About me
Rosie Grayburn is the Head of the Scientific Research and Analysis lab at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library and Affiliated Associate Professor in the Winterthur/University of Delaware in Art Conservation, where she teaches conservation science and analytical methodologies to graduate fellows in art conservation. In her current role she facilitates research in a broad variety of materials. Her main areas of research are currently Victorian pigmented bookcloth, and the optimization and study of treatments for silver and silverplate. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow in Conservation Science at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, where she worked with Alan Phenix on greening organic coatings for outdoor bronze sculpture. She is the Research Coordinator for the Sustainability in Conservation’s Greener Solvent Project. Rosie holds a joint PhD in Physics and Analytical Chemistry from Universiteit Gent and the University of Warwick.
