Martina Sassoli

PhD Dissertation: 07/03/2018

Curriculum: Forest Economics, Planning and Wood Science

Supervisor: Prof. Marco Fioravanti

Email: martina.sassoli@unifi.it

Office address: via San Bonaventura 13, 50145 Firenze

Phone: 055 275 5615 mobile: 3479511986

Profile

I graduated at the University of Florence in April 2013 where I obtained a Master Degree in Science for Cultural Heritage Conservation (110/110 cum laude). I developed a multidisciplinary approach to scientific problems related to the characterization of the materials of arts, their recovery, preservation, enhancement and enjoyment. I worked as a diagnostic consultant at the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence Dome and now I am attending my last year of PhD in Wood science and technologies.

Research interests and PhD project

My current research focuses on wood aging phenomena and the development of proper conservation strategy for wooden heritage, monitoring emissions from raw materials and from wooden artefacts (VOC analysis by means of PTR-TOF-MS, SPME/GC-MS). More broadly I am interested in wood science and conservation in cultural heritage field, concerning also characterization of the preservative state of the material, using both microscopic (OM optical microscopy) and spectroscopic analyses (FT-IR, NMR).

Conference talks and seminarss

• Identificazione delle specie legnose su campioni provenienti dal cantiere di Lungarno Torrigiani, mediante esame anatomico. Perizia per il Comune di Firenze, ottobre 2016.
• Assessment of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) emission from wood applied to the conservation of wooden musical instrument. Preliminary results. In Proceedings of “Making Wooden Musical Instruments. An integration of different forms of knowledge”, 3^rd Annual Conference Wood MusICK FPS COST Action FP1302, Barcelona 7-9 September 2016.
• The diagnostic for the knowledge of the Baptistery of San Giovanni materials. In: Atti del Convegno Internazionale “Il Battistero di San Giovanni. Conoscenza, diagnostica, conservazione”, Firenze 24-25 November 2014.
• Sassoli M., Bracci S., Picollo M., Salvini A., Vervat M., “Caratterizzazione spettroscopica dei pastelli di Giorgio Kienerk” In: Atti del Convegno di Archeometria AIAr “La Scienza per l’arte contemporanea”, Ferrara, 1-4 Marzo 2011. Ed. F. Petrucci, Patron Editore, Bologna, 2012, pp. 129-136.
• An analytical study of the Lefranc J.-F. Raffaelli pastels in the palette of Giorgio Kienerk, an early 20th-century tuscan painter (autori S. Bracci, M. Picollo, A. Salvini, M. Sassoli, M. Vervat), “From Can to Canvas. Early uses of house paints by Picasso and his contemporaries in the first half of the 20th century”, Marseille 25 - 27 May 2011.