Advisory Committee

Curtis Frank explores the molecular structure of high polymers and small amphiphilic molecules capable of self-organization through photostationary and transient fluorescence, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, surface plasmon spectroscopy, and optical and atomic force microscopy. He studies polymers, fatty acids, surface coupling agents, dendrimers and liquid crystals at the air/water interface and in constrained geometries on solid substrates; organic/inorganic nanocomposites; and applications of polymers in microelectronics. He is Sr. Professor in Engineering and Professor, by court, of Materials Science and Engineering and of Chemistry at Stanford University.

Jorge García Gómez-Tejedor graduated from the School of Restoration and Conservation of Madrid (1987). Since 2013 he has been the Head of the Department of Conservation and Restoration of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and co-director of the Master in Conservation and Restoration of Contemporary Art, taught in the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia National Museum in collaboration with the Complutense University of Madrid.
He has been a painting restorer of contemporary works of art at the National Art Museum Reina Sofia (1992-2003). He worked for the Spanish Historical Heritage Institute - current Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain (1990-1991). He participated to the restoration of Dalí legacy and prepared the transfer of funds from the former Museum of Contemporary Art to its new headquarters at the National Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Project management and coordination of action for murals and easel paintings in the Royal Palace of La Almudaina of Palma de Mallorca (National Heritage) paintings. He has worked Restoration of easel painting for National Heritage.

Diana Magaloni is former director of Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City. Ph.D. in Art History at Yale University (2004), MA in Art History at UNAM-Mexico (1996), and Bachelor in Art Conservation at Escuela Nacional de Restauración, Conservación y Museografía, México City. Tenured Researcher and Professor (Investigador Titular A) at the Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas (IIE) at UNAM and Associate Professor in the Graduate program in Art History, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM. Authors of about forty papers on conservation of Mexican cultural heritage.

Alberto Arturo De Tagle studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany, where he earned a master's degree in analytical chemistry. He returned to Cuba in 1972 and served for the next ten years in Havana as head of inorganic instrumental analysis at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNIC). He earned a Ph.D. in analytical atomic spectroscopy at the TH Merseburg, Germany in 1980. From 1982 until 1990 he directed scientific research in cultural heritage studies and preservation at the National Centre for Conservation, Restoration, and Museology (CENCREM), Havana, Cuba. He lectured as associate professor on colonial architectural decorative paintings at the University of Havana. Since 1991 he has been a visiting Lecturer and since 2007 he has led the course in advanced architecture conservation at the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. In 1992 he was appointed head of the analytical laboratories at the Winterthur Museum and Gardens in Delaware and adjunct associate professor in the Art Conservation Program at the University of Delaware. From 1995 until 2001 he was Director of the Scientific Program and then Chief Scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, USA.  Since 2002 Alberto has worked at the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Alberto is member of ICCROM's General Council. Alberto lectures internationally and participates in scientific advisory committees at several conservation research institutions in France, Italy and Germany.