Aleksandra Uzelac works as a Research Advisor at IRMO, and she is the Head of the Department for Culture and Communication. She holds a PhD in Information Sciences (2023) from the University of Zagreb. Dr Uzelac has 30 years of professional experience in the area of cultural research, dealing with cultural development and cultural policy issues in the European context, digital culture, European cultural cooperation, and networks. She Has been an active member of various expert groups that focused their activities in the field of cultural policies or digital culture, bringing into the policy mainstream issues related to the new context that digital culture has brought to the cultural policies and cultural sector. Since 2023 she has been a member of the UNESCO Expert Facility. In addition, Dr Uzelac has provided her research expertise in the form of research studies and issue papers for the Council of Europe, the European Commission, and the European Parliament. She coordinated a group of experts providing cultural policy-related expertise to the European Parliament and has participated in several EU-funded projects. Recently, she has been the IRMO team coordinator of the larger Horizon project ‘Social Platform for Holistic Heritage Impact Assessment’ (SoPHIA), as well as, on the project Rapids and Backwaters. Adapting Fast and Slow to a Digital Cultural Turn, financed by the Research Council of Norway. She was the coordinator of the Jean Monnet project ‘EU Competences and National Cultural Policies: Critical Dialogues’ (2016-2018) which put in focus issues of perspectives of national cultural policy development in the EU context and issues related to the Digital Single Market reform and its impact on culture and media in Croatia, which will provide for excellent basis for policy dimension of the CRESCINE project.