Serena Di Gaetano from Istituto Centrale per il Restauro (Italy) was unanimously elected as Board Member at the 2nd General Assembly held at the University of Pardubice, Faculty of Restoration (Litomyšl, Czech Republic) on 3-4 April 2025.

Serena is a conservator-restorer with a dual academic and professional background in art history and conservation of cultural heritage. Since 2018 she has been a civil servant in the position of senior conservator-restorer at the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro (Italy), working in the stone and mosaic laboratories. Her research interests and publications focus on the polychromy of stone statues and ancient mosaic techniques, classical and medieval decorative systems and the relevance of cultural heritage. She is currently completing her doctoral research focused on the definition and conservation issues of rupestrian contexts and hypogeal environments.

She is involved in several projects for the conservation and enhancement cultural heritage assets, collaborating with non-profit organisations and research centres and she is actively involved in the representation of the profession as a member of the Board of ARI (Association of Conservator-Restorers of Italy).