Francesca Caterina Izzo is an Associate Professor in Heritage and Conservation Science at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She received a European PhD in Chemical Science at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2011. Since 2012, she has been working as an academic researcher in conservation science for contemporary art in Venice, collaborating with several Italian and international organizations and institutions (such as the International Gallery of Modern Art Ca’ Pesaro of Venice, the Venice Biennale, the Triennale Design Museum of Milan, and the Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency). She is on the board of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) for the division of Chemistry of the Environment and Cultural Heritage, head of the SCI working group “Diagnostics for Cultural Heritage”, and a member of AIA, the Italian Association of Archaeometry, which awarded her the Improta Prize in 2017 for being the best young researcher in the field of cultural heritage studies.