Institute: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Country: United States of America

Eliza Bazakas is originally from Berkeley, California and is currently studying Chemical-Biological Engineering with a minor in the History of Architecture, Art, and Design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been working in a Chemical Engineering lab at MIT researching extracellular charge in bacteria and their interactions with electrodes for the past year and a half. This summer she will carry out an internship at the Amsterdam Wax-Resin Project at the University of Amsterdam organized in collaboration with the Cultural Agency of the Netherlands. The internship is part of the masterclass, The Dutch Method Unfolded. Eliza will analyze several samples of wax-resin adhesive used for lining paintings in collections worldwide. The goal of the research is to investigate the composition of the adhesive and explore the change in recipe according to geographical location and time.