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Authors and co-authors 345 paper conservator at the Leopold Museum, Vienna. Since 2012, she is paper conservator at the Institute of Conservation, Austrian National Library. Contact: Junko Sonderegger, Institute of Conservation, Austrian National Library, Josef- splatz 1, 1015 Vienna, Austria T: +43 1 53410-347. E: junko.sonderegger@onb.ac.at Katharina Uhlir Katharina Uhlir studied chemistry at the University of Vienna. She received her PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Scientific investigations on ancient glasses of Ephe- sos using µ-XRF and SEM/EDX), where she also was assistant professor. Since 2004, she works as scientific assistant at the Conservation Science Department of the Kunsthis- torisches Museum Vienna (KHM), discontinued from 2008–2013 from the activity of a project staff for an Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project (Project no. L430-N19) leading to the implementation of the PART II µ-XRF instrument at the Conservation Science Department of the KHM. Since 2011, she is responsible for the XRF investigations at the KHM. Contact: Dr. Katharina Uhlir, Conservation Science Department, Kunsthistorisches Mu- seum Wien, Burgring 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria T: +43 1 52524 5705. E: katharina.uhlir@khm.at Jiří Vnouček After completing studies in conservation in Prague, Jiří Vnouček studied as intern with Christopher Clarkson at the West Dean College, England. In 2010, he received a Master degree in Conservation Science from the School of Conservation of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark. Jiří Vnouček was head of the Conservation depart- ment at the National Library in Prague for 12 years. Since 2005, he is employed as conser- vator at the Department of Preservation of The Royal Library, Copenhagen. He specialized in conservation of parchment, participated in the EU project IDAP (Improved Damage Analyses of Parchment) and several other research projects in the field of the conservation of parchment manuscripts. His research includes experimental parchment making and production of manuscripts. The theme of his PhD thesis is interdisciplinary research of the visual assessment of parchment in medieval manuscripts at the University of York (Centre of Medieval Studies and department of Archaeology). Contact: Dr. Jiří Vnouček, Conservation Department, The Royal Library Copenhagen, PO-box 2149, 1016 Copenhagen, Denmark. E: jiv@kb.dk Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0