Luana Cuvillier PhD student luana.cuvillier[at]unine.ch

Education

2020-2024: PhD student on the HELIX project : Cleaning of metal artworks using biobased gels amended with microorganisms.
Supervised by Dr. Edith Joseph, Dr. Stephan von Reuss, Dr. Elodie Guilminot.
In collaboration between LATHEMA (Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse), HE-Arc Conservation Restauration (Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Arc’Antique (Nantes, France).

2017-2018: Erasmus at UCT Prague, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czechia

2016-2019: Graduate School of Chemistry, Biology and Physics in Bordeaux, France

2014-2016: Preparatory class in Physics and Chemistry at the University of Bordeaux, France

Professional Experience

2019 (6 months): Master internship

Arc Nucléart, CEA Grenoble, France (Dr.Karine Froment)

« Study of the degradation of metallic tin foil on polychrome medieval sculptures. »

2018 (5 months): Master internship

MacDiarmid Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. (Dr Renee Goreham)

“Electroporation gold nanoparticles in bacterial outer-membrane vesicles ”

2018 (6 months)

« The influence of alkaline cardboard for the storage of silk » at the Departement of Chemical Technology of Monument Conservation conservation. (Dr.Markéta Škrdlantová), Prague, Czechia.