About me
Lucilla Ronai is a professional paper conservator with over ten years of international and national industry experience. This includes professional positions and extensive professional development in Australia, USA, China, Italy, and Ireland. In 2014 she obtained a postgraduate qualification from the University of Melbourne and has subsequently worked at the State Library of Queensland, Library of Trinity College Dublin, Australian National Maritime Museum and the National Library of Australia. Currently she is an Assistant Lecturer, Paper Conservation at the University of Melbourne teaching in the Master of Cultural Materials Conservation course.
Lucilla is passionate about communicating conservation and career highlights include:Named 2021 Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material Conservator of the YearObtaining Professional Membership to the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (2019)Publishing a peer-reviewed, open access journal article in Heritage Science with research partnersReceiving the competitive 2019 Darling Travel Grant/Global to travel around the USA to research the Cellulose Acetate and Nitrate (CAN) ProjectInvited by The Institute of Conservation (Scotland) to teach online workshops on Creating Conservation VideosInvited guest speaker on The C Word: The Conservators’ Podcast to speak about conservation videos and outreachCreating a dedicated conservation YouTube channel ‘The Conservation Starter’ to share conservation with the public and share information with the conservation community.
