About me
Dr David Saunders FSA FIIC. Honorary Research Fellow and formerly Keeper of Conservation and Scientific Research at the British Museum. Honorary Researcher at the National Gallery, London. After postdoctoral research in chemistry, he began his conservation career in the Scientific Department at London’s National Gallery. He has twice been a guest scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles and was also its inaugural Getty Rothschild Fellow. He has been a visiting professor at UCL and NYU. His research focuses on non-invasive analysis, the effect of the environment (particularly light) on museum objects and sustainable preventive conservation.
