mgv@fct.unl.pt

• ORCID 0000-0002-3695-5410
• Ciência ID D 0C15-AD4D-B169
• Scopus Author ID 6506034207

Paul J.C. van Laar is a technical art historian based in Cambridge, the United Kingdom. He is currently Research Associate Scientific Research at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Hamilton Kerr Institute (University of Cambridge). He obtained a cum laude MSc in Technical Art History at the University of Amsterdam (2021) and is currently pursuing a PhD, researching the varied use of the blue pigment smalt by Early Modern Paintings, in a project shared between NOVA Universidade de Lisboa (Research Unit VICARTE: Glass and Ceramics for the Arts), and the University of Cambridge (Fitzwilliam Museum/Hamilton Kerr Institute). He is also Assistant Editor for ArtMatters: International Journal of Technical Art History. 

Representative works:

Bossema, Francien G., Paul J. C. van Laar, Kimberly Meechan, Daniel O’Flynn, Joanne Dyer, Tristan van Leeuwen, Suzan Meijer, Erma Hermens, and K. Joost Batenburg. ‘Inside out: Fusing 3D Imaging Modalities for the Internal and External Investigation of Multi-Material Museum Objects’. Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 31 (1 December 2023): e00296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.daach.2023.e00296.

Kiss, Maximilian B., Francien G. Bossema, Paul J. C. van Laar, Suzan Meijer, Felix Lucka, Tristan van Leeuwen, and K. Joost Batenburg. ‘Beam Filtration for Object-Tailored X-Ray CT of Multi-Material Cultural Heritage Objects’. Heritage Science 11, no. 1 (19 June 2023): 130. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-023-00970-z.