On Tuesday, 28 October 2025, we will host our colleague Prof. Dr. Abdelrazek Elnaggar, a specialist in Heritage Sciences, who has been based at the University of Ljubljana since 2024. The lecture entitled The UNESCO Campaign to Save the Nubian Monuments in Egypt: Moving the Immovable will be presented at 5 pm in lecture room Maestral 3 atUP FHŠ and will be held in English.

About the lecturer:

Prof. Dr. Abdelrazek Elnaggar is Professor of Heritage Sciences and Scientific Advisor at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, and since 2024 he has been a guest lecturer in the Cultural Heritage Programme at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska.

He began his scientific career in Egypt: in 2000, he graduated in conservation from the Faculty of Archaeology at Cairo University, Fayoum Branch. He continued his studies in the UK at King’s College London and completed a one-year postgraduate course on Comparative studies of conservation cleaning techniques in relation to laser cleaning. From 2002 to 2006, he completed his master’s degree at the Faculty of Archaeology at Cairo University, graduating with a thesis “Experimental study on the treatment of biodeterioration of Egyptian mummies”. In 2007, he enrolled in a doctoral program at Cairo University. As part of this program, he spent three years (2008-2012) in London as a visiting scholar at University College London (UCL), the City and Guilds of London Art School, and Imperial College. He completed his research with a dissertation entitled “Laser applications in the analysis and cleaning of museum artifacts”.