SustainCARE brings together heritage science, building physics, advanced modelling, and climate-conscious preservation, offering a unique opportunity to contribute to an internationally visible, high-impact ERC project. We aim to develop a holistic, multiscale understanding of how documentary heritage objects interacts with its environment— explaining the mechanisms of natural ageing, linking molecular processes to repository conditions, and revealing the environmental resilience of documentary heritage. As a member of this team, you will not just be studying the past; you will be building the tools to protect its future, developing sustainable strategies that democratise preservation and open entirely new research horizons in a changing climate. The successful candidate will develop a multiscale hygrothermal framework to simulate coupled heat and moisture transport from the repository scale down to the object level. A primary focus will be quantifying the passive buffering capacity of objects and storage systems—a critical but often overlooked mechanism for energy-efficient, climate-conscious preservation. By adapting methods from building physics, you will bridge the gap between room-scale dynamics and micro-environments of documentary heritage objects, translating complex simulation data into actionable conservation strategies.
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