Role
Dr Hill is an Academic Fellow (Independent Research Fellow) in Cultural Heritage and teaches Chemistry. Dr Hill is a researcher in the Cultural Heritage Research Peak and started his research group at Nottingham Trent University in 2022.
Career overview
- 2022– Academic Fellow, Nottingham Trent University
- 2021–22 Graduate Intern, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles
- 2021 Academic Fellow, Nottingham Trent University
- 2020–21 Associate Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
- 2019–21 Consultant Supervisor, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
- 2019–20 Teaching Fellow, History of Art Department, UCL, University of London
- 2016–18 Associate Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
- 2013–16 College Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
Education:
- 2016–19 MA Conservation of Wall Painting, Courtauld Institute of Art
- 2012–16 DPhil Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford
- 2008–12 MChem Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford
Visiting Positions:
- 2022–23 Visitor, Chemistry Department, University of Oxford
- 2021–22 Visiting Fellow, Nottingham Trent University
Research areas
Dr Hill's research interests lie in art conservation and conservation science. He has broad interests in material characterisation, intervention assessment, preventive conservation, and integrated approaches to conservation decision-making.
Current interests include the characterisation and conservation of historic plasters, evidence in conservation decision-making, wall painting technologies with tertiary supports, mitigation and monitoring of salt-related deterioration, the development of non-invasive x-ray diffraction techniques for cultural heritage, and wall painting technologies of East Asia.
Dr Hill's earlier work in chemistry include structure-property-composition relationships in framework materials and characterising structural distortions in perovskite analogues.
Dr Hill is open to supervision of postgraduate research towards an MPhil /PhD in conservation science. Further information may be obtained on the NTU Research Degrees website or by contacting Dr Hill directly.
External activity
Royal Society of Chemistry: Member of Analytical Methods Committee Expert Working Group on Heritage Science.
International Council of Museums: Member. ICOM-CC Murals, Stone, and Rock Art working group assistant coordinator (2020–23 and 2023–26)
Publications
Gaji, a Gypsum-Earth Plaster in the Wall Painting Technology of the Church of St. Demetrios of Thessaloniki, David Gareji, Kakheti, Georgia. M Sagaradze, J A Hill, S Mikaberidze, N Khuskivadze, M Kavsadze, S Rickerby, and L Shekede. Historic Mortars International Conference. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31472-8_21
Intervention vigilance in conservation: Lessons from the medical profession. J A Hill and I L Haeusler, In Transcending Boundaries: Integrated Approaches to Conservation. ICOM-CC 19th Triennial Conference Preprints, Beijing, 17–21 May 2021, ed. J. Bridgland. Paris: International Council of Museums (2021).
Understanding gaji, a gypsum-earth plaster in Georgian Wall Paintings. S Mikaberidze, M Sagaradze, N Khuskivadze, and J A Hill, In Proceedings of International Conference Davit Gareja Multidisciplinary Study and Development Strategy, Tbilisi (2020)
Inorganic co-crystal formation and thermal disproportionation in a dicyanometallate 'superperovskite', J A Hill, C A Murray, C C Tang, P M M Thygesen, A L Thompson, and A L Goodwin, Chem. Commun., 55, 5439–5442 (2019).
Hypophosphite hybrid perovskites: a platform for unconventional tilts and shifts, Y Wu, T Binford, J A Hill, S Shaker, J Wang, and A K Cheetham, Chem. Commun., 54, 3751–3754 (2018).
Incommensurate chirality density wave transition in a hybrid molecular framework, J A Hill, K E Christensen, and A L Goodwin, Phys. Rev. Lett., 119, 115501 (2017).
Large elastic recovery of zinc dicyanoaurate, C S Coates, M R Ryder, J A Hill, J-C Tan, and A L Goodwin, APL Mater., 5, 066107 (2017).
Mesoscale polarization by geometric frustration in columnar supramolecular crystals, C S Zehe, J A Hill, N P Funnell, K Kreger, K P. van der Zwan, A L Goodwin, H-W Schmidt, and J Senker, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56, 4432–4437 (2017).
Metal–organic nanosheets formed via defect-mediated transformation of a hafnium metal–organic framework, M J Cliffe, E Castillo-Martínez, Wu, J Lee, A C Forse, F C N Firth, P Z Moghadam, D Fairen-Jimenez, M W Gaultois, J A Hill, O V Magdysyuk, B Slater, A L Goodwin, and C P Grey, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 5397–5404 (2017).
Columnar shifts as symmetry-breaking degrees of freedom in molecular perovskites, H L B Böstrom, J A Hill, and A L Goodwin, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18, 31881–31894 (2016).
Guest-activated forbidden tilts in a molecular perovskite analogue, S G Duyker, J A Hill, C J Howard, and A L Goodwin, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 11121–11123 (2016).
Dicyanometallates as model extended frameworks, J A Hill, A L Thompson, and A L Goodwin, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 5886–5896 (2016).
Compositional dependence of anomalous thermal expansion in perovskite-like ABX3 formates, I E Collings, J A Hill, A B Cairns, R I Cooper, A L Thompson, J E Parker, C C Tang, and A L Goodwin, Dalton Trans., 45, 4169–4178 (2016).
Defect-dependent colossal negative thermal expansion in UiO-66(Hf) metal-organic framework, M J Cliffe, J A Hill, C A Murray, F-X Coudert, and A L Goodwin, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 17, 11586–11592 (2015).
Glass formation via structural fragmentation of a 2D coordination network, D Umeyama, N P Funnell, M J Cliffe, J A Hill, A L Goodwin, Y Hijikata, T Itakura, T Okubo, S Horike, and S Kitagawa, Chem. Commun., 51, 12728–12731 (2015).
Zero-strain reductive intercalation of a molecular framework, J A Hill, A B Cairns, J J K Lim, S J Cassidy, S J Clarke, and A L Goodwin, CrystEngComm, 17, 2925–2928 (2015).
Flexibility transition and guest-driven reconstruction in a ferroelastic metal–organic framework, S J Hunt, M J Cliffe, J A Hill, A B Cairns, N P Funnell and A L Goodwin, CrystEngComm, 17, 361–369 (2015).
Sustainbility
Conservation science contributes widely across the UN Sustainable Development goals including:
