Jocelyn is an educator and conservation scientist – a chemist working for and on cultural heritage, to preserve, understand, and learn from it. She is a professor at the University of Delaware (USA) with a joint appointment in Art Conservation and Chemistry & Biochemistry. Her cross-disciplinary work bridges STEM with the humanities, researching objects from the human past, their making, and their degradation chemistry. Her lifelong affair with water is taking her research on material culture to waterlogged objects: she aims to understand the unique challenges they face using nondestructive methods, and to develop better preservation strategies, including when they need to be extracted.

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