Mário Bruno Pastor is currently a PhD candidate in Heritage Studies, focused in the industrialisation legacy of the Northern Portugal 19th and 20th centuries woollen mills, in the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University (Portugal). His PhD program is financed by the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). He has a Master degree in Heritage and Cultural Tourism by the Institute of Social Sciences of University of Minho (Portugal) and he is graduated in History and Archaeology and post-graduated in Economic Structures and Industrialisation by the Faculty of Arts of University of Porto (Portugal). He is a researcher in the Centre of Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR) and member of the editorial board of ECR - Estudos de Conservação e Restauro journal.