Saltwiki:About

In recent decades, extensive knowledge has been acquired, particularly through supported projects of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU), which is only partially reflected in the literature. From this starting position, the idea of creating this technical Wiki was developed in a workshop of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (Federal Environmental Foundation) in February 2008, which was attended by experts in conservation sciences from Denmark, England, Switzerland and Germany. The experts decided to bring into being a modern platform for knowledge management on the Internet that would offer simple and rapid access to knowledge from the widest range of technical disciplines on the maintenance of cultural assets endangered by salts.

SaltWiki is based on the scientific skills of the research association which comprises renowned scientists from academia, research institutes, state offices for the protection of historical monuments, companies, etc.

Current partners in the research association are:

• Dr. Michael Auras, Institut für Steinkonservierung e.V., Mainz
• Dr. Paul Bellendorf, Institut für Silikatforschung, Wertheim
• Dr. Christine Bläuer, CSC Sàrl, Fribourg
• Dr. Stefan Brüggerhoff, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
• Dipl.-Ing. Anja Diekamp, Institut für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Universität Innsbruck
• Prof. Dr. Gabriele Grassegger, Hochschule für Technik (HFT) Stuttgart, Lehrstuhl für Baustoffkunde und Bauchemie
• Prof. Dr. John Grunewald, TU Dresden, Institut für Bauklimatik
• Prof. Dr. Adrian Heritage, Fachhochschule Köln, Fachbereich Restaurierung
• Dr. Herbert Juling, Amtliche Materialprüfungsanstalt (MPA) der Freien Hansestadt Bremen
• Dr. Poul Klenz Larsen, Dänisches Nationalmuseum, Kopenhagen
• Prof. Dr. Steffen Laue, Fachhochschule Potsdam, Studiengang Restaurierung
• Prof. Dipl.-Rest. Roland Lenz, Staatl. Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Studiengang Konservierung und Restaurierung
• Dr. Hans-Hermann Neumann, Remmers Baustofftechnik, Löningen
• Dr. Andreas Nicolai, TU Dresden, Institut für Bauklimatik
• Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Plagge, TU Dresden, Institut für Bauklimatik
• Prof. Dr. Nicole Riedl, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen, Hildesheim
• Prof. Dr. Hannelore Römich, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
• Dr. Alison Sawdy-Heritage, ICCROM Rome, Italy
• Dr. Hans-Jürgen Schwarz, Ri-Con, Hannover
• Dipl.-Ing. Jens Siebert, Ingenieurlabor, Syke
• Prof. Dr. Heiner Siedel, TU Dresden, Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen, Institut für Geotechnik
• Prof. Dr. Stefan Simon, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Rathgen-Forschungslabor
• Dr. Michael Steiger, Universität Hamburg, Institut für Anorganische und Angewandte Chemie
• Dr. Eberhard Wendler, Fachlabor für Konservierungsfragen, München
  

If you are interested in joining the research association, whether as a single person or an institute, you are very welcome to do so.

The project is supported by the

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, (engl.:German Research Foundation), a research funding organization, for more information click here

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, Osnabrück; one of Europe's largest foundations to promote innovative and exemplary environmental projects, for more information click here