Postdoctoral fellowship at University of Oslo

Postdoctoral fellowship in wood conservation
Saving Oseberg Project
Museum of Cultural History (KHM)
University of Oslo

The Museum of Cultural History (KHM), University of Oslo invites
applications for a two year postdoctoral research fellowship in the
project Saving Oseberg.  The museum houses the extensive and highly
valued Oseberg collection which represents one of the most
comprehensive collections of Viking Age wooden objects in the world.
The artefacts are severely threatened by a slow but on-going
deterioration process caused by a conservation treatment applied one
hundred years ago.  In addition, the artefacts are restored to such
a degree, that undoing or removing these treatments would
irreversibly damage the artefacts.  In order to develop a
preservation strategy for these highly complex and degraded
artefacts, the museum launched the research project Saving Oseberg.

Within the framework of Saving Oseberg, the postdoctor will test and
evaluate conservation materials and develop testing protocols.
Conservation materials include consolidants as well as agents used
to inactivate harmful ions and to control pH value.  The project
will cover characterisation of the wood before and after treatments,
using a variety of analytical methods, imaging techniques and
mechanical tests.  Aging experiments under various conditions will
be performed.  The complexity of the objects and the fact, that many
of them are covered with coatings, makes extensive application
studies necessary.

The position is for a period of two years and should start by
december 2015.

For further information please visit our website

    <URL:http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1405828/71569?iso=no>

or contact

    Dr Hartmut Kutzke
    Museum of Cultural History
    University of Oslo
    PO Box 6762 St. Olavs plass
    N-0130 Oslo
    Norway
    +47 22 85 94 77
    hartmut.kutzke<-at->khm<.>uio<.>no


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