Alfredo Adolfo Ortega-Ordaz, born in 1993 at Durango, Mexico, is part of the Conservation Department of the “Museo de El Carmen” in Mexico City, were he works with different types of New-Spain artworks and on a parallel project of mummies conservation. In 2011, he began his studies in Conservation and Restoration of Movable Heritage at the “Escuela de Conservación y Restauración de Occidente” (ECRO). In 2016, he concluded the bachelor’s degree program and studied the optative research course “Scientific studies applied to polychromed sculpting” at the “Laboratorio de Análisis y Diagnóstico del Patrimonio” (LADiPA), of the “El Colegio de Michoacán” (COLMICH). That year, he worked as research assistant at LADIPA-COLMICH carrying out the characterization of artistic and historic materials used in sculptures and paintings by different instrumental methods, like FTIR-ATR Spectroscopy, Raman-Spectroscopy, P-XRF, SEM-EDS and Optical Microscopy. In 2017-2018 he developed his thesis work “Effects of the relative humidity and temperature on debarked maize stem lightweight sculptures” in collaboration with researchers of the LADiPA-COLMICH; the “Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán” (CICY); and the “National Center for Genetic Resources” (CNRG) of the “National Institute of Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock Research” (INIFAP). Recently, he and his collaborators won the “XpectralTEK student poster prize” at the IIC 27th Biennial Congress in Turin, Italy with the theme “Effects of a past treatment on debarked maize stems, a constituent material of lightweight sculptures”.