Francesca Volpi has been a Post-Doc Fellow in the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage at the University of Pavia and in the Arvedi Laboratory of Non-invasive Diagnostics (CISRIC, University of Pavia) since 2021. In 2017 she gained a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Bologna, developing novel biopolymer green gels for the cleaning of artworks and advanced microinvasive analytical methods to evaluate the cleaning efficacy. In 2017 she worked at the CNR-ISAC in Bologna, and in 2018-2020 she was awarded a Post-Doc Research Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, where she joined the group of Preventive Conservation, in the Scientific Department, researching new analytical techniques to rapidly measure the degradation of cellulose in material-testing experiments. Her current research interests are the development of innovative products for cleaning artworks, historical musical instrument analysis, and spectroscopic techniques.