Clara Moura Soares has a degree in Art History (1996) from the School of Arts and Humanities (University of Lisbon) and a Master in Arts, Heritage and Theory of Restoration (1999) from the same institution, where she took her PhD degree seven years later (2006). She is Assistant Professor with Aggregation at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon and is integrated researcher of the ARTIS - Art History Institute of the same University. In this research unit she is principal investigator of the research group Patrimonium - Heritage Sciences and Art Markets. She is co-coordinator of the Orion project - Art Collections and Collectors in Portugal and is part of the research team of the following project: The Marbles of the Anticlinal in Alentejo - 2.000 Years of Memory and Heritage (FEDER, 2019-2021). She was coordinator of Eneias - The collection of painting at the Portugal National Library: from de saving of conventual artistic heritage during the Liberal Revolution to an integrated study of conservation and dissemination PTDC/HIS-HEC/113226/2009 (2011-2014), research project funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. She has supervised master's and doctoral theses, even as post-doctoral research-projects in various fields of heritage science, including its management, history of art markets, collecting, inventory, history and theory of restoration. She has various books , book chapters and articles published on the same subjects. She is the deputy director and general editor of the electronic journal ARTis ON (http://artison.letras.ulisboa.pt/index.php/ao). It is a scientific journal with peer review and published in open access with important indexing ( DOAJ, ERIH PLUS, CROSSREF, LATINDEX, CAPES, DRJI, MIAR, EBSCO and LatinREV).