Juan Antonio Herráez is a biologist, scientific conservator and Preventive Conservation technician. He has worked in the Preventive Conservation Department of the Research and Training Area of the Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España (IPCE) since 1986. His line of work focuses on the study and research of methods of diagnosis, monitoring and control of environmental conditions, and on the development of methodologies and preventive conservation projects for both movable and immovable cultural assets. 

Coordinator of the National Preventive Conservation Plan promoted by the IPCE and approved in 2011 by the Consejo de Patrimonio Histórico Español. Member of the Mesa Técnica de Patrimonio and of the Programa Ibermuseos, and accredited member of the UNE (Spanish Standardisation) in the Technical Committee for Standardisation in matters of the Conservation of Cultural Heritage of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN).