EKATERINI MALEA

Ekaterini Malea, MPhil in Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art (University of Cardiff, U.K.), accredited Conservator by the Greek Ministry of Culture, is Lecturer at the Dept. Conservation of Antiquities & Works of Art (CAWA), University of West Attica (UNIWA), and at the two Postgraduate Courses organised by the CAWA Department: “Museum Studies” (collaboration of UNIWA and University of Athens) and“Conservation of Cultural Heritage”

She is founding member of the “CULTLAB” (CAWA’s Dept. Research Laboratory for the study and conservation of ancient and modern cultural property).

Her main scientific interests lie in the fields of Management and Conservation of Archaeological Finds, Management and Conservation of Ethnographic/Natural History Collections, Diagnosis of Pathology and Conservation of Organic Materials and of Ceramics, Ethical and Deontological issues in Conservation and Museum Practice, Analysis of collagenous materials for the estimation of their state of preservation.

She has worked at numerous archaeological excavations, archaeological sites and various museums, as well as at natural history and ethnographic collections in Greece (Greek Ministry of Culture, Universities’ Archaeological Departments, Foreign Archaeological Schools at Athens and Regional Authorities) and abroad (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Albania, Syria).

She has been trained in transport of Museum objects, in materials’ technology (International Academic Projects, London), in recognising of fibres and weaves in ancient and historic textiles (CIETA Lyon, France), in analysis of collagen (CNRS, France), in parchment condition assessment (Austria), in preservation of natural history wet collections(France).

She has participated as main researcher in twenty-eight national and international research programmes, dealing with recording, documentation and conservation issues and has numerous of scientific presentations and published papers.

She is expert in the decay assessment of collagenic fibres by using the Micro Hot Table Technique (Trained at the School of Conservation, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation). Since 2001 she has been appointed expert representative at the European Committee for Standardization (CEN TC 346 Conservation of Cultural Property). Since 2005 she has been member of the Greek Standardization Technical Committee of ELOT: TE /96, entitled “Conservation of Cultural Heritage”, which is mirror committee to TC/346 of CEN.

She is member at the following societies:ICOM-CC, ICCROM, ICOMOS, ALC (Archaeological Leather Group), Hellenic Archaeometry Committee. Since 2008 she has been member of the Hellenic IIC (International Institute of Conservation) Directory Board.