Alessandro Re

Alessandro Re is a researcher at the Physics Department of the University of Torino and he is part of CHNet (Cultural Heritage Network), the network of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) devoted to Cultural Heritage. He works on archaeometry and diagnostics applied to Cultural Heritage since 2007. His main interest is the realization and the upgrade of new instruments and methods to be applied in the archaeometric field. Among the instruments he developed there are devices to perform X-ray radiography and tomography of artworks and archaeological findings (from millimetric size and up to some meters) and setups to detect the luminescence induced in various materials by X-ray or ion beams. Now he is working in the integration of different analytical and imaging techniques in a single portable instrument, for the analysis of cultural heritage materials directly in museums or archaeological excavations. His favourite hobby is a provenance study of lapis lazuli, a long-term project devoted to find a non-invasive way, using technological instrumentations, to discriminate the origin of this precious stone, used since the antiquity to create marvellous artefacts.