Maria Catrambone

Maria Catrambone

Senior Researcher

+39 3393562447
Rome
maria.catrambone@cnr.it

Professional profile

Conservation Scientist | Indoor Air Quality | XRF spectroscopist | Materials scientist

She holds a degree in Chemistry and conducts research in the field of analytical chemistry applied to the conservation science of cultural heritage.

Her work focuses mainly on the study of materials and conservation environments for cultural heritage, with particular attention to degradation processes and the development of preventive conservation strategies.

She has gained experience in the study of air quality in museum, historic, and archival environments, managing the design and implementation of monitoring campaigns aimed at identifying pollutants critical to conservation and analyzing the interactions between indoor and outdoor contaminants. She also carries out non-invasive, multi-analytical diagnostics for the characterization of cultural heritage materials, with particular reference to ceramics and the study of pigments on manuscripts and historical artifacts, participating in diagnostic campaigns carried out by the Italian node E-RIHS.it within the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS).

CNR Disciplinary Fields and Research Management Sectors

  • SH8_1 Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage
  • PE4_18 Environment chemistry
  • PE4_5 Analytical chemistry

MUR Italian Scientific-Disciplinary Sector

  • CHEM-01/B Environmental and Cultural Heritage Chemistry

Groups & Labs CNR ISPC

Heritage Conservation Lab →
Heritage Materials Science Lab →

Publications

CNR IRIS platform →
ORCID →

Highlight

Catrambone, M., Cristiani, E., Riminesi, C., Onofri, E., & Pensabene Buemi, L. (2025). Assessing the Combined Influence of Indoor Air Quality and Visitor Flow Toward Preventive Conservation at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Atmosphere, 16(7), 860. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16070860

Botteon, A., Conti, C., Colombo, C., Catrambone, M., Realini, M., Miliani, C., Sansonetti, A. (2025). Multimodal and multiscale non-invasive study of Leonardo’s mural painting in Sala delle Asse (Milan): A tool supporting cleaning evaluation. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 75, 217-225. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2025.07.017

Catrambone, M., Cappellina, M., Olivini, F., Possenti, E., Saccani, I., & Sansonetti, A. (2024). Indoor air quality in a museum storage room: conservation issues induced in plastic objects. Atmosphere, 15(12), 1409. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15121409 

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