Mathilda L. Coutinho (MLC) is a junior researcher at the HERCULES Laboratory, Universidade de Évora (Portugal) and member of the Associate Laboratory IN2PAST. She graduated in Conservation and Restoration in 2006, completing her PhD in 2015, in Conservation Sciences at FCT (Universidade NOVA Lisboa) entitled BIOLOGICAL COLONIZATION ON MAJOLICA GLAZED TILES: BIODETERIORATION, BIORECEPTIVITY AND MITIGATION STRATEGIES. The thesis explored a major threat to the preservation of outdoors glazed tile heritage - biodeterioration - in a holistic approach combining field studies with laboratory experiments. MLC was awarded the best PhD thesis prize by the SOS Azulejo Foundation due to the ground-breaking subject, scientific quality and contribution of the thesis for the preservation of glazed tiles. During 2013-2015 MLC was fellow (PTDC/EPHPAT/3579/2012) in a multidisciplinary project in the field of technical art history entitled The Stained Glass collection of King Ferdinand II of Portugal - Assembling the puzzle. After completing her PhD, she obtained a postdoctoral fellowship to work at VICARTE Research Unit (2015-2017). Since 2019, she is a postdoctoral researcher at HERCULES Laboratory, part of a competitive individual 6-year contract awarded by FCT (CEECIND/00349/2017) with the project "PROGnostic: PRedictive mOdels for the control of lichen Growth on built heritage". Her two main research lines are biodeterioration and technical art history of ceramic heritage. Alongside the main research line on ceramic biodeterioration, she has collaborated with other researchers, namely in 4-MUF-NAG biomass determination, study of natural biocides for controlling microbial colonization on cultural heritage and archaeometry studies. As to the technical art history of ceramic heritage, her work has focused on applying analytical methods to enhance the understanding of materials, production techniques, and deterioration processes. MLC is an experienced user of the following tools useful for the analytical characterization of inorganic historical materials (glass; ceramic; stone, mortars): X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and HSI (Hyperspectral Imaging). MLC was involved in two international projects to Training and Mobility Programs to Access Research Infrastructures, in two projects concerning historical ceramic pigments at the Synchrotron ESRF Facility in BM25- Spline. MLC has lectured at the DCR/FCT-UNL in the courses: Diagnostic and conservation of glass and ceramics; History of Art technology and materials: ceramic module; and Conservation and restoration of glass and ceramic. She has supervised two MSc thesis one CR in DCR/FCTUNL) and another ARCHMAT ERASMUS MUNDUS JOINT MASTER (EMJM) and several curricular projects. Is part of the ADELE-RS international project on virtualization in professional training in the CR Field. She has been invited to lecture about biodeterioration of ceramics in one national "Conservação e restauro de azulejo" and two international courses "International Course of Ceramic Materials in Building Heritage: Conservation Problems and Intervention" and the "HERACLES Fall School". She has been invited to disseminate her scientific work for general public by Museu da Fábrica de Loiça de Sacavém, Fundação D. Luis, Museu de Évora and Universidade de Évora. MLC (Scopus h-index 9) track record comprises 24 articles published in SCI journals (10 as first author), conference proceedings, book chapters and communications in scientific meetings. All publications sum 329 citations, according to Scopus. She has peer-reviewed scientific papers of SCI journals (Int Biodeterior Biodegradation, Appl. Phys. A, Conserv. Patrim., Sustain. Cities Soc., J Raman Spectrosc., Geosciences, J. King Saud Univ. Sci.). Currently, MLC was a guest editor of two special issues and is Associate Editor of peer-reviewed scientific journal Conservar Património (indexed in WoS and Scopus).