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Professor of History of Modern Art (Restoration degree in Mantova, Italia) and of History of Artistic Techniques and Conservation and Restoration (Restoration Institutes of the Veneto region). He has a research grant at the Ca ’Foscari University of Venice (Italia). He has participated in various seminars at the high school of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure di Firenze, as well as at the University of Lleida and the University of Valencia (Spain). As a member of the Scientific Committee of the Complesso Museale Palazzo Ducale di Mantova, he has curated various international exhibitions, among which the Ideal Cities of Gonzaga or the monographic one dedicated to Giulio Romano stand out, together with the Louvre Museum. He has worked on the study of the pharmacy legacy in Mantova, as evidenced by his latest paper “Alchimisti alla Corte dei Gonzaga e speziali mantovani in Età Moderna”, included in the book Drugs & Colors in History Revisiting historical traditions, pharmacies & workshops (M.L. Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Catarina Miguel, Claudia Pelosi, Eds.), Tirant Lo Blanch Editions, Valencia (2023, in press).

Degree in History of Art from the University of Seville, 2004. Master's Degree in Design and Exhibition Management from the Superior Center of Architecture/Antonio Camuñas Foundation and Institute of Higher Studies/Universidad San Pablo - CEU, 2005. Diploma of Advanced Studies and Research Sufficiency in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid, 2010. Chair Scholarship from the Museo Nacional del Prado, 2009 and the Resident Collaboration Scholarship at the Heritage Management Unit of the Complutense University of Madrid, 2009-2011. Member of the Heuresis Research Group. Study Group on the History of Pharmacy, pharmaceutical legislation and the History of Natural Sciences, from the Complutense University of Madrid. Also member of International Committee for University Museums and Collections of the International Council of Museums (UMAC-ICOM) and of the Spanish Association of Museologists (AEM). Since 2016 she is curator of the Hispanic Pharmacy Museum. Complutense University of Madrid. As a result of his latest research in materia medica, he has recently presented results at two international meetings promoted in Valencia by the Red Aromas Itinerarium Salutis in collaboration with the International University Observatory of Intangible Culture and the Global Village of the Universitat de València. Part of these results have been part of the International Seminar: Biodiversity, cultural worldview and traditional medicine (May 2023), and has focused on the study of belladonna and its applications over time; as for the others, they have delved into the history and pharmaceutical legacy of the Hispanic Pharmacy Museum, and have been presented at the International Seminar The Hygeia Legacy: Pharmacy Museums and Collections in Europe Heritage, Identity and Memory (May 2023). This last topic is also dealt with in the paper included in the monograph Drugs & Colors in History Revisiting historical traditions, pharmacies & workshops (M.L. Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Catarina Miguel, Claudia Pelosi, Eds.), Tirant Lo Blanch Ediciones, Valencia (2023, in press)

Professor emeritus at the University of Bern (Switzerland). Editor of the "Biography of Swiss Pharmacists" and supervisor of doctoral theses in Bern, Marburg and at ETH Zurich. Former president of the International and Swiss Societies for the History of Pharmacy, member of the International Academy for the History of Pharmacy, President of the Foundation Historical Library of Swiss Pharmacy. Member of the National Academy of Pharmacy (Paris), the Real Academia de Farmacia (Madrid) and the Reial Acadèmia de Farmácia de Catalunya (Barcelona).  Areas of work: pharmacognosy, pharmacopoeias, Cosmas and Damian, pharmaceutical literature. Main awards: Urdang Medal, Medaglia Conci, Medalla ́Cátedra Centenaria, Parmentier Medal, Medal Folch, Schelenz-Plakette, Henry-Sigerist-Preis, History of Pharmacy Prize, Paris. His latest research work on materia medica will be published in the book Drugs & Colors in History Revisiting historical traditions, pharmacies & workshops (M.L. Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Catarina Miguel, Claudia Pelosi, Eds.), Tirant Lo Blanch Editions, Valencia (2023, in press), with the title: “Grey, red, yellow and white. A contribution to the study of colors in the pharmacognosy around 1900 at the example of the cinchonas”

She is graduated in Chemical Engeneering and holds a PhD in Conservation Sciences. She is a Integrated Researcher at Laboratório HERCULES-Universidade de Évora and an Invited Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry of the Universidade de Évora. Catarina Miguel held a post-doctoral Fellow in a European Research Project at HERCULES Lab, where she was responsible for setting the Vibrational spectroscopy Lab of HERCULES Lab.  Currently, she works in the area of Heritage Sciences with emphasis on Analytical Chemistry - spectroscopic analysis. For the last 17 years, Catarina Miguel has dedicated her research to the study of the materials used to produce illuminated manuscripts. In 2014, coordinated the research project SCISTER (SCIentific Study of Cistercian Illuminated Scripts, Techniques, Esthetics and Religion) under which she coordinated the first Portuguese international mission to the Vatican Library to study 11th-13th century illuminated Cistercian manuscripts, and to Troyes (France) to analyse mediaeval illuminated manuscripts from Clairvaux Abbey-France. In Portugal, she has coordinated several interdisciplinary studies on the study of illuminated manuscripts, from the mediaeval to the renaissance period. Currently, she is the PI of the ROADMAP project (PTDC/ART-HIS/0985/2021), which will study the artworks by António de Holanda or attributed to him in a chronological perspective produced between 1515-1554. Member of the research project "Hispanic Rome: Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies applied to the conservation, musealization and dissemination of Spanish Cultural Heritage in Rome: the spezieria of Santa Maria della Scala" (Generalitat Valenciana; AICO 2020/083; Dir. Ma. Luisa Vazquez de Agredos Pascual. Editor of the book Drugs & Colors in History Revisiting historical traditions, pharmacies & workshops (M.L. Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Catarina Miguel, Claudia Pelosi, Eds.), Tirant Lo Blanch Editions, Valencia (2023, in press), in which she also presents a specialized paper.

She received her PhD in 2004 from the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, and her habilitation in 2022 from the Romanian Academy. Between 2021 and 2022, she was a senior researcher of PHARMATRANS – All Things Apothecary in 16th-20th Century Transylvania. The History of Pharmacy Collection in Cluj-Napoca, where she worked on the catalogue of manuscripts (pharmacy inventories, diplomas and certificates, prescriptions) from the 18th and 19th century. The research interests of Mária Pakucs were mostly shaped by her extensive work in the archives of Sibiu (Romania): history of trade with the Ottoman Empire, merchant networks in Southeastern Europe, urban history.

Selected publications:

"They Steal it from the Sultan's Pharmacy": Pharmaceuticals and Medicines in Early Modern Transylvania, Acta Musei Napocensis 2023 (forthcoming).

 Spices and Exotic Fruits in 17th Century Transylvania: The Customs Accounts of Sibiu, in Earthly Delights. Economies and Cultures of Food in Ottoman and Danubian Europe, c. 1500-1900, ed. Angela Jianu, Violeta Barbu, Leiden, Brill, 2018, p. 295-310.

 The Transit of Oriental Goods through the Customs of Sibiu/Hemannstadt in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: An Overview, în: Economy and Society in Central and Eastern Europe. Territory, population, consumption. Papers of the International Conference held in Alba-Iulia, April 25th-27th, 2013, eds. Dumitran, D., Moga, V., Münster,2013, p. 19-30.

Sibiu-Hermannstadt. Oriental trade in sixteenth century Transylvania, Köln, Böhlau Verlag, 2007 (seria Städteforschung,vol. 73), 229 p. + CD-ROM ISBN: 978-341-212-306-2.

For many years, she has been dealing with Rijeka's industrial heritage in various directions - research, digitization, interpretation. She is focused on historical topics from Rijeka's industrial and manufacturing past, as well as issues of revitalization of abandoned industrial spaces. She collaborates on the various projects in digitization of Rijeka's cultural and industrial heritage, mapping the industrial heritage of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, is the author of the Via Industria mobile application. She is the author of several exhibitions in the field of history of production in Rijeka. She is the president of the association Pro Torpedo, which deals with the promotion and preservation of Rijeka's industrial heritage. She participates in professional conferences and continuously educates herself in the field of interpretation and museology. She is an external associate of the Center for Industrial Heritage at the University of Rijeka. In 2023, she organized the temporary exhibition entitled “Alga Sušak – čuvar vašeg zdravlja” (Alga Sušak in Service of Health) in cooperation with and Rafaela Ban, curator of the Rijeka City Museum, and Marin Pintur, Director of the JGL Pharmacy Museum, held in the “Kockica” building of the Rijeka City Museum. The exhibition tells the fascinating story of the Alga Pharmaceutical and Cosmetics Laboratory, which the creators believe deserves to be told to younger generations as an important part of the national history of pharmacy.

Her habilitation, entitled “Evaluation of Introductive Medicinal Aromatic Plants (MAPs) biological qualities and their selection for the development of pharmaceutical and herbal drugs industry in Lithuania” (2009, Natural Sciences, Biology N 010), explored the selection of medicinal plants for Lithuania’s pharmaceutical industry. Her PhD dissertation, “Introduction of Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench in Lithuania” (1999, Medical and Health Sciences, Pharmacy M 003), investigated the introduction of Echinacea purpurea in the country. She has authored or co-authored over 540 publications, including 95 indexed in Clarivate Analytics Web of Science. Her major academic and educational works include “Didžioji vaistinių augalų knyga” (The Great Book of Medicinal Plants)(2022), “Introduction, cultivation and preservation of medicinal plants, preparation of medicinal plant raw materials and therapeutic effects. Educational book” (Kaunas: LSMU Academic Publishing House, 2021), “Psychostimulants and hallucinogens” (2010, University textbook, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences), four educational methodological books (2003, 2008, 2009, 2016), and “Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants” (2005). She has developed and coordinated several national and international research projects. One of her most notable projects was the creation of a regional innovative ecological center for MAPs in cooperation with the rural community. She also contributed to the development of a modern herbal dryer powered by alternative solar energy as part of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Support Project under the Lithuanian Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 (“Cultivation of medicinal plants and innovative technology using of solar energy for preparation medicinal plant raw materials”, Grant No. 1 PM-PV-10-1-003015-PR001, 2011-2014). Actively engaged in scientific dissemination, she has delivered 88 public lectures, participated in 103 television and 78 radio programs, and published 115 scientific knowledge articles. She has also contributed to legislative processes on medicinal plants in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania (2014-2021) and has been a member of the Lithuanian Health Council since 2021. A leading figure in the pharmaceutical sector, she has served as Editor-in-Chief of Lithuanian Pharmaceutical News and as President of the Lithuanian Pharmaceutical Association since 2013. She is a Council Member of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) (2005 – present) and a member of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (GP-TCM) Research Association (2015 – present).