Ana Vasconcelos E Melo has been curator at the Modern Art Center of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (MAC-CGF) in Lisbon since 1997, and is presently acting as Head Curator, in charge of the whole collection of around 8,500 works of art. She received her MA in History of Art from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2001, on the visual production of the artists and soldiers of Johann Maurits von Nassau-Siegen in Dutch occupied Brazil (1630-1654). During her time at MAC-CGF, she has worked extensively on many of the British artists represented in the collection (the Gulbenkian possesses the largest collection of British art from the 1960s outside the UK), as well as Arshile Gorky, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and other Portuguese artists. She has a strong interest in art conservation, and this has lead her to organize projects, conferences and internships on the conservation issues of some of the artworks of the collection, including collaborations with the Tate, the Courtauld Institute of Art, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NY University.