Jan Wouters Conservation Scientist

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Projects

• 1989 - 1993
  • The conservation of the Codex Eyckensis and of the Liber Evangeliorum from Maaseik, King Baldwin Foundation, Belgium (scientific leader)
• 1991 - 1994
  • Leather Project CT90-0105: Evaluation of the correlation between natural and artificial ageing of vegetable tanned leather and determination of parameters for standardization of an artificial ageing method (European research project; contractant)
• 1995 - 1996
  • Leather Project EV5V-CT94-0514: Deterioration and conservation of vegetable tanned leather (European research project; contractant)
• 1996 - 1998
  • Enviart Project ENV4-CT95-0103 : Baroque artificial marble: environmental impacts, degradation and protection (European research project, contractant)
• 1996 - 1999
  • MAP Project SMT4-CT96-2106: Micromethods for the analysis of parchment (European research project; contractant)
• 1997 - 1998
  • Raphael Dürrnberg Project: Archäologisches Projekt zur Erforschung der Siedlungs- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte des eisenzeitlichen Dürrnberg bei Hallein (European research project;contractant)
• 1999 - 2002
  • Sample quality research programme for radiocarbon dating of bone, Belgium (scientific leader)
• 2000 - 2001
  • DWTC project: Evaluation of methods for the measurement of PH of micro samples, Belgium (scientific leader)
• 2002 - 2005
  • Belgian representative in the Management Committee of COST-G8, a European Programme on Cooperation in Science and Technology, G-8 focusing on Non-destructive Techniques for the Analysis of Museum Objects
• 2002 - 2005
  • Project MODHT EV4K-CT-2001-00048: Monitoring of damage in historic tapestries (European research project; contractant)
• 2003 - 2007
  • Member of the Management Committee of the De Mayerne programme of NWO, The Netherlands
• 2005 - 2008
  • Project EU-ArTech FP6-506171 : Access, Research and Technology for the Conservation of the European Cultural Heritage (European Research Project; contractant)
• 2006 - 2011
  • Asian Organic Colorants project; the Getty Conservation Institute, USA (independent project partner - consultant)