Heritage Science – The Benefits of an Interdisciplinary Approach in Protecting Cultural Heritage (Professor Łukasz Bratasz talks to Ewa Manikowska)

* Łukasz Bratasz is Associate Professor of Heritage Science at the Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków, Poland. He is the former Head of the Sustainable Conservation Lab of the Yale University, USA (2015-2018). He also served as Head of the Laboratory of Analysis and Nondestructive Investigation of Heritage Objects of the National Museum in Kraków (2012-2018). Currently, Professor Bratasz is leader of the Horizon2020 CollectionCare project (https://www.collectioncare.eu) and IPERION-HS (http://www.iperionhs.eu/) and Polish-Norway bilateral GRIEG-Craquelure project (http://heritagescience.edu.pl/en/grieg-2/) funded by Norway Grants and HERIe project supported by Getty Conservation Institute (http://heritagescience.edu.pl/en/nawa-en/). He is laureate of Polish Returns programme of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange. He has gained a number of prestigious recognitions of his work, including Certificate of Outstanding Recognition by Yale University for work on energy efficiency in museums and libraries (2018), and the Grand Prix European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards, category: research for project NOAH’S ARK (2009). ** Ewa Manikowska is Associate Professor at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. She is one of the co-editors of this issue of the “Santander Art and Culture Law Review”, and the leader of the Polish team of the DIGIConflict Project. Professor Manikowska is the author of Photography and Cultural Heritage in the Age of Nationalisms. Europe‘s Eastern Borderlands (1867-1945), Bloomsbury–Routledge, London 2019.