Dr Nicholas Eastaugh originally trained as a physicist before going on to study conservation and art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where he completed a PhD in scientific analysis and documentary research of historical pigments in 1988. Since 1989 he has been a consultant in the scientific and art technological study of paint and paintings. A frequent lecturer, he was an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford 2003-2017. He has also been an expert witness in a number of high-profile art authenticity cases. In 1999 he co-founded the Pigmentum Project, an interdisciplinary research group developing comprehensive high-quality documentary and analytical data on historical pigments and other artists’ materials. This led to the publication of the Pigment Compendium in 2004, which quickly became a standard reference text in the field. Dr Eastaugh founded Art Analysis & Research in 2009, leaving recently to start a new venture, Vasarik Ltd., to pursue his interests in the intersection of material art and art history, and the application of new technologies such as AI to these.