The Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the Protrusion Project, led by principal investigator Dr. Joen Hermans. This project falls within a larger research line aiming for an improved understanding of the mechanisms of change in oil paintings. The AHM is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR). The position is embedded in the Programme Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage. The Programme Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage hosts the only academic conservation training programme in the Netherlands. It is affiliated to the Netherlands Institute for Conservation, Art and Science (NICAS), and shares it conservation and research laboratories with the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. The Protrusion Project focuses on an important alteration phenomenon that affects a large fraction of the world’s oil paintings: the formation of metal soap protrusions. Despite decades of research on this phenomenon, the mechanisms and conditions that trigger protrusion formation have proven rather difficult to resolve. To gain understanding of the ways in which paint composition, environmental conditions or conservation treatments affect the formation of metal soap protrusions, and to help conservators to mitigate or prevent the problem of their formation, the ability to replicate protrusion growth under controlled conditions is crucial.
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