For the first time, we are going beyond featuring an experiment conducted on one of the beamlines of SOLEIL: we invite you to follow along on the journey of a doctoral student, during the 3 years of her PhD!
Her name: Julie Gordon, chemist, PhD student at MONARIS (Sorbonne Université/CNRS) laboratory and SOLEIL synchrotron.
Her thesis topic: to study the painted metal objects from the “Musée des Arts et Métiers “, in order to understand their alteration and improve their preservation.
Her research settings: the Musée des Arts et Métiers and collections, SOLEIL synchrotron and the MONARIS laboratory, as well as partner laboratories of the project.
To introduce you to her PhD project, named "CoPaiM" (Conservation of Painting on Metal), discover the trailer of the series and get to know Julie, her work environment, and also the film crew!
To be continued until 2021...
Available episode:
- Episode 1 - Musée des Arts et Métiers
Julie's PhD thesis
Audio Transcription
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Julie Gordon, doctoral student, specialist of painted metal artifacts.
Three years with our cameras.
Julie Gordon:
"I have always loved History.
When friends or anybody else ask me what my thesis is about, I tell them that it's a combination of chemistry and history. 80% of the time, when I tell people that I study chemistry, they say that it was the subject that they hated the most in school.
I reply: "sometimes in museums you see objects that are deteriorating, to figure out these deterioration patterns and maintain these objects for the years to come, we need to use chemistry." "
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Sample from painted metal artifact.
The x-rays will be here.
Julie Gordon:
“Is it okay, is it in the beam now?”
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Brainstorming for the series.
The journalist.
The cameraman:
"We thought, it could be a short series, not in the traditional documentary format, that we could indulge in little unexpected, improvised stuff."
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The cameraman in the field.
Science in action.
The cameraman:
"We need to summarise here. We can't just say: "we're going for a walk, and, oh, look at that bike over there, in 100 years, it will be (I'm talking nonsense) in the same condition as the one in this little sample, or maybe it will be better preserved... "
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Julie’s PhD thesis
A series presented by Synchrotron SOLEIL
To be continued up to 2021...
Project funded by synchrotron SOLEIL and the Ile-de-France Region through a research grant within the framework of the Field of major interest (DIM) "Ancient and Heritage Materials".