diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 95a7f03..71540c6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
+This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
+
 # Changelog for "oidc-library"
 
+## [v1.1.0-SNAPSHOT]
+- Added avatar configuration and retrieve helper method (#19726)
+
 ## [v1.0.0-SNAPSHOT]
 - First release (#19225) (#19226) (#19227)
-
-
-This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fb16d9b..c227b67 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 	</parent>
 	<groupId>org.gcube.common</groupId>
 	<artifactId>oidc-library</artifactId>
-	<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>1.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 	<dependencyManagement>
 		<dependencies>
 			<dependency>
diff --git a/profile.xml b/profile.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0fe7047..0000000
--- a/profile.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<Resource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
-	<ID></ID>
-	<Type>Portlet</Type>
-	<Profile>
-		<Description>${project.description}</Description>
-		<Class>PortletUser</Class>
-		<Name>${project.artifactId}</Name>
-		<Version>1.0.0</Version>
-		<Packages>
-			<Software>
-				<Name>${project.artifactId}</Name>
-				<Description>${project.description}</Description>
-				<MavenCoordinates>
-					<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
-					<artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
-					<version>${project.version}</version>
-				</MavenCoordinates>
-				<Files>
-					<File>${project.build.finalName}.${project.packaging}</File>
-				</Files>
-			</Software>
-		</Packages>
-	</Profile>
-</Resource>
diff --git a/service_archive.xml b/service_archive.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7fb882c..0000000
--- a/service_archive.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-<plugin>
-	<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-	<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
-	<configuration>
-		<descriptors>
-			<descriptor>descriptor.xml</descriptor>
-		</descriptors>
-	</configuration>
-	<executions>
-		<execution>
-			<id>servicearchive</id>
-			<phase>install</phase>
-			<goals>
-				<goal>single</goal>
-			</goals>
-		</execution>
-	</executions>
-</plugin>
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diff --git a/src/main/java/org/gcube/oidc/rest/JWTToken.java b/src/main/java/org/gcube/oidc/rest/JWTToken.java
index b7ebccf..083664c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/gcube/oidc/rest/JWTToken.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/gcube/oidc/rest/JWTToken.java
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ public class JWTToken implements Serializable {
         return (String) token.get("refresh_token");
     }
 
-    public String getAsBearer() {
+    public String getAccessTokenAsBearer() {
         return "Bearer " + getAccessTokenString();
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/gcube/oidc/rest/OpenIdConnectConfiguration.java b/src/main/java/org/gcube/oidc/rest/OpenIdConnectConfiguration.java
index 0429815..d3ee867 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/gcube/oidc/rest/OpenIdConnectConfiguration.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/gcube/oidc/rest/OpenIdConnectConfiguration.java
@@ -18,4 +18,6 @@ public interface OpenIdConnectConfiguration {
 
     URL getAuthorizationURL();
 
+    URL getAvatarURL();
+
 }
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diff --git a/src/main/java/org/gcube/oidc/rest/OpenIdConnectRESTHelper.java b/src/main/java/org/gcube/oidc/rest/OpenIdConnectRESTHelper.java
index fadef61..574bd23 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/gcube/oidc/rest/OpenIdConnectRESTHelper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/gcube/oidc/rest/OpenIdConnectRESTHelper.java
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 package org.gcube.oidc.rest;
 
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
@@ -93,10 +95,10 @@ public class OpenIdConnectRESTHelper {
         return JWTToken.fromString(sb.toString());
     }
 
-    protected static HttpURLConnection performURLEncodedPOSTSendData(URL tokenURL, Map<String, List<String>> params,
+    protected static HttpURLConnection performURLEncodedPOSTSendData(URL url, Map<String, List<String>> params,
             String authorization) throws IOException, ProtocolException, UnsupportedEncodingException {
 
-        HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) tokenURL.openConnection();
+        HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
         con.setRequestMethod("POST");
         con.setDoOutput(true);
         con.setDoInput(true);
@@ -193,7 +195,7 @@ public class OpenIdConnectRESTHelper {
         params.put("client_id", Arrays.asList(URLEncoder.encode(clientId, "UTF-8")));
         params.put("refresh_token", Arrays.asList(token.getRefreshTokenString()));
         logger.info("Performing logut from OIDC server with URL: " + logoutUrl);
-        HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = performURLEncodedPOSTSendData(logoutUrl, params, token.getAsBearer());
+        HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = performURLEncodedPOSTSendData(logoutUrl, params, token.getAccessTokenAsBearer());
         int responseCode = httpURLConnection.getResponseCode();
         if (responseCode == 204) {
             logger.info("Logout performed correctly");
@@ -203,4 +205,27 @@ public class OpenIdConnectRESTHelper {
         }
         return false;
     }
+
+    public static byte[] getUserAvatar(URL avatarURL, JWTToken token) throws Exception {
+        HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) avatarURL.openConnection();
+        conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
+        conn.setDoOutput(false);
+        conn.setDoInput(true);
+        conn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif");
+        if (token != null) {
+            String authorization = token.getAccessTokenAsBearer();
+            logger.debug("Adding authorization header as: {}", authorization);
+            conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", authorization);
+        }
+        InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();
+        ByteArrayOutputStream buffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        int nRead;
+        byte[] data = new byte[1024];
+        while ((nRead = is.read(data, 0, data.length)) != -1) {
+            buffer.write(data, 0, nRead);
+        }
+
+        buffer.flush();
+        return buffer.toByteArray();
+    }
 }
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