Archaeologist with a PhD developed through a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action research fellowship at the Institute of Heritage Sciences, an institute of the Spanish National Research Council (Incipit – CSIC). Her research was developed within the framework of a European project on Critical Heritage Studies with training at different European universities (University College London, University of Gothenburg, University of Amsterdam, among others). ). This work focused on the aspects of heritage policies related to the traumatic past as well as uncovering how the style of bureaucracy and the management of the last dictatorship, related to the disappearance of persons and (often unidentified) dead bodies in São Paulo, Brazil, persists until today (the democratic period). Márcia Hattori’s background includes a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of São Paulo – USP (2009), an MPhil in Archaeology from the University of São Paulo – USP (2015) and a Masters in Forensic Anthropology applied to Human Rights in Spain (2019). During her Master ´s she investigated the role of heritage policies and archaeology in conflict zones related to local communities, environmental licensing and historical cemeteries in Brazil. Her complementary training involved different courses related to Forensic Anthropology, Quantitative and Qualitative research, Archives, Heritage in Conflict Areas, methodologies of community participation, Oral History and Ethnography. From 2007 to 2013, she worked on archaeology projects, coordinating scientific dissemination projects in different Brazilian municipalities and developing collaborative projects and workshops with school teachers and community agents. From 2008 to 2012, she worked on the creation of an historical and archaeological museum, based on the development of work with different communities in the municipality of Lins, in the state of São Paulo. These communities included: Kaingang and Terena indigenous groups, Greek and Japanese immigrant communities and railway workers’ association, as well as several others. In the years from 2014 to 2017, she was responsible for the coordination of the preliminary investigation for the searches of ‘disappeared people’ in the city of São Paulo. This Forensic Anthropological work involved researching archives, interviewing relatives and witnesses, collecting antemortem data, working with quantitative analysis and producing technical reports. Ms. Hattori has also carried out fieldwork on the processes of memorialization related to the internal conflict in Peru and forensic cases in Brazil, along with similar fieldwork in Portugal, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Guinea Bissau. In Spain, she has been working on projects related to the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship.