Marta C. Lourenço is the director of the National Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Lisbon (MUHNAC) and the national coordinator of PRISC (Portuguese Research Infrastructure of Scientific Collections). She has background training in Physics, a MA in Museology and a PhD in History of Technology and Museology. She is a member of CIUHCT with research interests in the history of scientific collections, scientific heritage, colonial collections and university museums. She teaches material culture of science at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.