STAVROULA RAPTI

Stavroula Rapti is a Conservator of Antiquitiesand works as laboratory teaching staff in the Dept of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art (CAWA), University of West Attica. She holds a Master’s degree in Textile Conservation from University of Southampton and a PhD (Chelating agents for removing iron corrosion products from dry composite objects) from the University of Arts London.

She currently teaches the undergraduate modules: “Conservation of Textiles“, “Conservation of archaeological finds”, “Management and Conservation of ethnographic collections” and also postgraduate courses related to conservation and technical analysis of historical and archaeological textiles  and composite objects. She has considerable professional activity in archaeological excavations and ethnographic collections under the authority of Greek Ministry of Culture.

Her research work has been presented and published in various peer reviewed conferences’ proceedings. She has participated in several national and European research programs concerning the conservation of waterlogged organic artefacts and composite objects, as well as cleaning treatments of ethnographic textiles with different methods and new conservation materials and the investigation of the degradation mechanisms of fabricsconstituting the cultural heritage due to environmental parameters.

She is member of the CEN TC/346 Technical Committee for the Standardization of “Conservation of Cultural Heritage”, and as expert of its Greek Mirror Technical Committee for Standardization ELOT:TE/96.

Her research interests include the investigation of degradation of proteinaceous or cellulosic substrates such as textiles, rope, basketry by physicochemical techniques, and the study of new materials and methodologies for their conservation treatments.