About Jennifer Mass

Jennifer Mass is director of the Winterthur Museum's Scientific Research and Analysis Laboratory and a faculty member in the Winterthur/University of Delaware MS Program in Art Conservation. As a senior scientist at the laboratory with a PhD in inorganic chemistry, she researches how artists' pigments change over time and how paintings can be studied in depth with nondestructive techniques. She has published numerous articles on her research in art conservation, physics and materials science journals, and received awards for her confocal X-ray fluorescence (XRF) research from the Italian Society for Nondestructive Testing and the Materials Research Society. Mass recently co-edited a volume on handheld XRF applications in art and archaeology and co-organized two symposia on the application of synchrotron-based methodologies to the study of cultural heritage.