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Ana Claro. Completed the Doutoramento in Conservation and Restoration in 2009/03/09 and her Degree in Conservation and Restoration in 2004/06 both by Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. Is Researcher at CHAM-Centre for Humanities, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Associate Editor and Co-Director of the journal Conservar Património. Published 15 articles in journals. Has 3 sections of books and 1 book. Has 1 patent registered. Organized 14 events. Participated in 2 events. Co-supervised 1 PhD thesis in History and she is currently co-supervising 1 PhD thesis in Chemistry . Supervised 1 MSc dissertation. Supervised 1 work of course completion of Degree. Has received 1 honor. Participates and/or participated as PhD Student Fellow in 1 project, Pos-doctoral Fellow in 1 project, Principal investigator in 2 projects and Researcher in 5 projects. Works in the area of Humanities with emphasis on Arts with emphasis on Art history. In their professional activities interacted with 70 collaborators co-authorship of scientific papers. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: material analysis; ilumminated manuscripts; binders; pigments; colour; in situ dye analysis; textiles; dressing; tradition; cultural heritage; wool; linen; cotton; silk; dyes; plants; azores; techniques; gall ink; treatment; corrosion; Portugal; trade; inovation; challenges; dyeing; conservation and restoration; Portuguese textiles; islamic textiles; Chinese textiles; history; influences; production techniques; analytical chemistry; nanotechnology.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Claro
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Claro, Ana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A81D-6511-5E25
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6825-8807

Email addresses

  • anaclaro@hotmail.com (Professional)
  • aclaro@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 217972151 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Avenida de Berna 26C, 1069-061, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Art history

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Italian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2009/03/09
Concluded
 Conservation and Restoration (Doutoramento)
Major in Especialidade: Teoria, História e Técnicas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"An interdisciplinary approach to the study of colour in Portuguese manuscript illuminations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2004/06
Concluded
 Conservation and Restoration (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Caracterização dos materiais e estudo de conservação de um manuscrito iluminado, Apocalipse do Lorvão (1189)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16/20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2011/04/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2019/04/01 - 2021/12/31 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2004/10 - 2009/04 Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal
2004/10 - 2009/04 Researcher (Research) Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2011/09/01 - 2012/06/01 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Fundação Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva, Portugal
2005/04/01 - 2009/03/31 Trainee Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2004/03/01 - 2004/07/31 Tutor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09/01 - Current Co-Director of the journal Conservar Património Associação Profissional de Conservadores-restauradores de Portugal, Portugal
2018/12 - Current Associate Editor of the journal Conservar Património Associação Profissional de Conservadores-restauradores de Portugal, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014/02/01 - 2016/01/31 Marie Curie Fellow Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
2011/04/01 - 2014/01/31 Post-Doc FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal
2009/04/01 - 2010/05/31 Invited researcher Getty Conservation Institute, United States
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2011/04 - 2014/02 IMPERIAL COLOURS: The impact of the Portuguese Expansion on Chinese silk production (16th to 17th centuries)
SFRH/BPD/72302/2010
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Smithsonian Institution, United States
FCT- Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia
2008 - 2008/03 An interdisciplinary approach to the study of colour in Portuguese manuscript illuminations
SFRH/BD/36130/2007
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
 FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/02/15 - Current Europe Through Textiles: Network for an integrated and interdisciplinary Humanities
CA19131
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal
 European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Ongoing
2018/10 - 2021/09 IRONIC - Iron Gall Ink Challenges - History and Conservation of a disapearing Cultural Heritage
PTDC/ART-HIS/32327/2017
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/06/01 - 2019/05/31 RESISTANCE - Rebellion and Resistance in the Iberian Empires, 16th-19th centuries
778076-H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017
Researcher
EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Ongoing
2017/11/01 - 2018/10/31 O Livro das Fortalezas (c.1509), roteiro de paisagens culturais
211364
Researcher
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Ongoing
2014/02 - 2016/01 NANOART: Nano Art Research Tool
331460
Principal investigator
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
 European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development People
Concluded
2010/02 - 2013/08 Unveiling the secrets of Molecules with Colour and History: from Ancient to Modern times. A (Photo)chemical Approach.
Provided by PTCRIS: 99388
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2007/06 - 2010/03 The identity of Portuguese medieval manuscript illumination in the European context
Provided by PTCRIS: 65445
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2005/02 - 2008/04 The Molecules of Colour in Art: a Photochemical Study
Provided by PTCRIS: 55672
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Claro, Ana; Ferreira, Teresa; Nunes, Margarida; Miranda, Tiago; Olival, Fernanda; Carolino, Luís Miguel; MANGUCCI, António Celso; et al. Orthographia, Arithmetica e Sciencias: três tratados do P.e António Pessoa, S. J. (c. 1648). Lisboa, Portugal: Scribe. 2023.
    Under revision • Editor
  2. Oliveira, Jorge de. O Foral Manuelino de Marvão. Portugal: Câmara Municipal de Marvão / CHAIA. 2012.
Book chapter
  1. Claro, Ana; Nunes, Margarida; Ferreira, Teresa. "Nada há de oculto que não venha a revelar-se. O contributo do estudo material para a desconstrução do códice 99 do fundo da Manizola". In Orthographia, Arithmetica e Sciencias: três tratados do P.e António Pessoa, S. J. (c. 1648), edited by Claro, Ana; Ferreira, Teresa; Miranda, Tiago; Nunes, Margarida. Lisboa, Portugal: Scribe, 2023.
    Under revision
  2. Ferreira, Teresa; Nunes, Margarida; Miranda, Tiago. "Introdução". In Orthographia, Arithmetica e Sciencias: três tratados do P.e António Pessoa, S. J. (c. 1648), edited by Scribe. Lisboa, Portugal: Scribe, 2023.
    Accepted
  3. Claro, Ana. "Estudo material". In O Livro de Valo. Uma tradução do tratado de Giovanni Batistta Della Vale no Portugal da segunda metade do século XVI, edited by Luís Costa e Sousa; Ana Paula Avelar, 87-124. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2022.
    In press
  4. Conde, A.F.; Miguel, C.; Barrocas Dias, C.; Cid, I.; Ferreira, T.. "Estudo Material de manuscritos Iluminados. O Caso de Estudo do Códice CXXV/2-4 da BPE". In Lux Anima, Iluminuras na biblioteca de Évora, 277-296. Portugal: Althum, 2017.
    Published
  5. Claro, Ana. "Descobrir a Cruz - apresentação e análise dos resultados do seu estudo e conservação". Portugal, 2013.
  6. Dias, Cristina; Claro, Ana; Valadas, Sara; Esteves, Lilia; Mexia, Maria José; Candeias, António. "Estudo material do Foral Manuelino da Lousã". In A Lousã e os seus forais, 71-87. Lousã, Portugal: Câmara Municipal da Lousã, 2013.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Claro, Ana; Nunes, Margarida; Ferreira, Teresa. "Iron Gall ink - recipes with history". Paper presented in 1º Encontro Nacional de História da Química, 2021.
    Published
  2. Claro, Ana; Ferreira, Maria João Pacheco. "The Castelo Branco embroidery: a palette to decipher". Paper presented in Mesa Redonda Digital – Workshop EuroWeb – Portugal, 2021.
    Published
  3. Claro, Ana; Dias, Cristina Barrocas; Monteiro, Paula; Serro, Madalena; Manhita, Ana; Candeias, António. "The burial garments of the 14th - century Portuguese Archbishop Gonçalo Pereira (1348)". Paper presented in 39th Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology, Sibiu, 2020.
    Published
  4. Claro, Ana; Nunes, Margarida; Ferreira, Teresa. "O que esconde a tinta ferrogálica usada em manuscritos portugueses dos séculos XVI e XVII?". Paper presented in III Congresso Luso-Extremadurense de Ciências e Tecnologia, Évora, 2019.
    Published
  5. Claro, Ana; Ferreira, Maria João Pacheco. Corresponding author: Ferreira, Maria João Pacheco. "The impact of dye analysis in Chinese textiles production history". Paper presented in Congress CIETA - Dyestuffs and Colours in Textiles - Materiality and Significance, Krefeld, 2019.
    Published
  6. Claro, Ana; Santos, Ana Raquel Martins; Ferreira, Maria João Pacheco; Hallett, Jessica; Serrano, Ana Filipa. Corresponding author: Santos, Ana Raquel Martins. "Textiles, trade and taste – Portugal and the world: what happened after 8 years". Paper presented in 37th Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology, Almada, 2018.
    Published
  7. Claro, Ana; Ferreira, Maria João Pacheco; Hallett, Jessica; Cristóvão, Inês; Folic, Marta. "Textiles, trade and taste". Paper presented in 16th Meeting of Textile Society of America, Vancouver, 2018.
    Published
  8. Claro, Ana; Moros, Maria; Martínez de la Fuente, Jesús. Corresponding author: Moros, Maria. "Ab orientation onto AuNPs: towards improved sensing performance". Paper presented in EOS SIOF Capri meetings, Capri, 2015.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Claro, Ana; Margarida Nunes. "Areia de escrever or arena scriptoria in the materiality of writing: the ink drying processes and its implications". Paper presented in III Congresso Internacional de Paleografia e Diplomática, Évora, 2023.
    Submitted
  2. Claro, Ana; Pires, Ana; Ferreira, Maria João Pacheco; Monteiro, Paula; Fonseca,Guida. Corresponding author: Claro, Ana. "TTT & Castelo Branco embroidery project". Paper presented in PONTO – Textile Arts in Perspective, Arraiolos, 2021.
    Published
  3. Claro, Ana; Ferreira, Maria João. "Entre Portugal, a Índia e a China - Encontros com a história, arte e ciência". Paper presented in Os Têxteis indianos e o império português. Arte e contextos Conferência de Homenagem a Lotika Varadarajan, Lisboa, 2018.
    Under revision
  4. Monteiro, Paula; Serro, Madalena; Claro, Ana; Dias, Cristina; Candeias, António. "Fragmentos da indumentária fúnebre do Arcebispo D. Gonçalo Pereira: entre lampassos, bordados e passamanaria". Paper presented in Actas IV Congress of Portuguese Art History, Lisboa, 2014.
    Published
  5. Claro, Ana. "Safflower (Cartamus tinctorius L.) in China. A confrontation of ancient texts with modern laboratory practice on its preparation and use as a dye, a pigment and cosmetic rouge". Paper presented in 16th Triennial Meeting ICOM-CC, Lisboa, 2011.
    Published
  6. Wouters, Jan; Grzywacz, Cecily M.; Claro, Ana. "Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.). History of use in China; ancient and present-day preparation technologies; a new identification strategy". Paper presented in 29th Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology, Lisboa, 2010.
    Submitted
  7. Claro, Ana. "Experimental design: collecting data". Paper presented in Medieval colours: between beauty and meaning, Lisboa, 2009.
    Submitted
  8. Silva, Leonel; Claro, Ana; Melo, Maria João; Cabrita, Eurico; Mafra, Luís. "Using solid and liquid state NMR techniques to unveil the secrets of alizarin lakes". Paper presented in 27th Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology, Istanbul, 2008.
    Submitted
  9. Freitas, Ana; Claro, Ana; Melo, Maria João; Casanova, Conceição; Moura, Laura; Claro, Ana. "Study of a Portuguese 18th century manuscript: “Relaçam das madeiras descriptas, que se comprehendem no termo da villa de Caxoeira”". Paper presented in Art Technological Source Research 3rd International Symposium, Glasgow, 2008.
    Published
  10. Miguel, Catarina; Claro, Ana; Melo, Maria João; Claro, Ana. "Copper pigments in medieval times: Green, blue, greenish blue or bluish green?". Paper presented in Art Technological Source Research 3rd International Symposium, Glasgow, 2008.
    Published
  11. Claro, Ana. "Microspectrofluorimetry: a new technique to unveil red paints". Paper presented in Conservation Science 2007, Milan, 2007.
    Published
  12. Claro, Ana. "The colour of medieval Portuguese illumination". Paper presented in 14th Triennial Meeting ICOM-CC, Hague, 2005.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Claro, Ana; Figueiredo, Elin; Ferreira, Tiago Miguel; Sequeira, Sílvia O.. Corresponding author: Figueiredo, Elin. "Migração da revista Conservar Património para o SARC Light no âmbito da iniciativa Pub In (Portugal): desafios e soluções". Paper presented in 12ª conferência luso-brasileira CONFOA, 2021.
  2. Claro, Ana; Corregidor, V.; Nunes, Margarida; Alves, Luís C.; Ferreira, Teresa. Corresponding author: Corregidor, V.. "Codex 99 from Manizola collection: IBA characterization". Paper presented in 17th International Conference on Particle Induce X-ray Emission & International Conference on Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry, 2021.
  3. Claro, Ana; Nunes, Margarida; Wanzeller, Gláucia; Sequeira, Ofélia; Olival, Fernanda; Moita, Patrícia; Ferreira, Teresa. "An Analytical Approach to Investigate Blotting Sands from Portuguese Documents". Paper presented in 7PYCheM – 7th Young Portuguese Chemists Meeting, 2021.
  4. Nunes, Margarida; Corregidor, V.; Alves, Luís; Olival, Fernanda (E113-8E9A-C364); Vilar, Hermínia Vasconcelos; Sequeira, O; Manhita, Ana; Claro, Ana; Ferreira, Teresa. "Analytical investigation on the writing ink of Codex 99 from Manizola collection". Paper presented in Analitica 2020 – Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, 2020.
  5. Claro, Ana; Ferreira, Teresa; Mitchell, Scott. "IronIC - Iron Gall Ink Challenges". Paper presented in Materiais 2019, X International Symposium on Materials, 2019.
  6. Claro, Ana. "IRONIC - Iron Gall Ink Challenges: History and Conservation of a disappearing Cultural Heritage". Paper presented in World meeting, Heritage Sciences and Technologies, 2019.
  7. Claro, Ana. "Enlightening approaches to Indo-Persian carpets". Paper presented in AIC 43rd Annual Conference, 2015.
  8. Claro, Ana. "NanoART - Unveiling materials in art". Paper presented in E-MRS 2015 Spring Meeting, 2015.
  9. Claro, Ana. "NanoArt: discovering the invisible materials in art". Paper presented in 11th International Conference on Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies (NN14), 2014.
  10. Barrocas Dias, C.; Claro, Ana; Valadas, Sara; Esteves, Lília; Mexia, Maria José; Oliveira, Jorge; Ferreira, Teresa; Candeias, António. "Material analysis of the Manueline Foral Charters of Lousã and Marvão". Paper presented in RAA 2013 – 7th International Congress in the Application of Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology, 2013.
  11. Barrocas Dias, C.; Ferreira, Teresa; Claro, Ana; Miguel, Catarina; Valadas, Sara; Cid, Isabel; Calixto, José; Conde, Antónia Fialho. "Illuminated manuscripts in Évora: form, aesthetics and technic – a case study". Paper presented in InArt2013 - 1st International Conference on Innovation in Art Research and Technology, 2013.
  12. Claro, Ana. "Unraveling the richness of medieval textiles - a multidisciplinar approach". Paper presented in 2nd International Workshop, 2012.
  13. Claro, Ana. "Art matters - photophysics and photochemistry of red anthraquinones used in works of art". Paper presented in XXIII IUPAC Symposium in Photochemistry, 2010.
  14. Claro, Ana. "A study on red lead blackening of the medieval manuscript Lorvão Apocalypse (1189 A.D.)". Paper presented in 5th International Congress on the Application of Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology, 2009.
  15. Claro, Ana. "The Book of Birds: an inner look". Paper presented in TECHNART 2007 (Non-destructive and Microanalytical Techniques in Art and Cultural Heritage Research), 2007.
Journal article
  1. Nunes, M.; Wanzeller Martins, G.; Sarraguça, J.; Olival, F.; Moita, P.; Mitchell, Scott G.; Claro, A.; Ferreira, T.. "Multi-analytical characterisation of blotting sands on documents from religious orders in Portugal (16th-19th centuries)". Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 303 (2023): 123204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2023.123204.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.saa.2023.123204
  2. Nunes, Margarida; Olival, Fernanda; Mitchell, Scott G.; Claro, Ana; Ferreira, Teresa. Corresponding author: Ferreira, Teresa. "A holistic approach to understanding the iron-gall inks in the historical documents of the Portuguese Inquisition (1570-1790)". Microchemical Journal 165 (2023): 103396. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micron.2022.103396.
    10.1016/j.micron.2022.103396
  3. Claro, Ana; Olival, Fernanda; Nunes, Margarida; Martins, Glaucia Wanzeller; Jorge Sarraguça; Moita, Patrícia; Mitchell, Scott; Ferreira, Teresa. Corresponding author: Ferreira, Teresa. "Literas arena conspergere - Morphological and chemical aspects of blotting sands from the Portuguese Inquisition documents". Journal of Cultural Heritage (2023):
    Submitted
  4. Figueiredo, Elin; Ferreira, Tiago Miguel; Miller, Ana Zélia; O. Sequeira, Sílvia; Claro, Ana. "Conservar Património, a consolidation process". Conservar Património (2021): 8-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.14568/cp37fm2.
    Open access • 10.14568/cp37fm2
  5. Ferreira, Tiago Miguel; O. Sequeira, Sílvia; Claro, Ana; Zélia Miller, Ana; Figueiredo, Elin. "Editorial 2020: heritage, the pandemic and the journal". Conservar Património 36 (2021): 8-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.14568/cp36fm2.
    Open access • Published • 10.14568/cp36fm2
  6. Figueiredo, Elin; Ferreira, Tiago Miguel; Claro, Ana; Miller, Ana Zélia; Sequeira, Sílvia O.. "Editorial: Recent developments with a view to the future". Conservar Património 35 (2020): 8-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.14568/cp35fm2.
    Open access • 10.14568/cp35fm2
  7. Claro, Ana; Santos, Ana Raquel Martins; Hallett, Jessica; McCarthy, Blythe. "Color Power: Contributions of Science and Technology to the Study of sixteenth and seventh-century ‘Vine-scroll’ carpets". Textile Museum Journal (2020): https://museum.gwu.edu/tmjournal.
    Under revision • DOI : 10.7560/TMJ4708
  8. Claro, Ana; Ferreira, Maria João Pacheco. "Chinese textiles for the Portuguese market: rethinking their history through dye analysis". Textile Museum Journal (2020): https://museum.gwu.edu/tmjournal.
    Published • DOI: 10.7560/TMJ4707
  9. Claro, Ana; Santos, Ana Raquel Martins; Serrano, Ana Filipa; Ferreira, Maria João Pacheco; Hallett, Jessica. "Textiles, Trade and Taste – Portugal and the World (TTT): a project on the global circulation of textiles and dyes". Textile Museum Journal (2020): https://museum.gwu.edu/tmjournal.
    Under revision • DOI: 10.7560/TMJ4710
  10. Figueiredo, Elin; Claro, Ana; Miller, Ana Zélia; Sequeira, Sílvia O.; Ferreira, Tiago Miguel. "Editorial". Conservar Património 32 (2019): 1-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.14568/cp32fm2.
    10.14568/cp32fm2
  11. Splitstoser, Jeffrey C.; Dillehay, Tom D.; Wouters, Jan; Claro, Ana. "Early pre-Hispanic use of indigo blue in Peru". Science Advances 2 9 (2016): e1501623. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501623.
    10.1126/sciadv.1501623
  12. Claro, Ana. "Nanotech tools offer affordable, accurate historical paint analysis". Research eu Results Magazine (2016):
  13. Claro, Ana. "Estudo material do Foral Manuelino de Marvão". Ibn Maruán (2012):
  14. Claro, Ana. "The colour of medieval Portuguese illumination: an interdisciplinary approach". Revista de História de Arte Série W 1 (2011): 152-173. https://institutodehistoriadaarte.wordpress.com/publications/rhaw/.
    Open access • Published
  15. Wouters, J.; Grzywacz, C.M.; Claro, A.; Wouters, Jan; Grzywacz, Cecily M.; Claro, Ana. "A comparative investigation of hydrolysis methods to analyze natural organic dyes by HPLC-PDA : Nine methods, twelve biological sources, ten dye classes, dyed yarns, pigments and paints". Studies in Conservation 56 3 (2011): 231-249. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-83455172269&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1179/204705811X13110713013353
  16. Wouters, Jan; Grzywacz, Cecily M.; Claro, Ana. "Markers for Identification of Faded Safflower (Carthamus tinctoriusL.) Colorants by HPLC-PDA-MS - Ancient Fibres, Pigments, Paints and Cosmetics Derived from Antique Recipes". Studies in Conservation 55 3 (2010): 186-203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/sic.2010.55.3.186.
    10.1179/sic.2010.55.3.186
  17. Melo, Maria J.; Claro, Ana. "Bright Light: Microspectrofluorimetry for the Characterization of Lake Pigments and Dyes in Works of Art". Accounts of Chemical Research 43 6 (2010): 857-866. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ar9001894.
    10.1021/ar9001894
  18. Claro, Ana; Melo, Maria J.; Seixas de Melo, J.Sérgio; van den Berg, Klaas Jan; Burnstock, Aviva; Montague, Meredith; Newman, Richard. "Identification of red colorants in van Gogh paintings and ancient Andean textiles by microspectrofluorimetry". Journal of Cultural Heritage 11 1 (2010): 27-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2009.03.006.
    10.1016/j.culher.2009.03.006
  19. Miguel, Catarina; Claro, Ana; Gonçalves, António Pereira; Muralha, Vânia S. F.; Melo, Maria João. "A study on red lead degradation in a medieval manuscript Lorvão Apocalypse (1189)". Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 40 12 (2009): 1966-1973. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jrs.2350.
    10.1002/jrs.2350
  20. Claro, Ana; Melo, Maria J.; Schäfer, Stephan; de Melo, J. Sérgio Seixas; Pina, Fernando; van den Berg, Klaas Jan; Burnstock, Aviva. "The use of microspectrofluorimetry for the characterization of lake pigments". Talanta 74 4 (2008): 922-929. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2007.07.036.
    10.1016/j.talanta.2007.07.036
  21. Miranda, Adelaide; Lemos, Ana; Claro, Ana; Miguel, Catarina; Melo, Maria João. "A Iluminura Portuguesa, uma abordagem interdisciplinar". Revista de História de Arte - FCSH 5 (2008): 221-238. https://run.unl.pt/handle/10362/13240.
    Open access • Published
  22. Moura, Laura; Melo, Maria João; Casanova, Conceição; Claro, Ana. "A study on Portuguese manuscript illumination: The Charter of Vila Flor (Flower town), 1512". Journal of Cultural Heritage 8 3 (2007): 299-306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2007.02.003.
    10.1016/j.culher.2007.02.003
Manual
  1. Claro, Ana. À descoberta da iluminura medieval com o Apocalipse do Lorvão e o Livro das Aves. 2007.
    Published
Newsletter article
  1. Miranda, Adelaide; Claro, Ana; Lemos, Ana; Miguel, Catarina; Melo, Maria João. "Apocalipse do Lorvão, um tesouro para descobrir ou Apocalipse do Lorvão, a cor da Luz", Boletim DGARQ, 2007
  2. Claro, Ana. "As moléculas da cor na Arte e na Natureza", Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, 2006, https://www.spq.pt/magazines/BSPQuimica/626.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Claro, Ana Luisa do Vale Fonseca. "An interdisciplinary approach to the study of colour in portuguese manuscript illuminations". PhD, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/11506.
Website
  1. Claro, Ana; Nunes, Margarida; Margarida Nunes. IRONIC. 2020. http://ironic.fcsh.unl.pt/.
  2. Claro, Ana. Textiles, Trade & Taste. 2017. http://www.textiles-trade-taste.net/.

Intellectual property

Patent
  1. Claro, Ana; Parracino, Mariantonietta; Abad Pastor, José María; Puertas Lorente, Sara; Grazu Bonavia, Valeria; Martínez de la Fuente, Jesús. 2018. "Microfluidics for analyte detection based on the light to heat conversion properties of metal nanoparticles". United States.
    Pending

Other

Other output
  1. Colorant materials used in Castelo Branco embroideries. The purpose of this project is to establish the characteristic chromatic palette of the Embroidery from Castelo Branco (Portugal) in the Product Specifications, a document in which all the characteristics that define the embroidery are described. In the course of this process, questions related to the use of color arose since the original palette of bedspreads was not considered.. 2020. Claro, Ana; Ferreira, Maria João Pacheco; Monteiro, Paula; Pires, Ana; Fonseca, Guida.
  2. Novos desafios para a Conservar Património. UID/HIS/04666/2019 PTDC/ART-HIS/32327/2017. 2019. Figueiredo, Elin; Claro, Ana; Miller, Ana Zelia; Sequeira, Silvia O.; Ferreira, Tiago Miguel; CENIMAT-i3N - Centro de Investigação de Materiais (Lab. Associado I3N); DCM - Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais; et al. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/92278.
    https://doi.org/10.14568/cp32fm2
  3. A Cor na Iluminura Portuguesa uma abordagem interdisciplinar. A cor na iluminura medieval portuguesa: uma abordagem interdisciplinar, foi o nome dado ao projecto que começou pelo estudo de dois manuscritos datados, do fundo do Mosteiro de São Mamede do Lorvão, os designados, Livro das Aves e o Apocalipse do Lorvão: apesar da diversidade do fundo a identificação destes dois manuscritos com cólofons, em que surge referência à datação e ao local de produção, to. 2008. Miranda, Adelaide; Lemos, Ana; Claro, Ana; Miguel, Catarina; Melo, Maria João. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/13240.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/09/17 Iron Gall ink - recipes with history 1º Encontro Nacional de História da Química
2021/09/17 The Castelo Branco embroidery: a palette to decipher Fiar, Tecer, Tingir e Coser. Perspectivas interdisciplinares sobre os têxteis históricos em Portugal: EuroWeb Portugal
(Portugal)
2021/07/21 Conservation practices of document heritage V CHAM International Conference: Frontiers of Humanity and Beyond: towards new critical understandings of Borders
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Portugal)
2021/06/12 TTT & Castelo Branco embroidery project Ponto - Textile Art in Perspective
Arraiolos Municipality (Arraiolos, Portugal)
2021/03/10 Fauna e flora - materiais com arte Ciclo de Visitas
Nacional Museum of Ancient Art (Lisboa, Portugal)
2020/10/15 The burial garments of the 14th - century Portuguese Archbishop Gonçalo Pereira (¿1348) 39th Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology
ASTRA Museum (Sibiu, Romania)
2020/02/17 Ironic - Iron Gall Ink Challenges - History and Conservation of a disappearing Cultural Heritage Conferencias en el ICMA
Universidad de Zaragoza (Zaragoza, Spain)
2019/11/25 O que esconde a tinta ferrogálica usada em manuscritos portugueses dos séculos XVI e XVII? III Congresso Luso-Extremadurense de Ciências e Tecnologia
(Èvora, Portugal)
2019/10/25 The impact of dye analysis in Chinese textiles production history 28th Congress CIETA - Dyestuffs and Colours in Textiles – Materiality and Significance
CIETA (Krefeld, Germany)
2019/02/07 Corantes chineses em têxteis de museus Portugueses Conferências Instituto Confúcio
Instituto Confúcio - Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2018/10/26 Textiles, trade and taste – Portugal and the world: what happened after 8 years 37th Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology
Universidade Nova de Lisboa - FCT (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/10/11 Entre Portugal, a Índia e a China – Encontros com a história, arte e ciência Atas da 13ª Conferência da Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/04/19 Têxteis Asiáticos em Museus Portugueses – Que corantes? Novos (dessa)fios - I Ciclo de Conferências Textiles, Trade and Taste
Museu FRESS (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019/10/01 - Current Iron gall ink challenges. Methodologies for identification, characterisation and preservation of written cultural heritage
Co-supervisor
 Química (PhD)
Universidade de Évora Departamento de Química, Portugal
2012/05/01 - 2017/06/28 New carpets for new markets: production and consumption of indo-persian carpets in 16th and 17th centuries
Co-supervisor
 História (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2015/09/07 - 2016/07/05 NanoinArt - Nanotechnology applied in Cultural Heritage
Supervisor
 Quimica Orgánica (Master)
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
2014/06/22 - 2015/04/01 Uso de la nanotecnología para descubrir materiales de Patrimonio Cultural
Supervisor
 Biotecnologia (Degree)
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021/05/27 - Current Conversas Virtuais, a get together online to talk, discusse and learn about Portuguese textiles Cultural Heritage (2021/05/27 - 2021/05/27)
Round table (Member of the Organising Committee)
 CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2023/07/01 - 2023/11/09 Co-organization with MNAA of Os têxteis em Portugal – conferência em homenagem a Teresa Alarcão (2023/11/09 - 2023/11/09)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Portugal
2023/09/19 - 2023/11/01 Colaboration with FCG on the exhibition: Power of the Word V – The Emperor’s Gift: Circles of Knowledge, curated by Juan Acevedo and Inês Bénard da Costa (2023/11/01 - 2024/10/01)
Exhibition (Other)
 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2023/02/13 - 2023/07/13 organization of one of the panels of the "VI CHAM International Conference: Heritage for a common future / Futures for a common heritage", named Textiles: a cultural heritage to preserve (2023/07/12 - 2023/07/15)
Conference (Other)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2020/02/04 - 2020/02/04 Visit: a guided tour to the exhibition: Timor: Totems e Traços (2020/02/04 - 2020/02/04)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Fundação Museu do Oriente, Portugal
2019/08/01 - 2019/10/19 Workshop 'Tinturaria Natural', In this workshop we shown some dyeing plants and techniques about the dyeing process. Discovering the fascination of taking from the plants one of their potentialities, almost always hidden, as a well kept secret and offering it to the textile fibres - the eternal challenge of dyeing. (2019/10/19)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Museu Francisco Lacerda, Portugal
2019/10/15 - 2019/10/15 Visit: the intervention of conservation and restoration of the Manto da Rainha D. Amélia, at Museu Nacional dos Coches. (2019/10/15 - 2019/10/15)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Museu Nacional dos Coches, Portugal
2019/09/04 - 2019/10/10 Workshop 'Iron gall ink treatment', we presented to conservation technicians, one of the treatmenst on the corrosion of iron gall ink of manuscripts, using calcium phitate treatment. (2019/10/10)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Laboratório José Figueiredo, Portugal
2019/09/18 - 2019/09/18 Visit: guided tour to the Islamic textiles collection of the exhibition - The Taste for Islamic Art-, guided by the curator Jessica Hallett. (2019/09/18 - 2019/09/18)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2019/05/01 - 2019/09/13 Co-organization (through Textiles , Trade & Taste: Portugal in the World group) with the Dress in Early Modern Network of the international meeting: Dress under the Microscope: Contributions of Science and Technology to the Study of Early Modern Dress (2019/09/12 - 2019/09/13)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2019/01/01 - 2019/09/10 Cicle of Debates (Des)Materializando (2019), dedicated to materials and problems of textil production in the past and in the present: 3) 'Tecelagem de Mértola - Ecos no Passado do Futuro', organization in colaboration with CHAM,FCSH/Nova-UAç and Câmara Municipal de Mértola, Mértola, 8th May 2019. 4) 'O LInho de Viseu - Matéria, Produção e Tradições', organization in colaboration with CHAM,FCSH/Nova-UAç and Museu Etnográfico -Casa de Lavoura e Oficina do Linho, Viseu, 10th September 2019. (2019/05/08 - 2019/09/10)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2019/03/12 - 2019/03/12 Visit: guided tour to the textiles collection of Casa Museu Medeiros e Almeida by the curators Cristina Carvalho, Maria Mayer and Samantha Coleman. (2019/03/12 - 2019/03/12)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Casa Museu Medeiros e Almeida, Portugal
2018/11/21 - 2018/11/21 Visit: a guided tour to Nova Galeria dos Têxteis do Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga by the textiles curator Ana Kol (2018/11/21 - 2018/11/21)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Portugal

CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2018/04/18 - 2018/05/20 Cicle of Debates (Des)Materializando (2018), dedicated to materials and problems of textil production in the past and in the present: 1) A Seda e as Colchas de Castelo Branco, organization in colaboration with CHAM, FCSH/Nova-UAç and Câmara Municipal de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco: Museu Tavares Proença Júnior, 18th April 2018; 2) À conversa sobre a Chita de Alcobaça, organization in colaboration with CHAM,FCSH/Nova-UAç e a Câmara Municipal de Alcobaça, Alcobaça: Biblioteca Municipal de Alcobaça, 20th May 2018. (2018/04/18 - 2018/05/20)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Câmara Municipal de Castelo Branco, Portugal

Câmara Municipal de Alcobaça, Portugal
2018/03/21 - 2018/03/21 Organization in colaboration with Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, of a guided tour to the exhibition As Flores do Imperador. Do bolbo ao tapete by the curators Teresa Nobre de Carvalho and Clara Serra. (2018/03/21 - 2018/03/21)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2015/09/25 - 2015/09/25 Workshop "Materiales con Arte" in Researchers Night, experiments to do with kids and teenagers. (2015/09/25 - 2015/09/25)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
2013/09/20 - 2013/09/20 Workshop "Monges, copistas e iluminadores: como colorir uma iluminura", Residência Cisterciense em S. Bento de Cástris-o silêncio (2013/09/20 - 2013/09/20)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
2008/07/07 - 2008/07/07 Workshop for the participants of the congress: "To paint in the Medieval Scriptorium- the Book of Birds from Lorvão monastery", International Medieval Congress (2008/07/07)
Workshop
 University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/09/21 - Current NEI2021 - European Researchers Night
Workshop
 Património Histórico escrito sob ação do clima
2021/05/27 - 2021/05/27 Conversas Virtuais
Round table
 Pontos com cor - Colchas de Castelo Branco
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2021/02/24 - 2021/02/24 In this interview, The Textile Museum Journal guest editor Mary Dusenbury and contributing authors Raquel Santos, Jessica Hallett, Blythe McCarthy, Maria João Ferreira and Ana Claro will discuss the issues surrounding textiles made or found in Portugal and dating from the early modern period. They will focus on their interdisciplinary research on textiles found in Portuguese collections, published in the articles on Textiles Museum Journal issue 47.
Meeting
 Authors who contributed to volume 47 of The Textile Museum Journal
The George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, United States
2020/11/27 - 2020/11/27 NEI2020 - European Researchers' Night 2020 Quizz and video
Meeting
 Noite Europeia dos Investigadores / European Researchers' Night 2020
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Museu Nacional de História Natural, Portugal
2019/06/19 - 2019/06/21 All in one? Identity, Tradition and Inovation
Round table
 2nd Internacional Textile Design Conference, D_tex
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2019/06/20 - 2019/06/20 Roundtable: All in one? Identity, Tradition and Inovation
Congress
 2nd Internacional Textile Design Conference, D_tex
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2018/09/19 - 2018/09/23 Round table with the presentation of a movie from "Textiles, Trade and Taste" group.
Conference
 16th Meeting of Textile Society of America
Textile Society of America, Inc., United States

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/11/30 A Handful of Yellows - Unravelling 18th Century Recipes From French Master Dyers Antoine Janot And Paul Gout
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Mara Espírito Santo (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2017/07/01 The Red Road of the Iberian Expansion: Cochineal and the Global Dye Trade
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ana Filipa Albano Serrano (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2023/07/06 - 2033/07/08 Colóquio Internacional - Espaço Ultramarino Ibérico (1450-1900) – Arte, história e património São Jorge, Açores
2023/09/25 - 2023/09/28 II Atlantic Conference: History, Culture and Heritage Universidade dos Açores

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/07/19 - 2021/07/28 UEvora Junior Summer School: Tinta ferrogálica - da produção ao laboratório (Ensino secundário)
2020/07/15 - 2020/07/29 Summer School: Das Viagens: Contextos e Pretextos (Pós-Graduação) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2018/05/19 - 2018/05/19 Publicamente Debate (Des)Materializando: À conversa com a chita de Alcobaça
2015/09/25 - 2015/09/25 Julia en la onda La noche de los investigadores

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2018/11/22 - Current Conservar Património (2182-9942) Associacao Profissional de Conservadores-Restauradores de Portugal

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2019/06/05 - 2019/06/30 Jury of the call for the allocation of a research scholarship in the scope of the project I&D DRESS_DesenhaR a moda das fontes quinhentistaS, coordenated by Carla Alferes Pinto and financed by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/02/23 - Current Collecting textile samples to do a characterization study on Castelo Branco embroidery, at Lisboa. Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Portugal
2019/03/10 - 2019/03/10 Collecting textile samples to do a characterization study on Castelo Branco embroidery, at Castelo Branco. CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Museu Francisco Tavares Proença Júnior, Portugal
2019/03/09 - 2019/03/09 Collecting textile samples to do a characterization study on Castelo Branco embroidery, at Viseu. CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Casa Museu Almeida Moreira, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2020 Best poster prize

Other distinction

2004 Best student of the graduation course 1999-2004
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal