Claudia Pelosi is Associate Professor in Chemistry for Environment and Cultural Heritage (CHEM-01/B) at
the University of Tuscia (UNITUS) in Viterbo (Italy). She has a long experience in cultural heritage field
where she operated since 1991 when started her academic activities in the Institute of Applied Science
to cultural heritage in the first Italian Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage. She
worked in several research projects. Between the most relevant it is worth to note that in Mandalya
Gulf (Turkey) from 1996 to 2004 and in Cappadocia from 2005 to the present, aimed to investigate, to
restore and preserve the byzantine wall painting in the church of Küçük Tavşan Adası and in the
extraordinary rupestrian contests in Cappadocia.
She has been actively collaborated to the institution of the Technological District of Cultural Heritage of
Lazio Region (DTC Lazio) and to the activities, both research projects and training.
Claudia Pelosi is responsible of 5 research groups, approved by her department, and various research
projects to explore issues related to the diagnostics and restoration of cultural heritage, such as
CHANGES and Rome Technopole projects within the PNRR framework.
She obtained the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in Analytical Chemistry (D.D.
553/2021 and 589/2021) with validity from 01/06/2022 to 01/06/2034.
She is co-author of 125 scientific papers indexed on Scopus (h-index=25,
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=22836449900)
1 SteadyPick (New technologies for
cultural heritage diagnostics and
documentation)
Coordinatore Unitus (2019-2021)
2 EVER (Extracts from wood in
ancient old-growth forests for a
possible innovative use in the
restoration of cultural heritage)
Coordinatore del Progetto (2021-
2023)
3 COLD (The Museum of Colle del
Duomo in Viterbo within the
homonymous monumental
complex: integrated approach to
the conservation, valorisation,
monitoring, 3D documentation
and multispectral imaging, all
Coordinatore di COLD (2023-
2026)
aiming to evaluate the
microclimate and restoration
impact on different typologies of
artifacts) inside the PE 5
CHANGES “Cultural Heritage
Active Innovation for Sustainable
Society", Spoke 7
1 Pelosi, C.; Cristofori, M.; Lanteri, L.; Capriotti, G.;
Casoli, A.; Potenza, M.; Sardara, M.; Sodo, A. A
Reasoned Diagnostic Procedure to Support the
Restoration of the 17th Century Stucco Altar
Dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel in
Barbarano Romano (Viterbo, Italy). Coatings 2026,
16, 142. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings16010142
2 Montanari, R.; Murase, H.; Alberghina, M.F.;
Schiavone, S.; Pelosi, C. The Origin of KO-KUTANI
Porcelain—Part II: The Unearthed Secrets of the
Hakuji Shallow Bowl. Coatings 2025, 15, 1007.
https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings15091007.
3 Lanteri, L.; Pelosi, C.; Pogliani, P. Three-
Dimensional Ultraviolet Fluorescence Imaging in
Cultural Heritage: A Review of Applications in
Multi-Material Artworks. J. Imaging 2025, 11, 245.
https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging11070245.
4 Tovazzi, V.; Pelosi, C.; Falcucci, C.; Gittins, M.;
Lanteri, L. Diagnostics and Analytical Campaign as
Support for the Restoration Activity of a 14th-
Century Mural Painting Representing the Virgo
Lactans. Heritage 2025, 8, 64.
https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage8020064
5 T. Cavaleri, C. Pelosi, C. Caliri, P.F. Romano, C.
Colantonio, L. Lanteri, G. Calabrò, A. Piccirillo, B.
Ventura, S. De Blasi, C. Riedo, D. Scalarone. Tracing
the history of past treatments: A multi-analytical
study of a 16th-century panel painting copy after
Raphael. Journal of Cultural Heritage 2024, 66, 142-
154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2023.11.010.
for artworks, multispectral imaging, paintings, sculptures, wood
artifacts, natural and artificial stone
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