Vasilike Argyropoulou, Board Member
Director of Master’s Program in Conservation of Cultural Heritage
University of West Attica (UNIWA)
Dept. Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5357-9031
Vasilike Argyropoulos is a Professor in Conservation and the Director of the Master’s in Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the Dept. of Conservation of Antiquities & Works of Art, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece. She has been a board member of ENCORE since 2003. She was the Convenor of European standards’ technical committee for the conservation of cultural property, CEN/TC 346 WG2, Materials constituting cultural property (2012-2016). For the past 27 years, she has held an academic position at the University, and was successful in achieving full professorship in Metals Conservation. She has been responsible for teaching and creating a laboratory in her field where through various grants, she was able to equip her Lab with state-of-the-art
equipment for diagnostic analysis and testing of metals. She has co-ordinated many European and International projects related to conservation of antiquity in the Europe and the Arab region, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, and Syria.
Just recently, she was a guest speaker at the International Conference on Climate Change Impacts on Cultural Heritage held in Athens, Greece in June 2019, where the concluding documents was presented at United Nations, COPA25. She has supervised many Ph.D. and Masters Students, and undergraduate dissertations involving research in conservation of cultural heritage, as well as has organized many international workshops, conferences, and diploma courses for conservation and conservation science. Finally, she has over 75 peer reviewed publications, as well as edited books and journals related to conservation of cultural heritage.