Research group
Cultural Heritage and Responsive Materials
Position
Researcher
Paula Nabais is a Junior CEEC Researcher at the Department of Conservation and Restoration and LAQV-Requimte Research Unit, from the NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon. Her Ph.D. project was granted the award “Estimulo à Investigação” for the Chemistry Area by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. It encompassed the development of innovative methodologies for the identification of organic colorants in artworks. Recently, she has been dedicated to the study of natural dyes used in artworks, in particular yellow colours. She is the PI in FCT funded project REVIVE, a member of the management committee of COST ACTION EuroWeb and the Vice-Chair of the COST Innovators Grant HERITEX-HUB.
Representative Publications
A 1000-year-old mystery solved: the first molecular structure for the medieval blue from Chrozophora tinctoria, also known as folium
Yellow Dyes of Historical Importance: A Handful of Weld Yellows from the 18th-Century Recipe Books of French Master Dyers Antoine Janot and Paul Gout
10.3390/heritage6120391
Early modern knitted caps (fifteenth to sixteenth centuries): analyzing dyes in archaeological samples using microspectrofluorimetry complemented by HPLC-MS
10.1186/s40494-023-01020-4
