Professor Erma Hermens is Director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute for Painting Conservation at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. She has held professorships at the University of Glasgow and at the Rijksmuseum and University of Amsterdam. She brings research teams together comprising (technical) art historians, conservators and scientists, working closely with Fitzwilliam Museum curators and other Cambridge University Departments to train students in conservation and restoration of paintings from National and International collections. As part of our regular policy, TAS Cambridge has recently sponsored three students at The Hamilton Kerr Institute.