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PIZZA TALK - "UNDERCOVER!"

by cquinto — last modified January 09, 2013 12:08 PM

Ioanna Kakoulli, Chair-UCLA/Getty Conservation Proram, Associate Professor-UCLA Archaeology IDP and UCLA Materials Science

What Pizza Talk
When January 09, 2013
from 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
Where Fowler Museum Building, Room A222
Contact Name Rachel Moy
Contact Email
Contact Phone 310-825-4169
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"Undercover!"

Dr. Ioanna Kakoulli is Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA, with a joint appointment in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. She is also co-director of the Molecular and Nano Archaeology Laboratory at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and founder of the archaeomaterials group.  Dr. Kakoulli operates in the cross-disciplinary field of archaeology and paleoforensics, interfacing material science and archaeology for the study of material culture from the macro to the molecular and submicron length scale. She specializes in non-traditional, novel, non-invasive and non-destructive techniques, and portable imaging and spectroscopic technologies. Her primary research focuses on the study of manufacturing processes and provenance of ancient painting materials (mainly pigments and colorants) of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman period from archaeological sites in the eastern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia and Central Asia.

 

Ioanna Kakoulli

 

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