Fang-Yi Su

Supervisor: Xavi Aure Calvet

Fang-Yi will investigate the preservation state of the original oak timbers of both ships and explore how the different environments and conservation treatments they have experienced have altered the initial materials and their associated properties (chemical, biological and mechanical). How this then influences their respective conservation management strategies and can be incorporated into the ships’ long-term conservation strategies will subsequently be explored. She will further investigate how the different wood preservation states and the impact of conservation treatments can be recorded visually for dissemination through museum websites and visitor attractions, thereby engaging the public with this crucial work that ensures the survival of these unique objects.

Fang-Yi holds an undergraduate degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan and a master’s in Cultural Materials from the University of Sheffield. Since graduating, she has worked for the Department of Cultural Heritage Conservation at the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology in Taiwan as a research assistant, collaborating with the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Bureau of Cultural Heritage and Taiwan Electric Research & Testing Center, where she focused on the material characteristic research of different cultural heritage objects and artworks as well as participating in conservation work.