Academic Career and Research Areas
Nadia Thalguter is a research associate at the Technical University of Munich and has been working at the Professorship of Conservation of Architectural Surfaces since January 2026. She is pursuing her doctorate in the research project on the Magdalen Chapel and worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Conservation-Restoration, Art Technology and Conservation Science from 2019 to 2025. Her work combines conservation-restoration practice with material-oriented analysis in research and teaching, with a special focus on wall paintings and architectural surfaces.
She studied Preventive Conservation and the Conservation and Restoration of Wall Paintings and Architectural Surfaces at HAWK Hildesheim | Holzminden | Göttingen. She gained additional practical and scientific experience at the Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege in Munich, the Hornemann Institute in Hildesheim, and the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, among others. She is involved in teaching, particularly on historical techniques, and is a member of the Verband der Restaurator:innen and ICOMOS Germany, where she is active as deputy spokesperson for the Conservation-Restoration Working Group. In addition, she works in the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Mural Painting in the Working Group Glossary and, since working on EwaGlos, has been committed to the importance of technically precise terminology and glossaries.