Director of Hamilton Kerr Institute and Deputy Director: Conservation and Heritage Science, Fitzwilliam Museum

Professor Erma Hermens is Director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute for Easel Painting Conservation and Deputy Director Conservation and Heritage Science at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, UK. She brings research teams together comprising (technical) art historians, conservators, scientists, working closely with Fitzwilliam curators and other Cambridge University Departments and Museums. From 2016-2022 she occupied the Rijksmuseum Chair for Studio Practice and Technical Art History, University of Amsterdam, and was a Rijksmuseum senior researcher. Before Amsterdam, as associate professor at the University of Glasgow, she led the Technical Art History group in the Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History, and established the first European MA in Technical Art History. She is a founder and Co-Editor in Chief of ArtMatters: International Journal for Technical Art History and has over 25 years of experience, researching, publishing and lecturing in the interdisciplinary field of Technical Art History. She received many grants and was visiting professor at Renmin University, Beijing, the New University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City and at the Venice Institute for Digital and Public Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. She recently was awarded the prestigious inaugural Brenninkmeijer Senior research Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Email: eh707@cam.ac.uk

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