{"id":18237,"date":"2018-01-31T17:32:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T22:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=18237"},"modified":"2018-01-31T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T22:32:12","slug":"apply-to-the-rathgen-heritage-science-scholarship-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2018\/01\/31\/apply-to-the-rathgen-heritage-science-scholarship-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply to the Rathgen Heritage Science Scholarship 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rathgen Research Laboratory is the leading institution for conservation science, art technology and archaeometry at the National Museums in Berlin. It carries out investigations on a broad variety of materials within the museum environment and focuses its research on scientific issues concerning the care of monuments and archaeological sites.<\/p>\n<p>It carries forward the tradition of the world&#8217;s oldest scientific museum laboratory, the Chemical Laboratory of the Royal Museums in Berlin, which was founded on April 1st, 1888 and bears the name of its first director, Friedrich Rathgen.<\/p>\n<p>It is the mission of the Friends of Rathgen (F\u00f6rderkreis des Rathgen-Forschungslabors e.V.,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rathgen-foerderkreis.de\/\">www.rathgen-foerderkreis.de\/<\/a>) to support the work of the Rathgen Research Laboratory in various ways, among others by supporting research projects of young professionals in heritage science.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, the Rathgen Heritage Science Scholarships have been established in 2009 and are awarded annually. The Rathgen Heritage Science Scholarship enables young professionals to undertake a project at the laboratory within a 1-3 month duration. The topic is proposed by the applicant. Successful applicants will receive a scholarship for Post-Graduate Scholarship of EUR 900 month and Post-doc Scholarship EUR 1,200 per month.<\/p>\n<p>The topic of the research project can be proposed freely by the applicant or chosen from the following three proposed topics, if the applicant has the required previous knowledge:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Study the gold alloy of rings and jewelry by micro-X-ray fluorescence analysis.<\/li>\n<li>Optimization of the Quantification routines for studying archaeological glasses by means of portable X-ray fluorescence analysis<\/li>\n<li>Development of a method for the removal of shell lacquer on ceramics without discoloring the objects through the solving of the lacquer.<\/li>\n<li>Analyses of medieval silk dyestuff and mordant from different origins by means of HPLC and XRF<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The application consists of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1-2 pages explaining the research proposal, the required resources and the envisaged time\u00a0frame, including preliminary work accomplished and short bibliography<\/li>\n<li>CV including list of publications<\/li>\n<li>2 reference letters of support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Deadline for 2018 applications is February 23, 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please submit your application electronically to:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:rf@smb.spk-berlin.de%3cmailto:rf@smb.spk-berlin.de\">rf@smb.spk-berlin.de<\/a>,\u00a0or by mail to:<\/p>\n<p>Rathgen-Forschungslabor<br \/>\n&#8211; Scholarship &#8211;<br \/>\nSchlossstrasse 1 A<br \/>\n14059 Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rathgen Research Laboratory is the leading institution for conservation science, art technology and archaeometry at the National Museums in Berlin. It carries out investigations on a broad variety of materials within the museum environment and focuses its research on scientific issues concerning the care of monuments and archaeological sites. It carries forward the tradition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2018\/01\/31\/apply-to-the-rathgen-heritage-science-scholarship-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apply to the Rathgen Heritage Science Scholarship 2018&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[903],"class_list":["post-18237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grants","tag-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}