Alice Plutino
I hold a PhD from the University of Milan (2021) and I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti), Milano.
Previously, I was an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Amsterdam (Department of Media Studies).
My research focuses on Color Science, Colorimetry, Image Enhancement, Digitization, and Archiving, with applications in Cultural Heritage.
I am the author of Tecniche di Restauro Cinematografico and several peer-reviewed publications.
I teach Digital Film Restoration and Digital Media Conservation at the University of Milano and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Roma).
I am also the founder of Imageese, through which I foster research and technology
for restoration, digitization, and material-based analysis. Additionally, I am vicepresident and treasurer of the Italian Color Group, deputy editor of the Color Culture and Science Journal,
and serve as coordinator of Division 1 and coordinator of Division 8 of NC CIE Italy
Email:
alice.plutino@unimi.it
alice.plutino@imageese.com
DREAM-Film project website:
Download my CV (updated on August 2025):
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
[W.W.]
2021
PHD IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
Field of research: Colorimetry, Image enhancement, Image Quality Metrics.
Thesis Title: Novel approaches in color measuring, rendering and controlling for cultural heritage
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Rizzi
2017
MASTER DEGREE
Department of Earth Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
Course: Scienze per la conservazione e la diagnostica dei beni culturali (Conservation Sciences, LM-11)
Final Mark: 110/110 magna cum laude
2015
BACHELOR DEGREE
Department of Earth Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
Course: Scienze e tecnologie per lo studio e la conservazione dei beni culturali e dei supporti dell'informazione (Conservation Sciences, L – 43)
Final Mark: 108/110
RESEARCH
MAR 2025 - Present
Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti - NABA, Milano (Italy)
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW
Project: P+ARTS, Partnership for Artistic Research in Technology and Sustainability
DEC 2024 - Present
Imageese, Milano (Italy)
FOUNDER
Creator of a platform dedicated to visual heritage, providing advanced tools and resources for color management, film digitization, and restoration.
SEPT 2023 - FEB 2025
Media Studies Department, University of Amsterdam (the Netherland)
MARIE CURIE POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW (MSCA-PF)
Project: Democratising REsearch and restoration of Audiovisual Media and Film (DREAM-Film): practices and methods to improve the accessibility to restoration and promote competency exchange
MAY 2021 – AUG 2023
Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW
Project: Frame-Q: a novel framework for video restoration and quality assessment
OCT 2017 – MAR 2021
Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
PHD IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
TEACHING
MAR 2019 – PRESENT
Department of Earth Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR and TUTOR
Adjunct Professor (2022, 2023, 2025) and tutor (2019, 2020 and 2021) of Movie Restoration
and Colorimetry and Color Management for Cultural Heritage for the master course program
in Conservation Sciences, LM-11.
DEC 2020 – PRESENT
Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Roma (Italy)
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
Teaching Conservation of Electronic and Digital Media to first-year students,
History and Restoration of Color Film Processes to second-year students,
and Scientific Writing to third-year students
of the program Conservation and Management of the Audio-visual Heritage.
JAN 2022 – JUN 2025
Poliestetico, Milano (Italy)
TEACHER
Teaching Physiology of the senses (2023, 2024, 2025) and
Anatomy (2023, 2024) for the post-secondary education project
Progetto di istruzione e formazione tecnica superiore (IFTS).
FEB 2021 – MAR 2022
Fondazione Luigi Clerici, Milano (Italy)
TEACHER
Teaching Graphic communication for the post-secondary education project
Progetto di istruzione e formazione tecnica superiore (IFTS).
AUG 2018 – SEPT 2019
POLI.Design, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
TUTOR
Tutor of the Master course in “Color Design and Technology”, 3rd Edition.