Jorge Otero is a research fellow at the University of Granada (UGR, ESP). He holds a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Sheffield Hallam University (UK). He specializes in the characterization of masonry materials, their degradation phenomena, and the development of technologies for their conservation. He is now the PI of the Horizon2020-funded NANOMORT project. Before joining UGR, he was an emerging researcher at the Getty Conservation Institute (USA) the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute (USA) and the National Trust for Scotland(NTS, UK). He is a member of ICOMOS and coauthor of the open-access “Built Heritage Evaluation Manual” published by the Smithsonian Scholarly Press in 2021.