Katrien Keune

PhD, chemist, is head of Science at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and professor by special appointment of Molecular Spectroscopy at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands. Since 2025, she is the interim chair of the Dutch network for research for moving heritage, Netherlands Institute for Conservation+Art+Science+ (NICAS). Keune is specialized in ageing and degradation studies of pigments and oil paintings at the micro- and molecular level. She initiated and (co)led many national and international interdisciplinary research projects funded by programmes as Horizon Europa, EU-H2020, EU-JPI, NWO-NICAS and NWO-TALENT. One such project is the GoGreen project (Horizon Europa, 2022-2026) of which Keune is the coordinator.