Letizia Monico

Biography

Letizia Monico is a senior researcher at the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Technologies “Giulio Natta” (SCITEC) of the National Research Council (CNR) and a visiting scientist in the AXIS research group of the Physics Department at the University of Antwerp. In 2012, she earned a joint PhD in Chemistry from the universities of Perugia and Antwerp, specializing in the study of alteration processes and the characterization of artists’ materials, with a focus on inorganic pigments in paintings. Her research uses vibrational and SR-based X-ray microspectroscopies. She is co-coordinator of the Historical Materials BAG at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble. From 2013 to 2022, her research on the alteration processes of pigments received different awards: the Eric Samuel Award (Microscopy Society of America), the SILS-SPECS PhD Award (Italian Synchrotron Radiation Society), the Primo Levi Prize, and the Rossi Manaresi Medal (both from the Italian Chemical Society).