Please join us as we offer our congratulations to Dr. Coppola and Dr. Ebeid, who were awarded the highly competitive and prestigious Marie Skłodowska Curie fellowships for their proposals UNCERTIR and ISLAPAP, and are joining the HSLL team in the course of 2021. Dr Floriana Coppola joins us from the University of Bologna where she …
Welcome Dr. Coppola and Dr. Ebeid, our Marie Curie Fellows! Read More »
In a large-scale collaborative effort, researchers from seven European heritage research institutions conducted a comprehensive investigation into the variations of Oddy test protocols. The results of this study, published in the Heritage Science journal, shed light on key factors that influence the reliability and consistency of this widely used method. Introduced in 1973, the Oddy …
HSLL Oddy Test Compares Favourably, Confirms Interlaboratory Study Read More »
L’Oréal Adria and the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO presented the L’Oréal-UNESCO National Programme “For Women in Science” 2024 Awards yesterday. For 18 years, the programme has been highlighting the importance and role of women in science and rewarding their scientific excellence. The prize was awarded to three promising young researchers, chemist Tjaša Rijavec, physicist …
Tjaša Rijavec Wins the L’Oreal – UNESCO »For Women in Science« Award Read More »
As part of the research activities of the Horizon Europe GreenArt project and inspired by the EU Green Deal, the Heritage Science Lab Ljubljana has formulated and published a set of ”9 principles of green heritage science”, taking into account the complexity of the research challenges as well as environmental and socio-economic sustainability. The principles …
Lana Nastja Anžur, a PhD student at Heritage Science Laboratory, was granted the American Slovenian Foundation Fellowship. The purpose of the fellowship program is to strengthen research and study exchange between Slovenia and other countries; to give talented Slovenian students the ability to realize their potential to the fullest. Fellows are engaged in tutorial program, …
American Slovenian Foundation Fellowship awarded to Lana Nastja Anžur Read More »
We are pleased to announce the public presentation of doctoral dissertation by Tjaša Rijavec. You are cordially invited to join us at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Večna pot 113, on Wednesday, 10th January 2024, at 2 pm in Lecture Room 1. The title of her dissertation is “Characterisation and degradation of poly(vinyl chloride) in …
Invitation: Dissertation Defense by Tjaša Rijavec Read More »
The Programme Group N-DAD addresses key challenges in analytical chemistry, such as non-destructive spatially resolved analysis and data-driven diagnostics, delivering knowledge and skills for the chemical, engineering and related sectors where clear gaps have been identified. By (i) focussing on analytical problems associated with extreme compositional and structural complexity, whether in materials research, environment, food …
The Heritage Science Lab Ljubljana was recently awarded a stable funding grant in what was an exceptionally competitive call managed by the University of Ljubljana. So-called Programme Group funding is made available to research groups with evidence of sustained excellence demonstrated through grant funding, as well as academic, professional, industrial, artistic and public engagement impact. …
HSLL researchers collaborated with Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, and the Sichuan Museum, Chengdu, China, as well as with UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage, UK, in what is a pioneering piece of research into the material properties of 19th–20th century Tibetan paper. Most of the available research into Tibetan paper focuses on the earliest books from …
Every year, the University of Ljubljana selects the ten most prominent research achievements among the proposals received from several members of the University, based on aspects, including impact, comprehensiveness, and applicability. This year, the research into the dating of historical books using near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic data and machine learning was chosen as one of the …
Research into dating of historical books receives award Read More »
Picture 1: (from left to right) Dr. Manar El-Khial, Ain Shams University, Prof. Dr. Mojca Ramšak, University of Ljubljana, Prof. Dr. Ali Abdelhalim, General Director of the Egyptian Museum, Emma Paolin, PhD student, University of Ljubljana, Prof. Dr. Abdelrazek Elnaggar, University of Ljubljana Three members of the HSLL research team, Emma Paolin, Dr. Abdelrazek Elnaggar …
