Steering Committee

Liisa Näsänen (Chair)
National Museum of Finland
A conservator (specialised in Marine Archaeological Materials) with multidisciplinary experience from working and studying in organisations in Finland, Ireland, the UK and the US.
Liisa has held managerial positions with duties including management of conservation laboratories, project and budget administration, supervision of staff and interns, business development, design and delivery of courses and lectures in conservation and cultural heritage management, research design and development, public outreach, exhibition development and set-up, as well as conservation bench-work and on-site work.
She is currently working at the Collection and Conservation Centre of the National Museum of Finland, mainly concentrating in marine and waterlogged materials. She completed a PhD Research degree in Conservation on the applicability of subcritical fluids to the treatment of copper alloy artefacts of cultural significance.

Eero Ehanti
National Museum of Finland
An art historian and object conservator by training and an experienced museum- and cultural heritage professional, thanks to some 18 years of working in the field in various positions, mostly in Finland but also elsewhere, most memorably in Alexandria, Egypt, and Damascus, Syria. Also, serves as a board member of the International Council of Museum’s regional alliance ICOM Nord.
Eero has a wide experience in cultural-historical museums varying from practical conservation, storing and cataloguing tasks to more spotlight-catching bits such as publishing, exhibition making, media connections and lecturing. For two years he led a nationwide project providing tools and guidelines for museums’ collections’ management.
Currently the head of the Conservation department at the National Museum of Finland and a founding partner of a cultural heritage consultation company called For Our Generation.

Heikki Häyhä
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Heikki Häyhä (MA), teaches conservation to future museum professionals at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. He was involved in drafting a sustainable development guide for the museum industry and has found that changes in this direction are slow. His background is in conservation and has a BA in Object conservation from Metropolia, Helsinki, and an MA from Gothenburg University.
Heikki works as a senior lecturer at the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, and is a founding partner of a cultural heritage consultation company called For Our Generation. He has also been lecturing and carrying out projects about conservation, collection care and significance of culture heritage in Finland and abroad. Heikki has coordinated several EU-projects and has been active in the museum field as a board member of ICOM-Finland and the Finnish Cultural Heritage Foundation.
His great interest in sailing and boats, their construction and cultural history has led him to many important positions on that field.

Paul Mardikian
Terra Mare Conservation
Paul Mardikian is co-founder and senior conservator of Terra Mare Conservation, a private practice specializing in the conservation of cultural heritage artifacts from archaeological, industrial, public art and architectural contexts. Paul holds a graduate degree in conservation from the Sorbonne University and a degree in archaeology and art history from the School of Louvre in Paris.
With over 30 years of experience as a leading national and international expert on the conservation of maritime, military and technological cultural heritage, he has provided his expertise to numerous projects world-wide including the RMS Titanic, RMS Carpathia, CSS Alabama, CSS Jackson, SS Xantho, H.L. Hunley, the French ironclad Magenta, NASA Space Shuttle Challenger and Columbia and flown Saturn V rocket engines from the Apollo missions 11, 12, 14, 16 and 17. Paul has published widely in books, professional journals and conference proceedings and he has been featured on several national and international television documentaries.
Paul is a fellow of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic works (AIC) and Coordinator for the ICOM-CC Metals Working Group. He has been actively involved with the organization and delivery of a number of international conferences including Metal 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 and Aluminum: History, Technology and Conservation in 2014 where he variously served as program chair, co-organizer, editor, and as a member of the program committee.
Organising Committee
Liisa Näsänen
National Museum of Finland
Eero Ehanti
National Museum of Finland
Heikki Häyhä
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Conservation Students
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Elisa Ahverdov
National Museum of Finland
Aki Arponen
National Museum of Finland
Stina Björklund
National Museum of Finland
Satu Haapakoski
National Museum of Finland
Anna Hyppönen
National Museum of Finland
Roni Iilomo
Finnish Heritage Agency
Pia Klaavu
National Museum of Finland
Jenniina Laine
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Kari Nordfors
National Museum of Finland
Ane Orue-Etxebarria
National Museum of Finland
Päivi Paajanen-Salmi
National Museum of Finland
Sanna Paakkanen
National Museum of Finland
Viktor Sohlström
National Museum of Finland
Toni Spännäri
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Students of ICT and Media Technology
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Editorial Committee
Paul Mardikian
Coordinator, ICOM-CC Metals Working Group
Liisa Näsänen
National Museum of Finland
Aki Arponen
National Museum of Finland
Program Committee
Ahmad Abu Baker
Yarmouk University, Jordan
Jerrad Alexander
National Air and Space Museum, USA
Vasiliki Argyropoulos
Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece
Tonny Beentjes
The University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Valentin Boissonnas
Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-restauration, Switzerland
Emilio Cano Díaz
Centro Nacional De Investigaciones Metalurgicas, Spain
Claudia Chemello
Terra Mare Conservation LLC, USA
Cristina Chiavari
University of Bologna, Italy
Jannen Contreras Vargas
National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico
Nicola Emmerson
Cardiff University, Wales, UK
Susanne Gänsicke
J. Paul Getty Museum, USA
Stavroula Golfomitsou
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Elodie Guilminot
Arc’Antique, France
Heikki Häyhä
Metropolia University, Finland
Paola Letardi
Istituto di scienze marine, Italy
Ian MacLeod
Heritage Conservation Solutions, Australia
Paul Mardikian
Terra Mare Conservation, LLC, USA
Henning Matthiesen
National Museum of Denmark, Denmark
Liisa Näsänen
National Museum of Finland, Finland
Delphine Neff
CEA Saclay, France
Omid Oudbashi
University of Isfahan, Iran
Lyndsie Selwyn
Canadian Conservation Institute (retired), Canada
Vandana Singh
Center for Art Conservation and Research Experts, India
Stina Björklund
National Museum of Finland, Finland
David Thickett
English Heritage, London, UK
Johanna Thunberg
Cardiff University, Wales, UK
David Thurrowgood
Applied Conservation Science, Australia
Ellen van Bork
Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands
David Watkinson
Cardiff University, Wales, UK
Katia Viegas Wesolowska
National Museum of Gdansk, Poland