
Marie RADEPONT

36 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
75005 Paris
Co-responsible for X-ray fluorescence spectrometers (mobile instrument and imaging spectrometer)
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PRESENTATION
As a materials chemist and physicist, Marie Radepont specialization is the study of historical artefacts in an artistic or archaeological context.
Marie Radepont entered the cultural heritage research field during a master 2 internship on mummies’ hairs at the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF), followed by a PhD on the alterations of cinnabar - a red pigment also called vermilion - between the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and the University Pierre et Marie Curie (France). She performed post-doctorates on the study of the provenance and the degradation of silver leaves in gilt leather decorations at the Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation (CRC), and then worked on the authentication of paintings by hyperspectral imaging spectroscopy at the Laboratoire d’Archéologie Moléculaire et Structurale (LAMS).
Since January 1st 2019, Marie is a CNRS research engineer at the CRC and works especially on X-ray fluorescence spectrometers, including one imaging spectrometer. Her specialization in the use of state-of-the-art techniques dedicated to analytical chemistry, and in particular imaging techniques, allows her to identify and study materials used by craftsperson and artists from Antiquity to modern ages.
Marie Radepont is involved in multiple research projects on the analysis of cultural heritage materials, especially from her implication in the “Tracings” group of the CRCC team.
She is particularly interested in material characterization, in the understanding of alteration processes of these materials, and in the development of analytical methodologies adapted to constraints due to the objects analyzed, especially in the chemical imaging field.
Objects studied during her main research projects include graphic documents, musical instruments, gilt leathers.