Claudia Pelosi is Associate Professor in Chemistry for Environment and Cultural Heritage (CHEM-01/B) at the University of Tuscia (UNITUS) in Viterbo (Italy). She has a long experience in cultural heritage field where she operated since 1991 when started her academic activities in the Institute of Applied Science to cultural heritage in the first Italian Faculty of Conservation of Cultural Heritage. She worked in several research projects. Between the most relevant: that in Mandalya Gulf (Turkey) from 1996 to 2004 and in Cappadocia from 2005 to the present, aimed to investigate, to restore and preserve the byzantine wall painting in the church of Küçük Tavşan Adası and in the extraordinary rupestrian contests of Cappadocia. She has been actively collaborated to the institution of the Technological District of Cultural Heritage of Lazio Region (DTC Lazio) and to the activities, both research projects and training. Claudia Pelosi is responsible of 5 research groups, approved by her department, and various research projects to explore issues related to the diagnostics and restoration of cultural heritage, such as CHANGES and Rome Technopole projects within the PNRR framework. She obtained the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in Analytical Chemistry (D.D. 553/2021 and 589/2021) with validity from 01/06/2022 to 01/06/2034. She is co-author of 131 scientific papers indexed on Scopus (h-index=26, https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=22836449900)
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The award was attributed in January 2025 for the project Microclimate Monitoring in small museums.