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Claudia Conti, PhD

Senior Researcher
CNR-ISPC
Milano, Lombardia, Italy

Dr Claudia Conti is a senior researcher at the Institute of Heritage Science (ISPC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) where she leads the Raman Spectroscopy Laboratory. Through her PhD in Material Engineering (Milan Polytechnic, 2010), under the direction of Professor Giuseppe Zerbi, and her research at ISPC-CNR, she established expertise in the area of advanced applications of vibrational spectroscopy to the material analysis, in particular, in Cultural Heritage.

She identified critical needs in conservation sciences and searched for innovative solutions. In 2012, she established a major collaboration with Prof. Pavel Matousek to explore a novel tool developed by him that enables Raman sensing deep inside turbid media on macro-scale. She conducted her research through several scientific visits (2014-2018) to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Oxford, UK) that lead to the successful transformation of macro-SORS conceptually to the area of Cultural Heritage and the demonstration of a new SORS variant, micro-SORS, capable of resolving micrometer thick layers of paint for the first time.

Since 2014, Claudia was co-ordinating and managing research activities in micro-SORS at ISPC-CNR. This lead to establishing the feasibility of a simpler variant of micro-SORS (defocusing) applicable readily in the area of cultural heritage and elsewhere. A research into the most potent variant of full micro-SORS was also carried out by her at ISPC-CNR and at the Northwestern University in Chicago where she was a visiting scientist in 2019 developing a research project aimed at combining micro-SORS with Surface Enhance Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for application in Cultural heritage and elsewhere.

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