Dr Elizabeth Carter is the Manager of the Sydney Analytical Vibrational Spectroscopy Facility. Liz is responsible for all day-to-day management and operating activities. She also provides advice, research support and assistance to researchers, students and other technical staff working in the facility. She has a passion for researching objects and materials of cultural heritage significance to reveal their hidden mysteries and secrets of the artisans who made them. Her research has a strong focus on the importance of sampling, optimisation of sampling procedures and development of protocols to enable correlative and complementary imaging using a suite of spectroscopic techniques.