Lecturer, Faculty for the Built Environment
Born in Italy in 1986, Dr Chiara Pasian is a wall painting conservator and currently Lecturer in the Department of Conservation and Built Heritage at the University of Malta, where she teaches at the MSc course in the Conservation of Decorative Architectural Surfaces, and supervises students in field projects. Pasian is strongly interested in applied scientific research and holds a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Before joining the University of Malta, she has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland and at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Beside academic research, she also works as an on-site conservator. She has being involved in projects in collaboration with different private and academic institutions (such as University of Tuscia, Italy and the Courtauld institute of Art, London) in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Selected Publications:
- Pasian, M. Secco, F. Piqué, S. Rickerby, G. Artioli, S. Cather. 2018. Lime-based injection grouts with reduced water content: An assessment of the effects of the water-reducing agents ovalbumin and ethanol on the mineralogical evolution and properties of grouts. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 30, 70-80
- Pasian, F. Piqué, A. Jornet. 2017. ‘Non-structural injection grouts with reduced water content: Changes induced by the partial substitution of water with alcohol’. Studies in Conservation, 62(1), 43-54
- Pasian, M. Secco, F. Piqué, S. Rickerby, G. Artioli, S. Cather. 2016. ‘Performance of grouts with reduced water content: the importance of porosity and related properties’. In: Proceedings of the 4th Historic Mortars Conference (HMC 2016), 10-12.10.2016 Santorini, Greece, pp. 639-646
- Pasian, F. Piqué, A. Jornet. 2016. ‘Non-structural injection grouts with reduced water content: Changes induced by the partial substitution of water with alcohol’. In: Proceedings of the 4th Historic Mortars Conference (HMC 2016), 10-12.10.2016 Santorini, Greece, pp. 564-571
- Pasian, F. Piqué, A. Jornet, A. Padovnik. 2016. ‘Repeatability and reproducibility in measuring injection grouts properties: three grouts, two operators’. In: Proceedings of the 4th Historic Mortars Conference (HMC 2016), 10-12.10.2016 Santorini, Greece, pp. 598-605