Biography
Costanza Miliani earned her Bachelor's Degree (1995) and PhD (1999) in Chemical Sciences from the University of Perugia, and an Executive Master of Business Administration (2019) in Management of Research Infrastructures from the University of Milan-Bicocca. She is the author of over 140 articles on the physical chemistry of materials relevant to cultural heritage (H index = 43, over 5,000 citations, from Google Scholar), co-editor of the volume "Science and Art. The painted surface" published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, and is on the editorial board of the open-access journal "Heritage." Principal Investigator of regional, national, and European research projects in the field of Heritage Science, Costanza Miliani is currently coordinator of the European mobile platform MOLAB, which provides access to non-invasive mobile laboratories for researchers working in the field of Heritage Science, and coordinator of the Italian node of E-RIHS (European Research Infrastructure in Heritage Science). He is a member of the board of directors of the SMAArt (Scientific Methodologies applied to Archaeology and Art) Center of Excellence at the University of Perugia and of the scientific committee of the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts at Northwestern University of Chicago.