JP Brown holds degrees in Archaeological Conservation from University College Cardiff, and Computer Science from University of Chicago. He taught practical and preventive conservation at UCC until 1993 when he moved to the US. For ten years he worked with WB Rose & Associates on designing and building monitoring systems for historic structures including Independence Hall and Mount Vernon; he began working at the Field Museum in 2002. JP's research interests encompass object conservation methods, computer-based object documentation, preventive conservation, imaging, and the non-destructive and minimally destructive analysis of archaeological and ethnographic structures and materials. His joint work with Field Museum Anthropology curators Gary Feinman and Ryan Williams on the origins of the Maya Blue pigment was listed by Archaeology Magazine in the top ten archaeological discoveries of 2008. In 2006 he got a chance to use CT scanning on museum artifacts and has been scanning specimens ever since.