Adrian Heritage M.A. DIPL. CONS (Courtauld) ACR, FIIC I was appointed Professor of Wall Paintings Conservation at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences (Technische Hochschule Köln) in March 2002. My primary teaching and research areas are conservation philosophy, conservation approaches for wall painting and Street Art, preventive conservation, and research into the deterioration processes of porous building materials. I have taken over 200 German and Polish students and young conservators to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in Poland to undertake conservation work in this place of memory (an ongoing annual project since 2003). I've been involved in numerous national and international research projects. Since 2023, as project leader for the DBU-funded project: "Preventive conservation, securing and preservation of the cycle of murals in the Emmaus Monastery in Prague" (2023-2025). In 2016, together with physicist Prof. Dr Birgit Kanngießer (Technical University Berlin) and archaeologist Prof. Dr Stephan G. Schmid (Humboldt University Berlin), we led the multidisciplinary Petra Painting Conservation Project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In addition, Adrian has undertaken extensive research into and publications on salt-reduction methodologies for wall paintings and stone. He is a contributing author of the SALZWIKI project and a project partner in the EU-fp6 project: DESALINATION, assessment of desalination mortars and poultices for historic masonry (2005 -2008). Before coming to Germany in 2002, I was formerly Head of Wall Paintings and then Senior Architectural Conservator at English Heritage. Together with Jeanne-Marie Teutonico, we formed part of John Fidler’s wider Building Conservation & Research Team at English Heritage, London. In 1999, I organised the ‘Conserving the Painted Past: developing approaches to wall paintings conservation’ conference at English Heritage and its publication. Adrian has experience in practical conservation and conservation management, and conservation research in the U.K. and Germany. His initial academic study was in Philosophy and Fine Art (University of Reading, U.K. 1981-1985). From 1991-1995 My postgraduate training in conservation at the Courtauld Institute of Art includes a Diploma in Wall Painting Conservation and M.A. in Painting Conservation (University of London), subsequently I worked as an Academic Researcher at the Courtauld Institute. In the mid-1990s, I researched the visualisation of dynamic deterioration processes at the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles. I am a professionally accredited wall paintings conservator (ACR), former PACR Accreditation Committee Chair (of ICON UK, then UKIC), and Board Member of ENCoRE and former Board Member of Blue Shield Germany.

My Mentoring Topics

• Conservation and restoration of Cultural Heritage