After her classical studies at Giulio Caesar Lyceum, Valery Tovazzi moved to Viterbo, where she completed a first bachelor’s degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage L-43, having the opportunity to run a project for the conservation of an historical newspaper library with a consequent publication in Equipè Co Journal.

She received a master degree with highest honor in Restoration and Conservation of Cultural heritage LMR/02 from La Tuscia University. During her studies she participated in several restoration projects such as the Façade of S. Donato church in Civita di Bagnoregio and S. Lorenzo in Acquapendente.

Once finished with her studies, she moved back to Rome and joined the restoration of the Lante della Rovere court in Rome as head restorer. Currently, she’s attending a research program as winner of a scholarship in collaboration with La Tuscia University and National Center of Research.

Domizia Colonnello’s experience as a restorer of ceramic artefacts began with her degree at the ICR (Ceramics, Metals and Organic Materials) both in the laboratory and on archaeological excavations. She worked as Conservator - Restorer in conservation projects in Italy and abroad. She specialized in new laser cleaning methods.

Domizia worked in the assistance and recovery of objects and entire tombs on archaeological sites with the block lift technique and micro-excavations of the same in the Laboratory. She has worked as Registrar, Courier and Curator of exhibitions in Italy and abroad. She has taught at Italian universities on the occasion of exhibitions and on foreign projects, describing the methods of restoration and application of conservation techniques on materials such as ceramics and stone on Unesco heritage sites and in international missions (Nepal, Libya, Oman, Denmark, Ethiopia). She has collaborated, both as a freelancer and with her company (De.Co.Re.srl established in 2020) for the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, for Italian and foreign museums, foundations and ministries (Ny Glyptoteck, Unesco, Ethiopian Ministry, and Word Monument Fund).

Alice Rivalta is a conservator-restorer and a goldsmith based in Rome. She received her MA as a conservator-restorer in 2008 from the Istituto Centrale per il restauro in Rome, specializing in the restoration of ceramic, glass, metals and organic materials from archaeological excavation. Through her dissertation thesis and a course in Kyoto, Japan, she specialized in the restoration and conservation of Japanese lacquer.

She has worked as a freelancer for private owners, restoration companies, Museums and the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro of Rome, in Italy and abroad (Iraq, Oman, Spain). In 2011 she spent six months at Ur, Iraq, teaching restoration of ceramic to some employees of the Iraqi Ministry of Culture of Nassiriya.

She has worked for six years at the Ethnological Museum of the Vatican Museums, restoring lacquers, feathers and Chines bronzes.

In 2020, along with other three colleagues, she created the Company De.Co.Re.srl. Since then she has been working mainly on archaeological ceramic and metal finds for Sapienza Università di Roma, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and the Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma.

Gloria Conti worked internationally as a Conservator for over 18 years, both in the public and the private sector.
Introduced to book conservation during a degree course in Library and Archive studies at the University of Urbino, in 2005 she graduated from the European School for Conservator-Restorers in Spoleto, Italy, and started her career in Italy until she moved to the UK two years later.
She has a degree in History and Preservation of Cultural Heritage from the University of Florence and has worked at the National Records of Scotland since 2008 caring for the Scottish national archive collection.

In 2021 she set up her own studio, Charta Conservation, to provide conservation services to libraries, archives, museums, cultural institutions and private owners. As a business owner and freelancer, she works with prominent institutional and private clients nationally and internationally.

She is an Accredited Conservator-Restorer (ACR) with Icon – The Institute of Conservation, and with the Ministry of Culture in Italy (Restauratrice di Beni Culturali).

Gloria is a member of IADA (International Association of Book & Paper Conservators), of Aicrab (Italian Association of Library and Archive Conservators and Curators) and has been a Committee member of the Icon Book & Paper Group.

Francesco Maria Rizzo was born in Erice in 1973. He graduated in Law at University “Carlo Bo” of Urbino, immediately after his master degree he changed subject of studies following his passion: book conservation. He Graduated again in Conservation of books and documents at the European Course for Conservators-Restorers of Book Materials in Spoleto, in 2005. Restorer of Books and documents, pursuant to art. 182 of Legislative Decree 22 January 2004, no. 42 and subsequent amendments, accredited by the MiBACT (Ministero dei Beni e Attivitá Culturali Italiano).

Since 2005, Francesco has worked in many private conservation studios in Italy and Spain, and in important European institutions such the Vatican Library and the National Library of Czech Republic.

Since 2020, Francesco has been running his own conservation studio “Ex Libris” in Trapani .

Since September 2021 he has been teaching as Adjunct Professor at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where he runs two courses: Archival Materials and Flat Items.

Melania Zanetti graduated in Cultural Heritage Preservation at the University of Udine and studied conservation at the European School for conservation of library and archival materials in Spoleto (Italy). She obtained her PhD in Science des matériaux and in Science and Engineering of Materials and Nanostructures at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris (Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation des Collections) in cotutel with the University of Padua, Italy. Her PhD thesis focused on the development of new materials and technologies for the conservation of fire-damaged paper heritage.

Since 1999 she has developed her professional experience working as freelance conservator of documents, manuscripts, printed books and graphic artwork since 1999. Since 2000 she has been teaching «Theory and history of conservation» at the Catholic University in Milan (Faculty of Humanities, Bachelor of Science in Cultural Heritage). Since 2012 she has been teaching «Book and document preservation and conservation» at the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (Department of Humanities. Master's degree in History and Management of the Archival and Bibliographic Heritage).

In 2006 and 2007, she was commissioned by the Italo-Latin American Institute (IILA) within the 'Nicolás Yapuguay' project as the person in charge of setting up the laboratory at the Colegio del Salvador and coordinating training for conservation activities and conservation treatments of the heritage of the Jesuit Collection Library in Buenos Aires (Argentina).

In 2019 she was responsible for organizing and coordinating the teaching and laboratory program of the “Summer School of advanced training in library and archival heritage conservation” at Ca’ Foscari (10.06 - 10.07.2019).

Author of more than 30 articles on the conservation and restoration of archival and book heritage, Melania Zanetti is president of the Italian association of curators (Archivists and Librarians) and conservators of archives and libraries (AICRAB, www. aicrab.org), which she helped found in 2013.

Maria Chiara Abate was born in Cassino (Italy) in 1998 and she is an Italian Conservator.

She graduated with honours in Conservation and Restoration of Library and Archival Material, Paper Artifacts, Photographic, Cinematographic and Digital Material LMR/02 (qualifying single-cycle master's degree) at the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' where she discussed her thesis Book conservation techniques between history and ethics: five case-studies from the Corsiniana Library'. Her research focused on the evolution of book conservation techniques and she performed conservation treatments on some books affected by damages created by old repairs. She applied the ethics of 'minimal intervention' and through historical and diagnostic analysis she dated all old repairs to a specific historical period.

Chiara has worked with individual conservation companies and public Institutions in several cities of Italy; she has also collaborated with important Conservation Institutions, including the Vatican Library.

She has previous experience as a teaching assistant: she tought lectures and workshops in the course "Historical bookbinding, structure and conservation of books" as part of the summer program of the International Institute for Restoration and Preservation Studies of Brooklyn.

Currently she works as Conservator and she is a Researcher in the "National Ph.D program in Cultural Heritage Science" at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Her Ph.D research is focused on medieval recycled fragments and the role of the conservator in their preservation.

She is a conservator of cultural heritage graduated in 2021 at the Istituto Centrale di Restauro (ICR), in Rome. She is specialized in “Stone and stone by-products; decorated architectural surface”. During her thesis she focused her attention on the handling of high weight marble statues and casting techniques.

Since the early years of her studies Sofia worked on different kinds of artifacts, like wall paintings, sculptures and mosaics. By attending architectural workisite around Italy, she developed skills of coordination and collaboration between people and schedule organization.

In 2019 she attended an internship in Paris focused on the conservation of objects painted on wooden and textiles supports. Recently she contributed in a webinar about “3D Print and Reverse Engineering. Tools and methodologies on conservation.”

Since 2021 works as a professional restorer for private conservation and restoration companies, overall in Rome. She’s been involved in several project such as the restauration of the external facade of the Doria Panphijli palace, and the marble statues which decorate the Michelangelo’s cloister in the Diocletian baths. she’s currently working at the plan of maintenance of the archaeological park of Herculaneum (Naples).

She has previous experience as Teaching Assistant in the course of “Touching the Stones, Restoration and Analysis of Historic Buildings” and “Traditional Painting Materials, Methods and Restoration Issues” in the summer school program of the International Institute of Restoration and Preservation Studies (SGPS).

Fabiola Vitali graduated in July 2013 with the title of Master of arts at the Isa Midossi State Institute of Art in Civita Castellana where she acquired mastery of all traditional and modern artistic techniques.

In July 2020 she graduated with honors in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the University of Tuscia, where she discussed his innovative degree thesis concerning the use of recycled cork stoppers for the restoration of wooden artifacts.

She published two scientific articles: the first relating to the investigations carried out during the thesis on the wooden sculpture depicting ‘’Saint Anthony the Abbot’’: Vitali F., Caldi C., Benucci M., Marzaioli F., Seccaroni C., De Ruggieri B., Romagnoli M., The vernacular sculpture of Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Colle del Duomo Museum in Viterbo (Italy). Wood dating and diagnostics. Journal of cultural heritage, volume 48, pp 299-304. The second related to the results obtained from the PICUS project: Giosuè C., Mariani F.,Vitali F., Pogliani P. The "PICUS'' system in the detection of defects on painted boards and wooden boards. 2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) October 10-13, 2022. Another article is currently being published: Recycled cork, a new green methodology for wood restoration artifacts. Application case on the polychrome sculpture of Saint Anthony the Abbot of the Colle del Duomo Museum in Viterbo, in the international book project entitled "Innovative Solutions and New Paradigms on Conservation of Cultural Heritage: Approaches and Practices'' which will be published by Istanbul University Press.

Specialized in the conservation and restoration of wooden artifacts, paintings on canvas and polymaterials works, she works with her individual company throughout the national and international territory, collaborating with other specialized companies. Among the most important works she participated at the restoration of wooden gilding altar conserved in the deposit of the Opera del Duomo Museum in Orvieto and at the restoration of the papier mache sculpture depicting ‘’Madonna of Mercedes’’ by Giuseppe Manzo, also she collaborated at the restoration of a painting on canvas ‘’Immacolata Concezione’’ attributed to Bernardino Brozzi.

Her work experience is also full of collaborations in the restoration of wall paintings and stone surfaces. Among the most important works, she collaborated at the restoration of the crypt of ‘’San Michele’’ in Arpino and at the restoration of a wall painting palimpsest in Venafro. She currently collaborates in the creation, from scratch, of 33 gilding panels for the ceiling of the ''Salle XII'' in the United Nations Building, the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva in Switzerland, where she has already worked, collaborating in the restoration of some polychrome marbles.