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Dr Mar Gaitán is a Margarita Salas post-doc fellow at the Universitat de València (Spain) and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM, Italy) where she currently works as full PhD researcher  developing a series of toolkits to  support sustainable development through the use and conservation of heritage collections. She had formerly graduated as an Art Historian and MA in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management both from the Universitat de València (Spain). Specialist in cultural management, digital humanities and controlled vocabularies, she has developed part of her career in research centres dedicated to the conservation and protection of cultural heritage of great prestige, such as the National Coordination of Cultural Heritage- INAH (Mexico) and the International Centre of Studies for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (Rome), working with innovative methodologies and tools that have a direct impact on society and the conservation of cultural heritage. She has participated in several projects of regional, national and European trajectory such as SILKNOW (H2020-EU), Women's Legacy (Erasmus +), SeMap (BBVA Foundation) or Arxiu Valencià del Disseny (PROMETEO-GVA).  Member of the group Rereadings. Museum Itineraries from a Gender Perspective, and of ICOM in the Documentation Committee, and in the Audiovisual and New Technologies. Author of +30 scientific publications. Her research interests are focused on Cultural Heritage, gender studies and creative industries. She has a strong interdisciplinary profile and has special interest in the emerging collaborative work between ICT and SSH researchers.