Getty Welcomes Nine New Residents to Its Conservation Guest Scholars Program

The Conservation Guest Scholars program, now in its 27th year, provides opportunities for established scholars as well as professionals who have attained distinction in the cultural heritage conservation field.

Recipients are in residence at the Conservation Institute for a three-month or six-month term, in which they pursue their own projects free from work-related obligations, make use of research collections at the Getty Center and Getty Villa, and participate with other Getty scholars, fellows, and interns in the intellectual life of Getty.

2026–2027 Conservation Guest Scholars

In-Souk Cho is an independent scholar in Seoul, South Korea. Her proposed research aims to develop an illustrated conservation guide that integrates historical analysis with practical repair techniques, focusing on wooden architectural heritage in Korea from the 19th to early 20th centuries.

Repairing Architectural Heritage: Traditional Wooden Structures in Korea (19th–Early 20th Century) – Illustrated Guidance for Conservation and Repair
(January–March)

Enrico Garbin is senior researcher at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Condensed Matter Chemistry and Technologies for Energy (ICMATE). His research centers on the structural conservation and restoration of built heritage, historic construction materials, and sustainable materials for historical and contemporary buildings.

Design Methods, Repair and Strengthening Techniques for Historical Masonry Buildings: A Textbook Addressing Structural Restoration Techniques for Masonry Built Heritage
(April–June)

Hannah Lewi is professor in architecture at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include Australian architectural history, 20th-century design and conservation, heritage theory, and the use of media in interpreting historic places.

Keeping House: New Ways of Understanding, Conserving and Documenting Historic and Heritage Houses
(October–December)

Loa Ludvigsen is an independent scholar in Vanløse, Denmark. Her research explores artists’ materials and techniques through analytical photography, with a focus on the structure of paintings.

Technical Imaging of Hammershøi’s Material Practice
(January–March)

Daniela Marcondes is an independent scholar in São Paulo, Brazil. Her research is in data-driven climate management strategies for museums in subtropical climates, using a São Paulo case study to balance collection preservation, visitor comfort, and energy efficiency.

Strategies for climate management in exhibition spaces: case study in a museum in São Paulo
(September–December)

Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Reyes is director at the Research Center for Heritage Conservation at the Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia - UTEC, Lima, Peru. His research centers on understanding and preventing the deterioration of cultural materials—particularly stone and metals—in the Andean region through scientific analysis and conservation practice.

A Scientific Roadmap for Sustainably Conserving South America's Stone Heritage
(September–December)

Nuria Sanz is senior researcher in the Institute for Scientific Archaeology Department for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology at Tubingen University, Germany. Her research aims to underscore and strengthen the role of international cooperation in the preservation of Pleistocene heritage by bringing academia closer to multilateral practice in the field of biocultural heritage of human evolution, to guarantee the preservation of the early traces of the cultural diversity of humankind.

The Heritage of Pleistocene Archaeology: The role of the World Heritage Convention in establishing international standards for research and conservation of Pleistocene sites
(April–June)

Noushin Shahidzadeh is professor in the Institute of Physics, Van der Waals Zeeman Institute, at University of Amsterdam. Her research area is multiscale studies of material dynamics driven by liquid flow and the transport of ions and additives in porous media, linking fundamental processes to applications such as the preservation of cultural heritage.

Multimineral Salt Crystallization in Cultural Heritage: From Fundamental Mechanisms to Conservation Practice
(January–March)

Chen Yang is associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, China. His research focuses on the intelligent conservation and contemporary reinterpretation of cultural landscape heritage through advanced technologies, developing new paradigms for safeguarding, managing, and sustaining heritage in the digital era.

Developing an Inventory Framework for Intelligent Management of World Heritage Cultural Landscapes in China
(April–June)