Francesca Casadio

Francesca Casadio is an American-Italian conservation scientist and Founding Director of the Scientific Research Laboratory at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2006 she was awarded the L’Oréal Art and Science of Colour Silver Prize.

Early life and education Casdio grew up in Turin, and attended Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio. She has said that she was always interested in art and cultural heritage. She spent 1995 as an Erasmus scholar at Imperial College London. After earning her doctorate she moved to Rome, where she worked on conservation science and diagnostic spectroscopies. She is interested with the development of non-destructive and non-invasive characterisation techniques. In 2006 Casadio was honoured with the L’Oréal Art and Science of Colour Silver Prize.

She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Sorbonne University in 2019.