Seka Seneviratne

Seka Binaramali Seneviratne is a PhD candidate at the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation at the University of Melbourne, where she is building her PhD research project based on ‘Biodeterioration Methodologies and Their Effect on Painting Surfaces in the Asia Pacific Region’. Her research focuses on understanding the positive and challenging effects of microbial networks in heritage and cultural materials conservation. She worked with the Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Milan, Italy to study microbiology in cultural heritage as a visiting PhD student. She graduated from the Department of Chemistry, the University of Bologna, Italy in 2019 with a master’s degree in science for Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Heritage. Her interest lies in the field of analytical chemistry and microbiology in cultural heritage.