research
The Enrico Fermi Research Center - CREF promotes original and high-impact lines of research, based on physical methods, but with a strong interdisciplinary character and in relation to the main problems of the modern knowledge society.
Complexity
Applied Physics
Fundamental Physics
Museum and History of Physics
People
third mission
The CREF was born with a dual soul: a research centre and a historical museum. Its aim is to preserve and disseminate the memory of Enrico Fermi and to promote the dissemination and communication of scientific culture.
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Research staff
Giulia Festa
- Position: First Researcher
- Physics for Cultural Heritage
I am an experimental physicist leading the “Physics for Cultural Heritage” research group at CREF. My current research activities concern the study of materials of historical-artistic interest through a combination of spectroscopy and machine learning. I have studied archaeological finds such as ceramics, metals, paper, fabrics, inks, and bone remains through chemical-physical methods. These include neutron techniques, diffraction, gamma spectroscopy and neutron activation, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence, hyperspectral and neutron and X-ray imaging. I am a reviewer for several international journals and co-editor of the monograph “Neutron Methods for Archeology and Cultural Heritage” (2017) published by Springer. I co-authored the article “From Physics to Art and Back,” Nature Reviews Physics (2021) and was featured in Elsevier’s New Virtual Special Issue on Women in Physics, 2017.
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