Satoko Tanimoto

Mellon Fellow
Scientific examination and study of broad range of museum objects and research in the area of conservation science. Department: Conservation and Scientific Research

 

With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research has appointed the first of two Mellon Fellows in Conservation Science, and Dr Satoko Tanimoto took up this three-year fellowship at the beginning of March 2007.

Satoko has recently completed a PhD entitled ‘Experimental Study of Late Bronze Age Glass-Making Practice’ at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. During her PhD, Satoko also spent several extended periods working in the Science Section at the Victoria and Albert Museum and worked as a tutor in the Conservation Department at the City and Guilds Art School.

Satoko has a first degree from the Kobe Pharmaceutical University (Chemistry and Pharmacy/Pharmacology) in Japan and a MSc in Environmental Sciences and Management from the University of San Francisco, where she studied volatile leaf oils by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Satoko also spent a year as an intern at the Getty Conservation Institute, where she worked with David Scott on a number of projects, using a range of analytical techniques, including the study of ancient Egyptian cartonnages.

Satoko has recently returned from India (Ahhichatragarh Fort/Nagaur Fort) where she was working on wall paintings with inlaid-mirror/glass decorations for a month before taking up the Fellowship at the British Museum (Conservation project of the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Mehrangarh Museum Trust).

Contact

stanimoto@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7323 8795

Current projects

  • Italian 15th century drawings

  • Chalk cups from Grimes Grave

External fellowships/ membership of professional bodies

  • Mellon Fellowship

  • Member of the Institute of Conservation (ICON)

Recent publications

S.Tanimoto, 'Interactions between silicate and salt melts in LBA glass-making', with Th. Rehren, Journal of Archaeological Science, 35/9, (2008), pp. 2566-2573

S. Tanimoto, 'An Ancient Egyptian cartonnage broad collar: technical examination of pigments and binding media', with D.A. Scott, L. Swartz Dodd, J. Furihata, J. Keeney, M. R. Schilling and E. Cowan, Studies in Conservation, 49/3, (2004), pp. 177-192

S. Tanimoto,'Removal Mechanism of NO in Flue Gas by Microalgae', with Y. Okamoto, M.Yorozu, H.Nagase, K.Hirata and K.Miyamoto, The Society for Bioscience and Bioengineering, Japan, 10 (19980831), (1998) p. 51

 
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