Contact
2/F, T. T. Tsui Building
Telephone: +852 3917 XXXX
Email Lynn Lee

Education
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
B.S. in Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz 

Bio

​Dr. Lynn Lee is the incoming Senior Research Scientist at UMAG starting this fall.  Previously, she was the inaugural Senior Conservation Scientist at Hong Kong’s M+ Museum from 2022-2025 and was at the Getty Conservation Institute from 2011-2021.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Physical Chemistry. Following a brief stint in the semiconductor industry as a process engineer in Silicon Valley, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Conservation Science at the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard University, from 2007-2010. Her interests include investigating material deterioration, developing in-situ, minimally invasive analytical methodologies to further understand artist practice and techniques; and engaging in research into practice for the conservation and conservation science sectors. She is currently on the Directory Board of the International Council of Museums – Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC) and a co-author of Handheld XRF in Cultural Heritage: A Practical Workbook for Conservators, published in 2020.

Research Interests

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• Material Deterioration

• Developing in-situ, minimally invasive analytical methodologies to further understand artist practice and techniques

• Engaging in research into practice for the conservation and conservation science sectors

Courses

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• MUSE7005 Collections Acquisitions, Management and Care

Selected Publications

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• Liang, H., Butler, L., Kogou, S., Burke, M., Lee, L., Pardo, L.P., Angelova, L., France, F., and McCarthy, B. 2024.  From Lima to Canton and beyond:  Mobile and digital research infrastructure for closing the gap between resource-rich and resource-poor organisations.  Studies in Conservation 69 (S1):  198.

• Freeman, S.K., Sullivan, M., Daly, N.S., Hellman, K. and Lee, L, 2023. Deconstructing the Creation of Daguerre’s dessins-fumées: A Photographic Process or Just Smoke and Mirrors?. Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, 62(4), pp.285-302.

• Kogou, S., Lee, L., Shahtahmassebi, G., and Liang, H. 2021. A new approach to the interpretation of XRF spectral imaging data using neural networks.  X-ray Spectrometry 2021; 1-10. 

• Bezur, A., Lee, L., Loubser, M., and Trentelman, K. 2020.  Handheld XRF in Cultural Heritage:  A Practical Workbook for Conservators, Los Angeles:  Getty Conservation Institute.  

• Heginbotham, A., Bourgarit, D., Day, J., Dorscheid, J., Godla, J., Lee, L., Pappot, A., and Robcis, D. 2019. CHARMed PyMca, Part II:  An evaluation of interlaboratory reproducibility for ED-XRF analysis of copper alloys.  Archeometry 61 (6):  1333.

• Daly, N. S., Sullivan, M., Lee, L., Delaney, J.K., and Trentelman, K. 2019. Odilon Redon’s noir drawings: Characterization of materials and methods using noninvasive imaging and spectroscopies. Heritage Science 7 (1): 43. 

• Defeyt, C., Mazurek, J., Lee, L., and Phenix, A. 2019. Appendix I: Summary of data from thirty-seven paintings. In Sam Francis, By Debra Burchett-Lere and Aneta Zebala. 120-27. The Artist's Materials. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute.

• Defeyt, C., Karaszkiewicz, P., MacDonald-Korth, E., Lee, L., Mazurek, J., Muros, V., Phenix, A.,  and Strivay, D. 2019. Appendix III: Analytic methods and sample preparation. In Sam Francis, By Debra Burchett-Lere and Aneta Zebala. 133-34. The Artist's Materials. Los