The food chemist has held the professorship in Instrumental Analysis at the Institute of Food Chemistry at TU Braunschweig since this summer semester. At the CSMC, she had led a research project entitled ‘Mass Spectrometric Proteome Analysis of Written Artefacts’.

Congratulations to Karin Becker on defending her doctoral dissertation and completing her PhD in Art History! The viva voce examination took place on 8 June 2026.

Two new ERC projects have started at the CSMC this summer semester: Márton Vér sheds new light on the history of the Silk Road, while Suganya Anandakichenin is developing the first comprehensive scholarly study of the Manipravalam language. She presents her work in a talk on 10 June.

Invasive versus non-invasive, destructive versus non-destructive: analytical methods are often described in binary terms. On closer look, these distinctions become questionable. Claudia Colini, head of ‘Ethical Analysis’, explains why even careful research can have unintended effects and what this means in practice.

What are the stories behind the Jewish cultural artefacts in the MARKK Museum’s collection? A new exhibition this late summer explores this question. In preparation for it, CSMC researcher Ümit Güder has carried out material science analyses on several objects.

With this step, the two institutions further strengthen their existing collaboration, particularly in palimpsest research using multispectral imaging and interdisciplinary methodologies.

With the mobile CT scanner ENCI, researchers can look inside sealed cuneiform tablets without opening them. An open-access article in ‘npj Heritage Science’ now provides the first in-depth account of the device and the results it yielded during its first meas-urement campaigns.

This summer semester, the CSMC is once again hosting its Digital Lunch Seminar Series. The online series highlights how digital methods and material analysis can illuminate manuscript cultures across regions, periods, and media.