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Leslie Carlyle is a retired Associate Professor of Painting Conservation at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of the NOVA University of Lisbon. She received her doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London while on education leave from her position as a painting’s conservator at the Canadian Conservation Institute. She joined the Department of Conservation and Restoration of the NOVA University of Lisbon in 2009, having previously been the Head of the Conservation Department at Tate in the UK. Before that, between 2002 and 2005 she was the Principal Investigator for 2 research projects in the De Mayerne Programme in Amsterdam which was funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. One of her projects was to carry out Historically Accurate Reconstructions of oil painting materials, and the other was to develop with Mark Clarke, a page-image database for the British colourman, Winsor and Newton’s 19th century archive. This database was then upgraded to the Researcher’s edition which was funded in the UK and developed by Mark Clarke with her involvement. She has published widely, is recognised for her significant contributions to the international field of Technical Art History and has held advisory positions in European research and conservation treatment initiatives.