"(講者簡介暫時只有英文－不便之處，敬請原諒)
Astrid Harth is an assistant professor in the Department Chinese and History at the City University of Hong Kong. She is an art historian and painting conservator (B.A. and M.A.) and holds a PhD in Art Science from Ghent University. Before joining CityUHK, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (Belgium) and a visiting scholar at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the field of technical art history, which is aimed at connecting the scientific study of the materiality of artworks with art historical research. She has received competitive research grants from the Research Foundation Flanders, the Integrating Platforms for the European Research Infrastructure ON Heritage Science (IPERION HS), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Chester Dale Fellowship), and the University Grants Committee (UGC) Hong Kong. Currently, she is the guest editor of a thematic collection on technical art history for Heritage Science together with Dr. Maryan Ainsworth (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). "