Christina Nguyen

Christina D. Nguyen (she/her) is a researcher and librarian specializing in conservation science, digital scholarship, and cultural heritage preservation. Her doctoral work involves developing open-access tools for parchment condition assessment, and investigates novel collagen stabilization techniques to support archival preservation, with facilities and collaborators at the Faculty of Dentistry. Her work bridges material science with library and archival practice, providing evidence-based solutions for preservation, conservation, and restoration professionals.

She has published and presented internationally on digital cultural heritage, computational text analysis, and conservation technologies. With experience in special collections cataloguing, metadata creation, and digital infrastructure development, she is dedicated to advancing open science and global conservation efforts. She is also an active member of NASIG, the Tolkien Society, and the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, and has received multiple grants for her research and outreach.