Geert Van der Snickt received his Master in Conservation-Restoration in 2003 at the University of Antwerp. Shortly after, he affiliated with the Department of Chemistry of the same institute. In 2012, he successfully defended a PhD thesis entitled: “James Ensor’s pigments studied by means of portable and synchrotron radiation-based analysis: identification, evolution and degradation” guided by professor Koen Janssens, head of the Antwerp X-ray analysis, Electrochemistry and Speciation (AXES) group. From 2014 to 2018 he held a Chair on Chemical Imaging for the Arts within the same group. In 2019, he returned to the Conservation-Restoration department by accepting a position as tenure track professor. In parallel, he was appointed spokesman of the Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) research group. As a cultural heritage scientist, his work focuses on the application of radiation-based chemical imaging techniques for the characterisation of paintings and art materials, both with mobile instrumentation and at synchrotron facilities.
Geert Van der Snickt
