PhD Student

Faculty of Science & Technology

• E-mail: federica.amato@ehu.eus

Federica Amato holds a degree in Science and Technology for the Study and Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Information Media (Università degli Studi di Milano, 2016, summa cum laude), where she investigated biological methods for removing salt and heavy metal deposits from historical surfaces.

In 2020, she earned a Master’s degree in Science and Technology for the Study and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (summa cum laude) from the Università La Sapienza di Roma, focusing on corrosion protection strategies for artistic steels within the European project InnovaConcrete (Horizon 2020).

Between 2021 and 2022, she carried out a research internship at the Vatican Museums, focusing on diagnostic and conservation approaches that combined imaging and spectroscopy applied in situ to artworks.

From 2023 to 2024, she worked as a researcher at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Ås, Norway), contributing to the European project PHOTONFOOD (Horizon 2020), where she focused on hybrid modeling and chemometric analysis of spectroscopic data.

She is currently pursuing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Scientific Strategies in Heritage and Landscape at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Her doctoral research integrates 3D digital modeling and chemical imaging to study and map materials of interest, and to visualize degradation phenomena in cultural heritage through multivariate analysis and hyperspectral spectroscopy.

Her background is deeply interdisciplinary, combining chemistry, heritage conservation, and data analysis through spectroscopic and hyperspectral techniques.