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Eleanor Schofied
Born
Eleanor Josephine Schofield

(1980-03-26) March 26, 1980 (age 44)
Alma materImperial College London (MEng, PhD)
Known forConservation work
Scientific career
FieldsMaterials science[1]
Institutions
ThesisFormation and characterisation of nanoporous materials (2006)
Doctoral advisorMary Ryan
Websiteimperial.ac.uk/people/e.schofield

Eleanor Josephine Schofield (born 26 March 1980[2]) is the Head of Conservation & Collections Care at the Mary Rose Trust.[3][1][4] She is an honorary Professor at the University of Kent. In 2015 she was selected as one of the Royal Society of Chemistry 175 Faces of Chemistry.[5]

Early life and education

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Schofield studied materials science at Imperial College London[6] where she completed a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree followed by PhD[7] under the supervision of Mary Ryan in 2006.[6] She specialised in synchrotron science, working on dealloying.[8]

Career

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After graduating, Schofield joined the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. Here she investigated ways to characterise radioactive ground water waste.[6] She moved to the University of Kent as a postdoctoral researcher in 2009, where she worked with Alan Chadwick on sulphur in waterlogged wood.[9][10]

In 2012 Schofield joined the Mary Rose Trust.[11] In 2013 the ship drying began, and Schofield was responsible for developing a series of experiments with the Diamond Light Source and University of Kent.[9][12] Today she oversees the conservation of the hull and over 19,000 other artefacts.[13] Throughout her career at the Mary Rose, Schofield has been involved with the designers and exhibition staff.

Eleanor Schofield working on the Mary Rose ship

The hull of the Mary Rose was excavated from the sea in 1982, and has since been sprayed with a cold-water spray and polyethylene glycol to replace the cellular structure of the wood.[13][5] It is kept inside an environment that allows controlled air-drying.[13][14] Schofield continuously monitors the amount of sulphur and iron in the warship, working with Serena Corr at the University of Glasgow.[15][16] Sulphur is present on the seabed, and became incorporated into the hull of the warship whilst it was underwater.[17][18] Anaerobic bacteria react with sulphur in seawater, which can then produce iron sulfides by combining with iron corroded from fixtures and artefacts.[19] She also works with Rachel O'Reilly at the University of Birmingham as part of a Leverhulme Trust grant that looks to develop polymers that can remove iron ions from the wood, which could prevent these damaging acids from forming.[20][21] To do this, Corr, O'Reilly and Schofield use core magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles that are embedded them into a thermoresponsive polymer. The treatment can be applied as a liquid, directed to particular areas of the wood using external magnetic fields.[22][23] They can then be set as a gel and peeled from the surface.[20] She studied twelve of Henry VIII of England's iron cannonballs using synchrotron X‐ray powder diffraction.[24]

She studied the composition of the cannonballs in an effort to better preserve them.[25][26] The cannonballs were produced in bulk, but subjected to different conservation methods and environments.[27] When chlorine from salt gets inside the archaeological iron it becomes corrosive.[25][28] The Mary Rose Trust keeps 900 of the cannonballs preserved in high pH water to slows down corrosion. She works with University College London and the National Physical Laboratory to study other pollutants in artefacts.[6] She hopes that understanding the corrosion of iron will inform future conservation.[29]

She was selected as one of the Royal Society of Chemistry 175 Faces of Chemistry in 2015.[5] In 2016, 471 years after the Mary Rose sank, Schofield was involved with the reopening of the ship to the public.[30][31] In 2016 she delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society of Chemistry public lecture on Conserving a Tudor Collection.[32] She was a speaker at the 2017 New Scientist Live.[33] Schofield is an honorary Professor at the University of Kent.[34][35]

References

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  1. ^ a b Eleanor Schofield publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Eleanor SCHOFIELD". Companies House. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  3. ^ Eleanor Schofield publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. ^ Eleanor Schofield publications from Europe PubMed Central
  5. ^ a b c "Dr Eleanor Schofield". rsc.org. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  6. ^ a b c d "Lab Profile: Dr Eleanor Schofield". Materials Today. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  7. ^ Schofield, Eleanor Josephine (2006). Formation and characterisation of nanoporous materials. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). Imperial College London (University of London). OCLC 500283573. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.429052.
  8. ^ Schofield, Eleanor J.; Ingham, Bridget; Turnbull, Alan; Toney, Michael F.; Ryan, Mary P. (2008). "Strain development in nanoporous metallic foils formed by dealloying". Applied Physics Letters. 92 (4): 043118. Bibcode:2008ApPhL..92d3118S. doi:10.1063/1.2838351. ISSN 0003-6951.
  9. ^ a b kem39 (27 November 2018). "Meet our newest Honorary Professor: Dr. Eleanor Schofield". School of Physical Sciences at Kent Blog. Retrieved 6 December 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ "Mary Rose : Protecting our Heritage through Chemistry". impact.ref.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  11. ^ "Executive team". The Mary Rose. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  12. ^ "High-tech conservation solutions for old warship". phys.org. 18 February 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  13. ^ a b c Khai Trung Le (24 September 2018). "Science innovation at the Mary Rose". iom3.org. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  14. ^ Richardson, Nigel (20 July 2016). "The best view of the Mary Rose in 471 years". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  15. ^ Dominic Joyeux; Dr Eleanor Schofield; Christopher Dobbs (March 2018). "Raising and conserving the Mary Rose". Ingenia. No. 74.
  16. ^ "Mary Rose hull preserved using magnetic nanotech". The Engineer. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  17. ^ Simon M. Clabby (13 October 2014). "What Has Science Got to Do With the Mary Rose?". HuffPost UK. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  18. ^ Warren, Matthew (14 October 2013). "Synchrotrons, ships and sulphur: Using a particle accelerator to help conserve the Mary Rose". Bang! Science Magazine. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  19. ^ Simms, Chris (21 July 2016). "The long scientific voyage of Tudor warship the Mary Rose". New Scientist. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  20. ^ a b Rachel K. O’Reilly (13 September 2018). "Using nanotechnology to save a national icon". birmingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  21. ^ Schofield, Eleanor J.; Sarangi, Ritimukta; Mehta, Apurva; Jones, A. Mark; Mosselmans, Fred J.W.; Chadwick, Alan V. (1 July 2011). "Nanoparticle de-acidification of the Mary Rose". Materials Today. 14 (7–8): 354–358. doi:10.1016/S1369-7021(11)70166-3. ISSN 1369-7021.
  22. ^ "Bringing salvaged wooden ships and artifacts back to life with 'smart' nanotech". American Chemical Society. 21 August 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  23. ^ Denise Chow (10 September 2018). "How tiny magnets could save a historic warship that once sailed for King Henry VIII". NBC News. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  24. ^ Simon, Hayley; Cibin, Giannantonio; Robbins, Phil; Day, Sarah; Tang, Chiu; Freestone, Ian; Schofield, Eleanor (2018). "A Synchrotron-Based Study of the Mary Rose Iron Cannonballs". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57 (25): 7390–7395. doi:10.1002/anie.201713120. ISSN 1521-3773. PMC 6032935. PMID 29517157.
  25. ^ a b Adrian Murphy (27 September 2018). "Conservation and collection care: Using X-rays to preserve the Mary Rose Museum's Cannonballs". Museums + Heritage Advisor. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  26. ^ "Going ballistic! Science meets conservation on The Mary Rose". UCL News. 9 March 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  27. ^ "Determining the impact of post-conservation corrosion". Diamond Light Source. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  28. ^ "The Mary-Rose and the Dynamic Duo – Joint Meeting of the Institute of Corrosion, London Branch with the SCI London Group". INSTITUTE OF CORROSION. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  29. ^ "The Mary Rose: Fighting Corrosion on a Fighting Ship – Event Preview". soci.org. 3 September 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  30. ^ "Full view of Mary Rose warship revealed". BBC News. 19 July 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  31. ^ "Henry VIII's flagship back on public view in Portsmouth". Apollo Magazine. 19 July 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  32. ^ Royal Society Of Chemistry, Conserving a Tudor Collection – Public Lecture, retrieved 6 December 2018
  33. ^ Knapton, Sarah (1 October 2017). "Wreck of Mary Rose has started to collapse onto itself, warn conservators". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  34. ^ "Professor Eleanor Schofield". imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  35. ^ "Professor Eleanor Schofield". kent.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
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