Faculty

Anya Dani

Director of Community Engagement and Inclusive Practice / Lecturer

Community-based conservation; Decolonizing collections stewardship; Increasing racial justice, equity, and inclusion in art conservation

Contact Information

Email: anyadani@ioa.ucla.edu

Ioanna Kakoulli

Professor Materials Science and Engineering Department; Archaeomaterials Group; Co-Director Molecular and Nano Archaeology Laboratory at UCLA

Archaeological materials from the macro to the micro and to the nano length scale; forensic analytical imaging & conservation; materials science; archaeomimetism and archaeoinspired materials; Hellenistic and Roman painting; technology and synthesis of pigments; materials reverse engineering processing and diagenesis.

Contact Information

Email: kakoulli@ucla.edu
Office: Fowler A410
Phone: (310) 794-4915

Ellen Pearlstein

Professor, Information Studies and the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage
Internship Coordinator

Plant materials used as paint binders or patination materials on cultural objects; indigenous communities and conservation decision-making; the developing role of preventive conservation; conservation education.

Professor Pearlstein is retiring from UCLA effective June 2024. While she will continue to work with current MA and PhD students as well as her own grant and research initiatives, she will not be accepting new PhD students.

Contact Information

Email: epearl@ucla.edu
Office: Fowler A410
Phone: (310) 794-4940

Thiago Sevilhano Puglieri

Assistant Professor of Art History and Cultural Heritage Conservation

Technical Studies; Conservation Science; Indigenous Cultural Heritage of the Americas; Latin American Cultural Heritage

Contact Information

Email: tspuglieri@humnet.ucla.edu
Office: A410

Glenn Wharton

Lore and Gerald Cunard Chair, UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Professor of Art History and Conservation of Material Culture

Archaeological Conservation; Illicit trade; Cultural heritage management, Contemporary Art Conservation with specialization in time-based media; Artist archives; Addressing social justice, inclusion, and climate change in conservation.

Contact Information

Email: glennwharton@ucla.edu
Office: Fowler A410
Phone: (310) 794-4855


Affiliated Faculty


Jane Bassett

Senior Conservator and Department Head, Decorative Arts and Sculpture Conservation, J. Paul Getty Museum

Bronze casting techniques Medieval to Modern. Technical study of bronze, terracotta, polychrome and marble sculpture. Preventive care of silver, stained glass and tapestries.

Contact Information

Email: jbassett@getty.edu

Phone: 310.440.7177

Alice Boccia Paterakis

Lecturer for the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Director of Conservation, Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology, Turkey

Archaeological objects conservation. Care of archaeological collections, preventive conservation of artifacts, monitoring soil conditions on site, monitoring pre-excavation and post-excavation conditions for objects, screening of archaeological objects for stability post-excavation, screening of metal artifacts for corrosion potential. Consolidation of clay, adobe, and ceramic materials.

Contact Information

Email: apat@ucla.edu

Susanne Gänsicke

Senior Conservator of Antiquities and Department Head of Antiquities Conservation at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Ancient Mediterranean and Nile Valley material culture, site preservation, relocation of monumental sculptures, materials and manufacturing techniques of ancient and historic metalwork, and the intersection of traditional craftsmanship and conservation. She is a team member of the conservation project “The auloi from Meroë, Sudan” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Contact Information

Email: sgaensicke@getty.edu

Phone: (310) 440 7121

Tom Learner

Head of the Getty Conservation Institute's (GCI) Science Department

Contact Information

Email: tlearner@getty.edu

Karen Trentelman

Senior Scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI)

Technical studies; Non-invasive spectroscopies (XRF, Raman, FORS) and imaging technologies; reverse engineering of historic artistic practices; elucidation of pigment degradation pathways; fostering communication between scientists, conservators and curators.

Contact Information

Email: ktrentelman@getty.edu


Emeritus Faculty


David A. Scott

Emeritus Professor and Founding Director, UCLA/Getty Conservation Program

Analysis of museum objects, the characterization of pigments, ancient metals and microstructure, the teaching of conservation, and the archaeometallurgy of preHispanic Colombia and Ecuador

Contact Information

Email: dascott@g.ucla.edu