Professional profile
Conservation Scientist | XRD data analyst | XRF data analyst | Digital heritage specialist | Material scientist
After the PhD in Earth Sciences, from 2016 to 2021, I worked at Sapienza University and the ICR in Rome. From 2021 to 2023 I was hired by the University of Glasgow, Scotland, as research associate in the project PISTACHIO, focusing on materials science and the development of a HSI system in the MID-IR applied to the study of paint materials. Since 2023, I have been conducting research at the XRAYLab of CNR ISPC and collaborating with the MOLAB platform of E-RIHS.it, the Italian node of the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS). My research focuses on the application of advanced mobile X-ray spectroscopy techniques for the non-destructive physico-chemical characterization of cultural heritage, at both macroscopic and microscopic scales, and their remotization within the HyMOLAB platform within the national PNRR project H2IOSC. I have participated in several in situ campaigns in collaboration with museums and conservation centers, studying paintings and masterpieces such as the frescoes of the Brancacci Chapel and artworks by Raphael, Botticelli, and Caravaggio.
MUR Italian Scientific-Disciplinary Sector
- ARCH-01/A Prehistory and Protohistory
- GEOS-01/D Mineral Resources and Mineralogical-Petrographic Applications for the Environment and Cultural Heritage
Groups & Labs CNR ISPC
XRAYLab →
Publications
Highlight
M. Botticelli, R. Andolina, M. Cardinali, A. Cerasuolo, S. Gammino, C. Miliani, Z. Preisler, E. L. Ravan, G. Santagati, F. P. Romano, A. Zezza, C. Caliri (2025) Raphael seen through MA-XRF: understanding the master and his atelier by studying the Capodimonte collection, Journal of Cultural Heritage, accepted (in press)
T. Cavaleri, P. Buscaglia, E. Ferraris, M. Gargano, M. Botticelli, F. P. Romano, C. Caliri (2024). Discovering manganese-based blacks in the grave goods of Kha and Merit (Egypt, 1450-1400 BCE): Multidisciplinary investigation on use and nature, Dyes and Pigments, 231, p. 112400, ISSN 0143-7208, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2024.112400
M. Botticelli, C. Miliani, E.L. Ravan, C. Caliri, F.P. Romano (2024). Naples Yellow Revisited: Insights into Trades and Use in 17th-Century Sicily from the Macro X-ray Fluorescence Scanning of Matthias Stomer’s ‘The Mocking of Christ’. Heritage, 7, pp. 1188-1201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7030057
