Luís Filipe da Silva Soares is a researcher at the Instituto de História da Arte (IHA), Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH-UNL) and works currently at the Monte da Lua-Parques de Sintra, S.A. as the responsible for the Preventive Conservation area of the Palácio da Pena, Chalet da Condessa and Palácio de Monserrate. He completed his Ph.D. thesis in History of Art - specialization in Artistic Heritage and Museology (FCSH-UNL, 2016). He has a course in Restoration of Architectural Heritage (Mural Painting) from the Escola Profissional de Recuperação do Património Edificado de Sintra (1997), he is graduated in Conservation and Restoration – easel Painting and polychrome Sculpture (Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, 2004), and completed a Master degree in Museology (FCSH-UNL, 2010). Luís Soares worked with several conservation and restoration companies between 1977 and 2007, participating in interventions on public, religious and private cultural heritage. Between 2007 and 2009 he collaborated with the Conservation and Restoration and Educational Departments of Museu Nacional de Etnologia (National Museum of Ethnology). Between 2008 and 2016 he collaborated with Iterartis - Services for Museums and Transport of Artworks, Ltd., packing and transporting works of art, and assembling exhibitions at several studios, galleries, art centres, museums and palaces in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Germany and the UK. Between 2010 and 2012 he was a research fellow at the Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, in the project «Sources for the History of Art Museums in Portugal».