(Chemical) Bonding is what makes life possible

Sara Sá graduated in 2013 at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, where she also completed her master’s degree in Conservation and Restoration (2015). Her master’s thesis focused on the analysis and treatment of a 19th century portrait in oil on canvas, and the planning of a cost-efficient microclimate frame for the exhibition of the painting. During the year of 2016, Sara Sá worked as a conservator, mainly in the conservation and restoration of paintings and polychrome sculptures. Since 2017 she is a CORES Ph.D. fellow at FCT-UNL. Her doctoral project focuses on the study of the materials and techniques of the polychromy of Portuguese medieval sculpture.