The European Ceramic Society
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Spain
Material Culture and Heritage
Conservation science and archaeometric research on historic materials, mainly glass and ceramic materials.
Director : Dr Maria-Angeles Villegas
Email : mariangeles.villegas@cchs.csic.es
Phone : +34 91 602 26 72
Address : Instituto de Historia, CCHS-CSIC. Calle Albasanz, 26-28. 28037 Madrid, Spain.
Website : http://cervitrum.wixsite.com/cervitrum
Research topics :
- Preventive conservation strategies: It is carried out by means of both environmental sensors and protective coatings based on the Sol-Gel procedure.
Contact information:
Contact name: Dr Maria-Angeles Villegas
Tel: +34 91 602 26 72
E-mail: mariangeles.villegas@cchs.csic.es - Chemical-physical characterization of historic materials: to study technology and raw materials used to produce glass and ceramic material items.
Contact information:
Contact name: Dr Manuel Garcia-Heras
Tel: +34 91 602 24 65
E-mail: manuel.gheras@cchs.csic.es - Diagnosis of deterioration and degradation processes of historic materials: produced by natural weathering or by accelerated aging in the laboratory.
Contact information:
Contact name: MSc Fernando Agua
Tel: +34 91 602 27 29
E-mail: fernando.agua@cchs.csic.es
Financial support programmes :
- European funding: FSE and FEDER EU funds through the Geomaterials 2 Program.
- Regional funding: Geomaterials 2 Program. Regional Government of Madrid (ref. S2013/MIT-2914) “Technologies and conservation of Heritage geomaterials”.
- National funding: I+D+i Program oriented to Society Challenges, MINECO (ref. MAT2015-65445-C2-2-R) “Multifunctional coatings for protection of materials and collections from the Cultural Heritage”.
Latest news
2025 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!
In the frame of the 2025 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a first call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2025 International Symposium on Green Processing for Advanced Ceramics (IGPAC 2025), organised by the Ceramic Society of Japan, from 5th to 9th October 2025 in Ise-Shima/Mie, Japan.
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 31st August 2025!
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of October 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st August 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before November 2025.
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