About me
Following a degree in natural sciences and two years of experience in industrial ceramics research, David Thickett joined the British Museum in 1990 with a specialism in preventive conservation and inorganic materials conservation research. Moving to English Heritage in 2003 as Senior Conservation Scientist, David focuses mainly on preventive conservation research, gaining his PhD in archaeological conservation and chemistry in 2012. His recent projects have focused on historic house environments, acoustic emission, collections demography and epidemiology, non-destructive testing, microclimate frames and optical coherence tomography.
