Salvador Muñoz Viñas is a Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València and head of the Paper conservation group of the university’s Conservation Institute (IRP). He was born in Valencia, Spain, where he continues to live and work. He has university degrees in Fine Arts and Art History, and a Diploma in Paper Engineering. He got a PhD in Fine Arts with a work on the technical aspects of Italian miniature painting from the Renaissance. Throughout his career, he has worked as a paper conservator in the Historical Library of the University of Valencia, as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard, or as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at NYU, and has lectured at many other institutions and universities. He has published several books on conservation theory, such as Contemporary Theory of Conservation (Oxford, 2005), On the Ethics of Cultural Heritage (London, 2020), and A Theory of Cultural Heritage. Beyond the Intangible (New York, 2023). In his texts, he advocates for a  more open and efficient understanding of conservation and conservation ethics. Aside from Spanish and English, his books have been translated into languages such as Portuguese, Italian, Czech, French, Arab, Chinese, Persian, or Korean, which has expanded the impact of his work to both Western and non-Western cultural settings.