Louise Smieska and Ruth Mullet

Louisa Smieska took on the project as a postdoctoral researcher at CHESS (Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source) after completing her doctorate in chemistry. She studied fine art as an undergraduate at Hamilton College; she is now an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Scientific Research at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Ruth Mullett is a medieval studies doctoral student at Cornell. She is also a fellow in the Fragmentarium project based at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, which is building a database of fragments from different institutions.