Dr Nina Díaz Fernández (Split, Croatia 29^th August 1981) is an art historian with a PhD in Cultural Heritage Conservation and is an expert on history and theory of conservation in Eastern Europe. During her work in the Ministry of Culture Republic of Croatia she has been awarded several Internships in London, Istanbul and Ravenna specializing in Chemistry in Cultural Heritage as recipient of Getty Foundation Grants. She has conducted 25 national and 3 international projects. Aside from that she was teaching at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split (Croatia). In 2014 she was awarded a “Marie Curie Sklodowska Action” Fellowship, conducting the project “Comparison of Croatian and Slovenian conservators Ljubo Karaman and France Stele in the context of Vienna School of Art History” at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). She is an author of 30 scientific papers and 2 books, and she is the organizer of numerous International Conferences and Summer Schools, like the annual International Conference for PhD Students and Recent PhD Graduates, done in collaboration with the University in Ljubljana (Slovenia), University of Split (Croatia), University of Rijeka (Croatia) and University of Belgrade (Serbia). She is an editorial and Board member of IEREK and an active member of ICOMOS (TheoPhilos ISC). Her current research is focused on the conservation practices in former Yugoslavia in the Interwar period, and with the revitalization of the endangered socialist monuments in Croatia, so-called “Spomeniks”. Aside from that, she is the task force leader of the Marie Curie Alumni Association in Social Sciences and Humanities Department, active and vocal defender of gender issues in research, having been interviewed in international newspapers about this topic, and an expert in the inequalities that Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) researchers, especially those in the early stage of their careers, face. Since 2017 she is an assistant at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Nina also colaborates in the project of Europa Nostra as European Heritage Volunteer as a reporter and journalist for the Cultural Heritage

See also her profile at http://uni-aas.academia.edu/NinaD%C3%ADazFern%C3%A1ndez   Contact:  nina.diaz.fernandez@gmail.com

 Recent Publications

- N. Díaz Fernández, LJUBO KARAMAN 2017 – Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Dalmatia 1919-1941, publisher: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia- N. Unkovic, Bio-bibliography of Gjuro Szabo, Croatian art historians: Gjuro Szabo, Society of Croatian Art Historians (monography) (accepted)

- I. N. Unkovic, 2017 Post-Conflict Recovery of Diocletian"s Palace in Split (Croatia) and Kostanjevica Monastery (Slovenia), Proceedings, 4th HCMS Conference “Catastrophe and Challenge: Cultural Heritage in Post-Conflict Recovery”, pp. 73-83

- N. Unkovic, 2017 Matej Sternen as restorer: selected examples in Croatia and Slovenia, Ars and Humanitas - N. Unkovic, History and Methodology of protection of cultural heritage in former Yugoslavia between two world wars, booklet Marie Curie Alumni Association, pp. 78

- N. Unkovic, I. Unetič, M. Malešič, 2016 Building Technologies and Heritage Conservation (book), publisher: Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

- N.Unkovic, 2016 History and Conservation of Sphinxes in Diocletian"s Palace in Split (Croatia), Procedia journal Social and Behavioral Sciences, pp. 96-106

 N.Unkovic, 2015 Reconstruction of Sibenik and Split after the Second World War, Conference paper, Post-War Restoration of Monuments. Theory and Practice of the 20th Century, St. Petersburg, pp. 208-218

N. Unkovic, 2014 The Unification of Restoration Work within the Conservation Activities - Croatian Example, Proceedings, 1^st International Conference for PhD Students and Recent PhD Graduate: Decline-Metamorphosis-Rebirth, Ljubljana

-N. Unkovic, I. Kursan Milakovic, 2014 Market framework for evaluating works of art: customer / consumer perspective, Evaluation of art works in the context of economical market, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, pp. 47-66