Collaborating institutions

Our network partner institutions who agreed to collaborate with our Spectroscopy Laboratory and with whom we plan to realize: training of researchers, expert visits, lecturing at workshops/conference have been carefully chosen among leading institution in (1) the EU countries and (2) Western Balkan Countries:

EU countries

• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Dynamique, Interactions et Réactivité, CNRS- LADIR, Paris, France: Collaboration started recently and is intensified by the visit and training of our PhD student in LADIR laboratories on the application of non-destructive micro-Raman spectroscopy on the studies of common field of interest - Byzantine ceramics.
  Contact person: Philippe Colomban, PhD;
• Department for Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium: Collaboration has been established via COST G8 action: Non-destructive analysis and testing of museum objects. Two visits by our senior researchers and one young researcher have been realised in the last year in the field of common interest for studies of pigments in Byzantine frescoes and icons.
  Contact person: Prof. Peter Vandenabeele;
• Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece: Collaboration has been established through European Chemistry Thematic Network Association and/or mutual interests in the study of pigments in Byzantine art works.
  Contact person: Prof. Evangelia Varella;
• Faculty of Chemistry, University of Sofia, Bulgaria: Collaboration has started via mutual interest in the study of Byzantine ceramics.
  Contact person: Prof. Ivelin Kuleff.

WB countries

• Department of Instrumental Analytical Methods, Institute for Nuclear Physics, Tirana, Albania: Collaboration started recently within joint research on pigments in frescoes in Byzantine churches.
  Contact person: Nikolla Civici, PhD;
• Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia: Long term collaboration has been going on in the field of molecular spectroscopy.
  Contact person: Prof. Ivanka Holctajner-Antunovic.

Other EU collaborating institutions

• University of Genova, Dept. of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, Section of Inorganic Chemistry and Metallurgy, Genova, Italy
  Contact person: Ass. Prof. Paolo Piccardo;
• Dipartimento di Arte Scienza e Tecnica del Construire, Universita di Reggio Calabria, Italy
  Contact person: Maria Rosaria Giuffre, PhD.

Other regional collaborating institutions

• CERTO – Centre for Restoration by Optoelectronical Techniques, National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics, Bucharest, Romania
  Contact person: Roxana Radvan, PhD;
• Istanbul University, Department of Physics, Istanbul, Turkey
  Contact person: prof. Sevim Akyuz.
• Materials Institute, TUBITAK Marmara Research Center, Gebze Kocaeli, Turkey
  Contact person: prof. Fusun Okyar;
• VINCA, Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Serbia
  Contact person: Velibor Andric, PhD;
• Faculty of Sciences, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro,
  Centre for Eco-toxicological Research, Podgorica, Montenegro
  Contact person: Prof. Slobodan Jovanovic.

Collaborating institutions from Republic of Macedonia

• National Conservation Center
  Contact persons: Stanka Pavlovska – Josifovska, MSc; Lidija Čukovska;
• Conservation Laboratory of the National Bank of Republic of Macedonia
  Contact person: Dijana Vančevska;
• Institute for Old Slavonic Culture
  Contact person: Branislav Risteski, PhD;
• Museum of the City of Skopje
  Contact persons: Jovan Surbanovski, Sneska Lakaliska;
• Institution for Protection of Monuments of Culture and Museum Prilep
  Contact persons: Rubinco Belceski, Dusko Temelkoski;
• Museum of Macedonia, Skopje
  Contact person: Viktorija Popovska-Korobar, PhD;
• Faculty for Chemical Technology
  Contact persons: Prof. Gordana Bogoeva-Gaceva, Prof. Biljana Mangovska, Prof. Emilija Fidancevska.
• National and University Library “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Skopje
  Contact persons: Zorica Jakovleska-Spirovska, MSc.