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As an adjunct lecturer, Eric Doehne teaches six interdisciplinary art conservation courses at 61´«Ã½that attract a core audience of art conservation majors, artists, historians, chemists, environmental analysts, and computer scientists, as well as students from over 35 majors across the five colleges. Since 2011, these courses have delved into the complex and engaging issues surrounding the art and science of cultural heritage preservation. His most recent course on Digital Preservation, ARCN144, is a Mellon-funded Digital Humanities course, while his most popular course, ARCN115, captures multiple aspects of art crime.

Eric’s research activities include a scientific study of an ancient mosaic for the FBI, environmental monitoring and a deterioration mechanism study for the Alamo, and a training course on stone preservation at Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt.

Eric Doehne is a geologist, electron microscopist, and conservation scientist specializing in historic materials, such as ancient pigments, ceramics and stone. He is a materials scientist who has analyzed the preservation and technology of the Dead Sea scrolls, the Sistine Chapel, Laetoli Footprints (3.6 mya), and the First Photograph (1826). A staff scientist and consultant for the Getty for many years, in 2012, Dr. Doehne was the International Chair for the PATRIMA project in French cultural heritage preservation.