Cinta Krahe holds a Ph.D from Leiden University and an M.A degree in Chinese Art and Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is associate lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and has taught “East Asian Decorative Arts and Material Culture” at the Universidad de Alcalá and the Universidad Nebrija, Madrid. She was one of the curators of the exhibition Orientando la Mirada. Arte Asiático en colecciones públicas madrileñas (Madrid, 2009) and was also in charge of cataloguing the Chinese porcelain salvaged from the San Diego galleon in the Naval Museum, Madrid.