Mariana Di Giacomo

Mariana Di Giacomo is the Natural History Conservator at the Yale Peabody Museum and Chair of the Shared Conservation Laboratory at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Prior to coming to Yale, she spent three years as a Conservation Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, where she did research on conservation of fossils and mounting media of microscope slides. She is involved in several organizations such as the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, the American Institute for Conservation, the Association for Materials and Methods in Paleontology, and APOYOnline. She is an advocate for the care and conservation of natural history collections, working with colleagues from around the world.

Ph.D. in Preservation Studies, University of Delaware

M.S in Zoology, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

B.S in Biology, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay