Sabina Simonič is Senior Scientist at the Institute for Conservation and Restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

She is specialized in conservation of modern and contemporary art and has been working as a freelance conservator since 2003.

From 2009-2012 she served as chairwoman of the Austrian Hackerspace Metalab and is a founding member of the feminist Hackerspace Mz Baltazar’s Lab. She has been an active member of the Senate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna since 2016 and has held the position of Vice Chair of the Senate in 2019.

Currently she is Vice President of the Professional Association of Austrian Restorers ÖRV, board member of the European Network for Conservation-Restoration Education ENCoRE, and is currently the Austrian Delegate at the European Confederation of Conservators-Restorers’ Organizations ECCO.