Esther Merino Peral, awarded a PhD in Art History at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid UAM in 1995, taught in the Department of Fine Arts at Salamanca University USAL until 2003. From this date until 2007 she lectured in the Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture and Geodesy ETSAG, at the University of Alcalá de Henares UAH and is now Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, at the Complutense University at Madrid, where this year she begins to teach the subject of Art and Scenographic Culture, in the Degree of Theatre Studies, the only one of its kind in Spanish universities. She was a guest researcher in the Department of Architecture, History and Design of Florence University in 2015. Her research focuses on the history of stage design and performance arts and new technologies, intangible, cultural heritage, performing arts archives and their pedagogy, topics on which she has published widely. Creator and editor of the website Mnemosine. Atlas escenográfico, which includes monographic publications, in the form of book and magazín associated.

