Prof. Dr. Stefan Simon

Vita

Prof. Dr Stefan Simon has been Director of the Rathgen Research Laboratory at the Berlin State Museums since 2005. As Founding Director of the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) at Yale, Stefan Simon has prioritised the development of sustainable conservation strategies, driven by the debate on climate change and the ‘Green Museum’. In 2024–25, Simon was awarded a Distinguished Research Chair in Arts and Social Sciences by the US Department of State at Carleton University in Ottawa as part of the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Programme. Stefan Simon has been a member of the Executive Board of ICOM Germany since December 2025 and President of the International ICOM Committee on Security since March 2026.