brussels, BE, April 2016)
    Probing the history of lead white pigments by their luminescence properties

  • AIEA Technical Meeting – Investigating heritage materials with safer ion and photon beam experiments (Paris, FR, December 2015)
    New insights into the sensitivity of lead white pigment to a proton beam

  • LAIS 2015 Conference – Luminescence in Archaeology International Symposium (Paris, FR, September 2015)
    Photoluminescence of lead carbonates pigments

  • TECHNART 2015 conference – Non-destructive and microanalytical techniques in art and cultural heritage (Catania, IT, May 2015)
    Composition and microstructure of the lead white pigment in Masters paintings using HR-SR-XRD

  • IBAF 2014 Conference – 5th meeting: Fast ions beams analysis (Obernai, FR, October 2014)
    Damages induced by a proton beam in easel paintings lead white

Invited seminars

  • Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (C2N), U. Paris-Saclay (October 2024)

  • ACS Webinars (June 2024)

  • Groupe d’Étude de la Matière Condensée (GEMAC), UVSQ, Versailles, FR (December 2023)

  • Courtauld Institute, London, UK (May 2022)

  • IPANEMA, Saclay, France (January 2020)

  • Center for Cultural Heritage Technology (CCHT@Ca’Foscari), Venise, IT (October 2019)

  • Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, NL (November 2019), general public lecture

  • Operation Night Watch kick-off symposium, Amsterdam, NL (June 2018), general public lecture

  • NICAS Colloquium, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL (November 2017)

  • TU-Delft, 3mE Group, Delft, NL (October 2017)

  • National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA (November 2017)

  • Politecnico di Milano, Department of Physics, Milano, IT (January 2016)

  • LeadART European projet, Amsterdam, NL (December 2015)

  • U. Antwerpen, AXIS Research Group, Antwerp, BE (June 2015)