Mesut Dinler, received a PhD in Architectural and Landscape Heritage Program at the Politecnico di Torino. He was involved in various international conservation projects, including projects managed by the Getty Conservation Institute, the Association for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Historic Charleston Foundation with US/ICOMOS. As assistant professor with time contract, he is currently involved in the management of heritage-related research projects, including those funded by the European Commission. He is the 2022 ICCROM fellow. His research interests include urban and architectural history, political and social role of cultural heritage digital humanities. On these topics, he has published in several international journals - including Urban History, Sustainability, J. of Cult. Her. Manag. and Sust. Dev., Int. Jour. of Hist. Archaeo., Aistarch, ArcHistor - and is the author of the book “Modernization through Past” (ETS, 2019).