Philippe Walter MS, PhD

Dr. Philippe Walter is the research director at the Laboratory of Molecular and structural archaeology (LAMS – CNRS/UPMC) in Paris. He is developing new analytical tools adapted to the study of ancient materials, with the ion beam analysis facility AGLAE located in the Louvre, and with synchrotron radiation and home-made portable instruments using X-rays. His main research interests are focused on the use of analytical chemistry to understand the development of chemistry for health and beauty during Antiquity or the elaboration of new painting materials, for instance during the Renaissance period. He received an MS degree in physics at the Ecole Normale supérieure de Lyon and a Ph.D. degree in geochemistry from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France in 1993. He belongs to the CNRS since 1995 and he has received 2008 the silver medal of this French research organization and 2010 the Franklin-Lavoisier prize in Philadelphia.