Aviva Ruth Burnstock (born 1 May 1959) is head of the Department of Art Conservation & Technology at the Courtauld Institute, London.
Burnstock is a graduate of the University of Sussex (BSc.
Neurobiology 1981) and took her PhD at the Courtauld Institute.Burnstock was one of the team that confirmed that The Procuress in the Courtauld's collection, a version of a 1622 work by Dirck van Baburen now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was a modern forgery by Han van Meegeren.