Curriculum Vitae
Martha Eladia Thomae Elias
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Martha Eladia Thomae Elias
Citation names
- Thomae, Martha E.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 951D-771F-2537
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-5042-2266
Email addresses
- marthathomae@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
- martha.thomaeelias@mail.mcgill.ca (Professional)
Websites
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/martha-thomae/ (Professional)
- https://martha-thomae.github.io/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Engineering and Technology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2017/09/01 - 2022/10/31
Concluded
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Music Technology (Doktor (PhD))
McGill University Schulich School of Music, Canada
"Guatemalan Cathedral Choirbooks: From Manuscript to Digital Images to Edited Symbolic Scores" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2015/09/01 - 2017/12/31
Concluded
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Music Technology (Master Universitario)
McGill University Schulich School of Music, Canada
"Automatic Scoring Up of Mensural Music Using Perfect Mensurations, 1300–1550" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2013
Concluded
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Mathematics (Bachelor)
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala
"Desarrollo de un modelo algorítmico para la transformación de partituras musicales escritas en notación mensural blanca a
notación contemporánea" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2012
Concluded
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Art History: Medieval and Islamic Art (Diplôme d´études supérieures)
Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2023/11/01 - 2026/02/28 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2023/02/15 - 2023/11/30 | Postdoc (Research) | McGill University, Canada |
| 2015/09/01 - 2023/02/14 | Research Assistant (Research) | McGill University, Canada |
| 2020 - 2022 | Research Assistant (Research) | Brandeis University, United States |
| McGill University, Canada | ||
| 2020/09/01 - 2021/12/31 | Coordinating Researcher (Research) | McGill University, Canada |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2020/09/01 - 2020/12/31 | Lecturer (University Teacher) | McGill University, Canada |
| 2017/09/01 - 2018/12/31 | Assistant (University Teacher) | McGill University, Canada |
| 2014/01/01 - 2014/05/31 | Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala |
| 2011/01/01 - 2011/05/31 | Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala |
| 2009/01/01 - 2009/05/31 | Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala |
| 2008/07/01 - 2008/11/30 | Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2022/01/01 - Current | Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission
Researcher
Dalhousie University, Canada
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Government of Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Ongoing
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| 2023/10/01 - 2026/02/28 | Echoes from the Past: Unveiling a Lost Soundscape with Digital Analysis
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2024 - 2024 | Dynamic scoring-up and display of early music in Verovio
Technical development
Universität Paderborn, Germany
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Ongoing
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| 2023/02/01 - 2023/10/31 | LinkedMusic: Interlinking music resources for enhanced access
Post-doc Fellow
McGill University, Canada
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Government of Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Ongoing
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| 2015/09/01 - 2023/01/31 | Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis
Researcher
McGill University, Canada
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Government of Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Concluded
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| 2018/05 - 2022/04 | Guatemalan Cathedral Choirbooks: From Manuscript to Digital Images to Symbolic Editorial Scores
2019-B2Z- 261749
McGill University, Canada
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Fonds de recherche du Québec Société et culture
Concluded
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| 2020/01 - 2020/12 | Measuring Polyphony: An Online Music Editor for Late Medieval Polyphony
Researcher
Brandeis University, United States
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/07/06 | Workshop: Encoding Neumes with MEI | Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference
University of Granada (Granada, Spain)
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| 2024/06/28 | Digital Images and Symbolic Corpus of Sacred Polyphonic Music in Guatemala and their Retrieval Process | Digital Technologies Applied to Music Research Conference: Methodologies, Projects and Challenges
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2024/06/27 | Enhancing Musicological Analysis through Digital Tools | Digital Technologies Applied to Music Research Conference: Methodologies, Projects and Challenges
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2024/06/25 | MEI Encoding of Early Music. The Neumes Module | Research Seminar Series “Musicologists and Their Sources: The Alchemy of Turning Parchment into Pixels” (being part of the
COST Action Early Muse)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2024/06/24 | Music Retrieval Tools (OMR and Music Analysis) | Research Seminar Series “Musicologists and Their Sources: The Alchemy of Turning Parchment into Pixels” (being part of the
COST Action Early Muse)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2024/06/22 | From Manuscript to Pixel. Tips for a Digitizing Campaign and for Handling Endangered Sources | Research Seminar Series “Musicologists and Their Sources: The Alchemy of Turning Parchment into Pixels” (being part of the
COST Action Early Muse)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/05/24 | Codificación y publicación de música: Un taller sobre la Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) | Semana de Humanidades Digitales
Online (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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| 2024/05/21 | Encoding and Analysis of Early Music: Aquitanian and Square Music Scripts | Music Encoding Conference
University of North Texas (Denton, Texas, United States)
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| 2024/02/14 | Cantorales in the Americas & Beyond |
Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical (CESEM), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2024/02/01 | De Pergaminho a Biblioteca Digital: O Cantochão de Braga e Guimarães como Estudo de Caso | 4º Encontro Nacional de Investigadores IN2PAST
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2023/12/13 | MIR for Early Music Documents: Technologies behind the Semi-Automatic Encoding of Mensural Sources into Symbolic Scores | Computational and Digital Approaches to Music Scholarship
University of Würzburg (Würzburg, Germany)
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| 2023/09/08 | Updates and Outcomes from the Guatemalan Digitization and Encoding Project | Music Encoding and Text Encoding Initiative Joint Conference
Universität Paderborn (Paderborn, Germany)
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| 2023/07/25 | MEI-Workshop: Mensural Music | Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference
(Munnich, Germany)
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| 2023/05/12 | Codificación y publicación de música: Un taller sobre Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) | Semana de Humanidades Digitales
Online
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| 2022/12/06 | Counterpoint Error-Detection Tools for Optical Music Recognition of Renaissance Polyphonic Music | International Society of Music Information Retrieval
(Bengaluru, India)
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| 2022/11/11 | AMS-IAMSG Lightning Lounge – Cantorales: Spanish Chant Books in the Americas and Beyond | American Musicological Society / Society for Ethnomusicology / Society for Music Theory Joint Meeting
(New Orleans, United States)
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| 2022/11/11 | Music Encoding for Research, Pedagogy, and Discovery – Guatemalan Cathedral Choirbooks: From Manuscripts to Digital Images to Symbolic Editorial Scores | American Musicological Society / Society for Ethnomusicology / Society for Music Theory Joint Meeting
(New Orleans, United States)
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| 2022/08/24 | Guatemalan Cathedral Choirbooks: Automatic Transcription of Mensural Sources for Their Preservation, Access, and Study | International Musicological Society Congress
(Athens, Greece)
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| 2022/07/27 | Digitization of Choirbooks in Guatemala | Digital Libraries for Musicology
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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| 2022/05/19 | Interactive OMR-Assisted Transcription of Mensural Sources Using MuRET | Music Encoding Conference
Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada)
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| 2022/03/11 | Accidental Discoveries | Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (DACT) Workshop 7: Cantorales in the Americas and Beyond
Online
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| 2021/12/02 | OMR and Digital Technologies Applied to Music | Palaeography course
Centro de Estudos de Sociología e Estética Musical (CESEM), NOVA University of Lisbon (online) (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2021/07/21 | Encoding Polyphony from Medieval Manuscripts Notated in Mensural Notation | Music Encoding Conference
University of Alicante (hybrid) (San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain)
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| 2021/07/06 | Guatemalan Cathedral Choirbook 1: From Manuscript to Digital Images to Digital Scores | Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (hybrid) (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2021/03/18 | Workshop I: Making Rodan Work for You | Digital Humanities in Early Music Research 2021 – Session I: OMR-Capable Chant Editors
Online (Prague, Czech Republic)
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| 2021/01/26 | Digital Infrastructures for Mensural Music Using MEI |
Kolloquium Musikwissenschaft, Freiburg er Forschungs und Lehrzentrum Musik (FZM) (online) (Freiburg, Germany)
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| 2021/01/25 | Encoding Mensural Notation with MEI | Paleography course
University of Freiburg (online) (Freiburg, Germany)
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| 2020/06/30 | Workshop II: Hands-on MEI Encoding | Digital Humanities in Early Music Research I Series – Session II: Early Music Databases and Encoding
Online (Prague, Czech Republic)
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| 2020/06/24 | Workshop I: Introduction to MEI | Digital Humanities in Early Music Research I Series – Session II: Early Music Databases and Encoding
Online (Prague, Czech Republic)
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| 2020/06/22 | MEI for Encoding Mensural Music – A Survey | Digital Humanities in Early Music Research I Series – Session II: Early Music Databases and Encoding
Online (Prague, Czech Republic)
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| 2020/05/27 | Retrieving Music Semantics from Optical Music Recognition by Machine Translation | Music Encoding Conference
Tufts University (online) (Boston, United States)
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| 2019/11/27 | Digitization and Encoding of the Musical Contents of a Set of Guatemalan Choirbooks | Lecture for Multimedia Systems (GLIS 633) course
McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
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| 2019/11/09 | The Mensural Scoring-up Tool | Digital Libraries for Musicology
National Library of The Netherlands (The Hague, Netherlands)
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| 2019/09/21 | OMR for Mensural Notation: Looking at a Guatemalan Music Manuscript | SIMSSA Workshop XIX
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (Montreal, Canada)
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| 2019/07/10 | Taking Digital Humanities to Guatemala, a Case Study in the Preservation of Colonial Musical Heritage | Digital Humanities Conference
Tivoli Vredenburg (Utrecht, Netherlands)
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| 2019/06/02 | Guatemalan Manuscripts: Digitization Issues and Future Challenges in the Adaption of the OMR Workflow for Mensural Music | SIMSSA Workshop XVIII
Department of Musicology, University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
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| 2019/05/31 | Application of Music-Encoding Technologies to Guatemalan Choirbooks, Facilitating Preservation and Musicological Studies of the Colonial Repertoire | Music Encoding Conference
University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
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| 2019/03/18 | Preservation of the Colonial Musical Heritage of Guatemala through Digitization and Music Encoding Technologies | Association of Canadian Archivists McGill Student Chapter’s annual colloquium: Archival Outreach & Hidden Collections
McLennan-Redpath Library Complex, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
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| 2018/12/01 | Guatemalan Manuscript Digitization Project | SIMSSA Workshop XVII: Infrastructure for Music Discovery
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (Montreal, Canada)
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| 2018/07/06 | Automatic Scoring up of Parts in Mensural Notation | Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference
Maynooth University (Maynooth, Ireland)
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| 2018/05/23 | Automatic Scoring up of Music in Mensural Notation | Music Encoding Conference
Maryland University (College Park, United States)
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| 2018/04/27 | Automatic Scoring up of Mensural Parts | Digital Musicology Workshop
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (Montreal, Canada)
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| 2017/08/07 | Automatic Scoring-up Tool for Mensural Music | SIMSSA Workshop XII
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (Montreal, Canada)
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| 2017/05/22 | A Methodology for Encoding Mensural Music: Introducing the Mensural MEI Translator |
Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2017/05/17 | A Methodology for Encoding Mensural Music: Introducing the Mensural MEI Translator | Music Encoding Conference
Université de Tours (Tours, France)
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| 2016/09/24 | Digital Encoding of Mensural Music | SIMSSA Workshop X
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (Montreal, Canada)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024 - 2024 | General Chair for the Digital Libraries for Musicology (2024/06/27)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
| 2023 - 2023 | Program Chair for the Digital Libraries for Musicology (2023/11/10)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi di Milano Biblioteca, Italy |
| 2022/07/28 - 2022/07/28 | Session chair for the Digital Libraries for Musicology (2022/07/28)
Conference (Other)
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Mestská knihovna v Praze, Czech Republic |
| 2021/07/20 - 2021/07/20 | Session chair for the Music Encoding Conference (2021/07/19 - 2021/07/22)
Conference (Other)
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Universitat d'Alacant, Spain |
Ad Hoc journal article review
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2024 - 2024 | Resonancias: Revista de investigación musical, Instituto de Música de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | |
| 2024 - 2024 | Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR) | |
| 2024 - 2024 | Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (jTEI) |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2017 - Current | International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) | Member |
| 2016 - Current | Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) | Member |
| 2016 - Current | Mensural Interest Group of the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) | Member |
| 2016 - 2022 | Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) | Student member |
| 2017 - 2019 | Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) | Student Coordinator of Research Axis 2: Music Information Research |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/07/01 - Current | Co-Chair of the Mensural Interest Group of the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) community
Director
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| 2020/01/01 - 2022/12/31 | Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) Board Member
Member
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| 2020 - 2021 | Co-Chair of the Mensural Interest Group of the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) community
Director
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Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
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| 2024 - 2024 | Text Encoding Initiative Conference | Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 2024 - 2024 | Digital Technologies Applied to Music Research Conference: Methodologies, Projects and Challenges | CESEM, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa |
| 2021 - 2021 | Digital Libraries for Musicology | Online |
| 2021 - 2021 | Music Encoding Conference | Universitat d'Alacant |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023 - Current | Reviewer of the Spanish translation of MEI tutorials (https://music-encoding.org/resources/tutorials-ES.html) | |
| 2020 - Current | Editor of the Guidelines' Chapter on Mensural Notation (for the Music Encoding Initiative, MEI) |
Distinctions
Award
| 2024 | Inclusiveness Target Country (ITC) Conference Grant
European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
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| 2019 | Best Paper Award
Music Encoding Initiative, Germany
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| 2019 | Travel Award
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, Canada
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| 2019 | Inter-Centre Research Exchange Funding
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, Canada
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| 2018 | Travel Award
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, Canada
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| 2013 | Honors mention for undergraduate thesis
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala
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| 2010 | Academic Distinction
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala
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| 2007 | Academic Distinction
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala
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Other distinction
| 2020 | McGill's Nominee for the Northeastern Association for Graduate Schools (NAGS) for Master's Thesis Award in Arts & Humanities
McGill University, Canada
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