Dr. Anikó Bezur is the Wallace S. Wilson director of the Technical Studies Laboratory at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. She joined Yale in 2012 to develop a scientific research group dedicated to the study and preservation of Yale’s collections through the characterization of their materials. She holds a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Arizona and completed graduate internships at the Getty Conservation Institute and the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute. Prior to joining Yale, Anikó was Andrew W. Mellon research scientist for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Menil Collection, and before that she held positions as an associate conservation scientist at the Art Institute of Chicago and as a lecturer and assistant professor of conservation science in the Art Conservation Department at Buffalo State College.