Sibylla was appointed lecturer in wall painting conservation at The Courtauld in 2015. During the previous decade, she supervised major field programmes for The Courtauld at Nagaur (India) and Valletta (Malta), and held a part-time appointment as visiting lecturer. In addition to lecturing, she supervises and teaches on international projects in Bhutan, China, Cyprus, Georgia, and for the Leon Levy Foundation Centre for Conservation Studies at Nagaur (India).

Following an MA in History of Art at Edinburgh University, she received her Courtauld MA in Conservation of Wall Painting in 2004, and took up a Graduate Internship in Field Projects at the Getty Conservation Institute. Sibylla has served on the Department’s International Advisory Board since 2011 and is a Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation.

Sibylla is in the final stages of completing her PhD in Conservation on assessing methods for visualising consolidants in painted lime plaster. This research investigates field and laboratory methods for determining the distribution of organic and inorganic consolidants in painted lime plaster. Other research interests lie in environmental causes of deterioration and passive approaches to their amelioration, and imaging techniques.

• Consolidation of decohesive paint layer and plasters
• Environmental causes of deterioration and passive approaches to their mitigation
• Imaging techniques for conservation
• Remedial approaches to wall painting conservation

• International Institute for Conservation 

• ICON (Institute of Conservation) 

• ICOM (International  Council of Museums—Committee for Conservation)

• MA in Conservation of Wall Painting