Catarina Miguel

Catarina Miguel is a Chemical Engineer with a PhD in Conservation Sciences. She is a researcher at HERCULES Laboratory, Universidade Évora, Portugal. Her research in Heritage Science focuses on analytical chemistry and the spectroscopic analysis of cultural heritage materials. For the past 20 years, she has specialised in the material study of illuminated manuscripts from the medieval to the Renaissance periods. She has led several interdisciplinary projects and national and international analytical campaigns on illuminated manuscripts, including at the Vatican Library, Troyes, the British Library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the Biblioteca Nacional de España (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4722-8067)