Eleanor Schofield Explained

Eleanor Schofied
Birth Name:Eleanor Josephine Schofield
Doctoral Advisor:Mary Ryan
Thesis Title:Formation and characterisation of nanoporous materials
Thesis Year:2006
Thesis Url:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429052
Alma Mater:Imperial College London (MEng, PhD)
Known For:Conservation work
Fields:Materials science
Birth Date:26 March 1980

Eleanor Josephine Schofield (born 26 March 1980[1]) is the Head of Conservation & Collections Care at the Mary Rose Trust. She is an honorary Professor at the University of Kent. In 2015 she was selected as one of the Royal Society of Chemistry 175 Faces of Chemistry.

Early life and education

Schofield studied materials science at Imperial College London[2] where she completed a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree followed by PhD[3] under the supervision of Mary Ryan in 2006. She specialised in synchrotron science, working on dealloying.[4]

Career

After graduating, Schofield joined the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. Here she investigated ways to characterise radioactive ground water waste. She moved to the University of Kent as a postdoctoral researcher in 2009, where she worked with Alan Chadwick on sulphur in waterlogged wood.[5] [6]

In 2012 Schofield joined the Mary Rose Trust.[7] In 2013 the ship drying began, and Schofield was responsible for developing a series of experiments with the Diamond Light Source and University of Kent.[8] Today she oversees the conservation of the hull and over 19,000 other artefacts.[9] Throughout her career at the Mary Rose, Schofield has been involved with the designers and exhibition staff.The hull of the Mary Rose was excavated from the sea in 1982, and has since been sprayed with a cold-water spray and polyethylene glycol to replace the cellular structure of the wood.[10] It is kept inside an environment that allows controlled air-drying.[11] Schofield continuously monitors the amount of sulphur and iron in the warship, working with Serena Corr at the University of Glasgow.[12] [13] Sulphur is present on the seabed, and became incorporated into the hull of the warship whilst it was underwater.[14] [15] Anaerobic bacteria react with sulphur in seawater, which can then produce iron sulfides by combining with iron corroded from fixtures and artefacts.[16] She also works with Rachel O'Reilly at the University of Birmingham as part of a Leverhulme Trust grant that looks to develop polymers that can remove iron ions from the wood, which could prevent these damaging acids from forming.[17] [18] To do this, Corr, O'Reilly and Schofield use core magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles that are embedded them into a thermoresponsive polymer. The treatment can be applied as a liquid, directed to particular areas of the wood using external magnetic fields.[19] [20] They can then be set as a gel and peeled from the surface. She studied twelve of Henry VIII of England's iron cannonballs using synchrotron X‐ray powder diffraction.[21]

She studied the composition of the cannonballs in an effort to better preserve them.[22] [23] The cannonballs were produced in bulk, but subjected to different conservation methods and environments.[24] When chlorine from salt gets inside the archaeological iron it becomes corrosive.[25] The Mary Rose Trust keeps 900 of the cannonballs preserved in high pH water to slows down corrosion. She works with University College London and the National Physical Laboratory to study other pollutants in artefacts. She hopes that understanding the corrosion of iron will inform future conservation.[26]

She was selected as one of the Royal Society of Chemistry 175 Faces of Chemistry in 2015. In 2016, 471 years after the Mary Rose sank, Schofield was involved with the reopening of the ship to the public.[27] [28] In 2016 she delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society of Chemistry public lecture on Conserving a Tudor Collection. She was a speaker at the 2017 New Scientist Live.[29] Schofield is an honorary Professor at the University of Kent.[30] [31]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Eleanor SCHOFIELD. Companies House. 2020-01-25.
  2. Web site: Lab Profile: Dr Eleanor Schofield. Materials Today. 2018-12-06.
  3. PhD. Imperial College London (University of London). Formation and characterisation of nanoporous materials. Eleanor Josephine. Schofield. 2006. . jisc.ac.uk. 500283573.
  4. Schofield. Eleanor J.. Ingham. Bridget. Turnbull. Alan. Toney. Michael F.. Ryan. Mary P.. Strain development in nanoporous metallic foils formed by dealloying. Applied Physics Letters. 92. 4. 2008. 043118. 0003-6951. 10.1063/1.2838351. 2008ApPhL..92d3118S.
  5. Web site: Meet our newest Honorary Professor: Dr. Eleanor Schofield. en-US. 2018-12-06. 27 November 2018. kem39. School of Physical Sciences at Kent Blog.
  6. Web site: Mary Rose : Protecting our Heritage through Chemistry. impact.ref.ac.uk. 2018-12-06.
  7. Web site: Executive team. The Mary Rose. 2018-12-06.
  8. Web site: High-tech conservation solutions for old warship. phys.org. en-us. 2018-12-06. February 18, 2008.
  9. Web site: Science innovation at the Mary Rose. 24 September 2018. Khai Trung Le. iom3.org. 2018-12-06.
  10. Web site: Dr Eleanor Schofield. rsc.org. 2018-12-06. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150416010318/http://www.rsc.org/diversity/175-faces/all-faces/dr-eleanor-schofield/. 2015-04-16.
  11. Web site: The best view of the Mary Rose in 471 years. 20 July 2016. Nigel Richardson. Richardson. Nigel. The Telegraph. en-GB. 2018-12-06.
  12. Dominic Joyeux. Dr Eleanor Schofield. Christopher Dobbs. March 2018. Raising and conserving the Mary Rose. Ingenia. 74.
  13. Web site: Mary Rose hull preserved using magnetic nanotech. 2018-08-22. The Engineer. en-UK. 2018-12-06.
  14. Web site: What Has Science Got to Do With the Mary Rose?. 2014-10-13. HuffPost UK. en. 2018-12-06. Simon M. Clabby.
  15. Web site: Synchrotrons, ships and sulphur: Using a particle accelerator to help conserve the Mary Rose. Warren. Matthew. 2013-10-14. Bang! Science Magazine. en-US. 2018-12-06.
  16. Web site: The long scientific voyage of Tudor warship the Mary Rose. Simms. Chris. New Scientist. en-US. 2018-12-06. 21 July 2016.
  17. Web site: Using nanotechnology to save a national icon. birmingham.ac.uk. 2018-12-06. 13 September 2018. Rachel K. O’Reilly.
  18. 2011-07-01. Nanoparticle de-acidification of the Mary Rose. Materials Today. en. 14. 7–8. 354–358. 10.1016/S1369-7021(11)70166-3. 1369-7021. Schofield. Eleanor J.. Sarangi. Ritimukta. Mehta. Apurva. Jones. A. Mark. Mosselmans. Fred J.W.. Chadwick. Alan V.. free.
  19. Web site: Bringing salvaged wooden ships and artifacts back to life with 'smart' nanotech. American Chemical Society. en. 2018-12-06. August 21, 2018.
  20. Web site: How tiny magnets could save a historic warship that once sailed for King Henry VIII. NBC News. en. 2018-12-06. September 10, 2018. Denise Chow.
  21. Simon. Hayley. Cibin. Giannantonio. Robbins. Phil. Day. Sarah. Tang. Chiu. Freestone. Ian. Schofield. Eleanor. 2018. A Synchrotron-Based Study of the Mary Rose Iron Cannonballs. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. en. 57. 25. 7390–7395. 10.1002/anie.201713120. 1521-3773. 6032935. 29517157.
  22. Web site: Conservation and collection care: Using X-rays to preserve the Mary Rose Museum's Cannonballs. Museums + Heritage Advisor. en-GB. 2018-12-06. 27 September 2018. Adrian Murphy.
  23. Web site: Going ballistic! Science meets conservation on The Mary Rose. 2018-03-09. UCL News. en. 2018-12-06.
  24. Web site: Determining the impact of post-conservation corrosion. Diamond Light Source. en. 2018-12-06.
  25. Web site: The Mary-Rose and the Dynamic Duo – Joint Meeting of the Institute of Corrosion, London Branch with the SCI London Group. INSTITUTE OF CORROSION. 7 November 2018. en-GB. 2018-12-06.
  26. Web site: The Mary Rose: Fighting Corrosion on a Fighting Ship – Event Preview. soci.org. 2018-12-06. 3 September 2018.
  27. News: Full view of Mary Rose warship revealed. 2016-07-19. BBC News. 2018-12-06. en-GB.
  28. Web site: Henry VIII's flagship back on public view in Portsmouth. 2016-07-19. Apollo Magazine. en-US. 2018-12-06.
  29. News: Wreck of Mary Rose has started to collapse onto itself, warn conservators. Knapton. Sarah. 2017-10-01. The Telegraph. 2018-12-06. en-GB. 0307-1235.
  30. Web site: Professor Eleanor Schofield. imperial.ac.uk. 2018-12-06.
  31. Web site: Professor Eleanor Schofield. kent.ac.uk. 2018-12-06.

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