Curriculum Vitae
Current position
| Jan. 2019 -- present | Assistant Professor (tenure track) and Head of the Creative, Intelligent and Multisensory Interactions Lab at Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento |
| Nov. 2013 -- present | Co-founder and Head of Sound and Interaction Design at Elk (former MIND Music Labs) |
| Nov. 2018 -- present | Honorary Senior Research Associate at Institute of Education of University College London |
Research interests
Internet of Musical Things, Internet of Sounds, smart musical instruments, new interfaces for musical expression, real-time audio embedded systems, human-computer interaction, sonic interaction design, haptic technology, multisensory perception, sonification, virtual reality, affective computing
Education
| Sep. 2013 -- May 2015 | Master Degree in Electronic Music
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| Feb. 2010 -- Jan. 2013 | Ph.D. in Media Technology
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| Oct. 2006 -- Mar. 2009 | Master Degree in Composition (Specialisation in Electronic Music)
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| Sep. 1999 -- June 2007 | Diploma Degree (Bachelor + Master) in Classical Guitar
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| Dec. 2004 -- Sep. 2006 | M.S. in Intelligent and Multimedial Systems
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| Sep. 2001 -- Dec. 2004 | B.S. in Multimedial Information Technology
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| Sep. 1996 -- July 2001 | Diploma of Secondary School focusing on Humanities
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Academic Positions
| Jan. 2019 -- present | Assistant Professor at Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento |
| Nov. 2018 -- present | Honorary Senior Research Associate at Institute of Education of University College London |
| May 2017 -- Jan. 2019 | Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Center for Digital Music of Queen Mary University of London |
| Nov. 2016 -- Feb. 2017 | Research Engineer at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Network and Systems Engineering |
| June 2016 -- Aug. 2016 | Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University, Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Feb. 2013 -- May 2016 | Post-doc research fellow at Aalborg University Copenhagen, Department of Media Technology |
| Mar. 2009 -- Feb. 2010 | Research assistant at Aalborg University Copenhagen. Main activities: sonic interaction design |
Visiting researcher
| June 2018 | McGill University, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology |
| Sep. 2015 -- Jan. 2016 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Automatic Control |
| June 2015 -- July 2015 | Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Digital Music |
| Apr. 2015 -- June 2015 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Automatic Control |
| Jan. 2015 -- Apr. 2015 | University of Verona, Department of Neurological and Movement Sciences |
| Sep. 2014 -- Dec. 2014 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Automatic Control |
| June 2014 -- Aug. 2014 | University of Verona, Department of Neurological and Movement Sciences |
| Sep. 2013 -- May 2014 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Media Technology and Interaction Design |
| Sep. 2012 -- Dec. 2012 | University of Padova, Department of Information Engineering |
| Apr. 2012 -- July 2012 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Speech, Music and Hearing |
| July 2011 -- Aug. 2011 | University of Verona, Department of Neurological, Neuropsychological, Morphological and Movement Sciences |
| May 2010 -- June 2010 | University of Rennes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) |
| Apr. 2006 -- Aug. 2006 | Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), Music Technology Group (MTG) |
Non-academic work experience
| Nov. 2013 -- present | Founder and Head of Sound and Interaction Design at Elk |
| Oct. 2007 -- Sep. 2008 | IT Consultant for Volkswagen Group Italia. Main activities: Business Intelligence, SAS and Java programming, datawarehouse and server administration |
| Oct. 2006 -- Sep. 2007 | Freelancer programmer. Main activities: Web design, JSP and Servlet |
| Mar. 2004 -- June 2004, Jan. 2006 -- Apr. 2006 | Trainee at Computer Music Department of Conservatory of Music of Verona. Main activities: C++ and Processing programming |
Teaching experience
| Jan. 2019 -- present | At University of Trento: Lecturer for the courses "Human-Computer Interaction" and "Multisensory Interactive Systems"; Guest lecturer for the course "ICT Innovation"; details on supervision of PhD students and postdoc are available at the page of the Creative, Intelligent and Multisensory Interactions Lab |
| Nov. 2017 -- Jan. 2019 | At Queen Mary University of London: Guest lecturer for the course of "Sound Recording and Production Techniques" and co-supervision of 1 PhD student. |
| Jan. 2014 -- Mar. 2015 | At KTH Royal Institute of Technology: co-supervisor of a master student and of two Erasmus Placement and Progetto Leonardo students. |
| Feb. 2010 -- Mar. 2012 | At Aalborg University Copenhagen: teaching assistant and group supervisor for the courses of Sound Design & Perception, C++ programming, Linear Algebra, and LaTeX. Examiner for the above mentioned courses and for the courses of Image Processing, Statistics and Problem-Based Learning |
| Sep. 2005 -- Sep. 2008 | Teacher of traditional dances and traditional music at Novallys cultural association, Verona |
| Oct. 2006 -- June 2007 | Private music teacher |
Grants
Scientific grants
| Oct. 2020 | Grant of University of Trento for “Strategic projects for COVID-19”, PI |
| Sep. 2020 | 2-year grant of European Space Agency ARTES IAP 5G for L’ART Cultural Heritage, for the project “Next generation of augmented reality tourism: enhancing cultural heritage preservation”, PI, |
| Dec. 2019 | Starting Grant Young Researchers of University of Trento for application to competitive Euro- pean calls for projects, PI, A |
| Dec. 2019 | 1-year Innovation grant from EIT Digital - European Institute of Technology, for project “Longjam: a smart box for remote music playing”, PI |
| Jan. 2019 | 1-year Leadership Fellowship of the Arts and Humanities Research Council of United Kingdom (declined for position at the University of Trento) |
| Nov. 2018 | "Micro-grant" of Marie Curie Alumni Association |
| Sep. 2018 | Grants for open access fee from Queen Mary University Library |
| Jul. 2018 | "Micro-grant" of Marie Curie Alumni Association |
| Feb. 2017 | Marie Curie Individual Fellowship of the European Commission |
| Oct. 2015 | "Joint Project 2015" grant from University of Verona, co-applicant with Dept. Neurological and Movement Science of University of Verona, University Hospital of Verona, and Cochlear Ltd. |
| Feb. 2013 | Three years grant of the Danish Research Council for the project "Audio-haptic walking simulations for virtual reality, entertainment and rehabilitation applications" |
| July 2012 | Grant of Otto Mønsted foundation for the research period of 4 months at University of Padova |
| May 2010 -- June 2010 | SID-COST grant for the research period of 1 month at INRIA of Rennes |
| Apr. 2006 -- Aug. 2006 | Erasmus grant for the research period of 5 months at MTG of Barcelona |
Entrepreneurial grants
| June 2020 | “Finding new ways in the time of a crisis” of Swedish Innovation Agency VINNOVA for Elk |
| May 2020 | EIT Digital grant for financing one industrial PhD student at company GTEC |
| Apr. 2020 | EIT Digital grant for co-financing one industrial PhD student at company Elk |
| Oct. 2018 | Innovation grant "Audience of the Future: Design Foundations Competition" of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, UK Research and Innovation (co-investigator) |
| Apr. 2017 | “RunnerUp 2017” grant of VINNOVA for Elk |
| Feb. 2017 | “Innovative startups – Phase I 2017” of VINNOVA for Elk |
| Dec. 2014 | “VFT-1” grant of KTH Innovation for Elk |
| Dec. 2014 | “ALMI grant” of ALMI for Elk |
| Sep. 2014 | “VFT-0” grant of KTH Innovation for Elk |
Artistic grants
| Apr. 2019 | Grant of Fondazione C.M. Lerici/Italian institute of Culture in Stockholm for the research project “The Smart Flute” |
| Apr. 2017 | Grant of Fondazione C.M. Lerici for the research project "Augmentation of the Neapolitan Mandolin" |
| Apr. 2017 | “Movin’Up” Grant of Fondazione Giovani Artisti Italiani for the project “Hyper-mandolin@NYCEMF” |
| June 2014 | Grant of Fondazione C.M. Lerici for the research project "Augmentation of Traditional Italian Instruments" |
| Sep. 2008 -- Feb. 2009 | Grant of Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs for the research period of 6 months at Cork Institute of Technology/Cork School of Music |
Other grants
| Sep. 2015 | Wenner-Gren Foundation scholarship for 2 years subsidy at the Wenner-Gren Center Guest Researchers' Apartments |
| Feb. 2008 | Grant of Provincia di Verona to cultural association Novallys for project "Danze e Musiche tradizionali Europee" |
| Aug. 2004 | University of Verona grant for the 1 month course of English at the Nottingham Trent University |
Awards
Scientific Awards
| Nov. 2018 | Best demo and best poster award at the IEEE Open Innovations Association FRUCT 2018 |
| Dec. 2013 | Best poster award at the Interactive Sonification Workshop 2013 |
| Oct. 2010 | Top 10% paper award at the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing 2010 |
| Mar. 2010 | Selected among 10 best papers at IEEE VR Conference 2010 and invited to submit an extended journal paper for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics |
Entrepreneurial awards
| Apr. 2017 -- June 2019 | With Elk, 6 times awarded of the Seal of Excellence of the European Commission |
| Oct. 2016 | With Elk, winner of Music Tech Summit (San Francisco) |
| Aug. 2016 | With Elk, finalist of Startup Competition at BIME Startup Summit (Bilbao) |
| June 2016 | With Elk, winner of Midemlab's 2016 startup competition |
| June 2016 | With Elk, first prize at Midemlab’s 2016 international pitching competition in the category Hardware/Internet of Things |
| June 2016 | With Elk, second prize at Sónar+D Startup Garden Competition |
| June 2016 | With Elk, third prize at Stockholm's TechCrunch event |
| Nov. 2014 | Course for entrepreneurs “STING’s start-up ICT program” awarded by Stockholm Innovation & Growth |
Artistic awards
| Apr. 2018 | Selected for the music programme of International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2018 |
| Sep. 2017 | Selected for the music programme of Audio Mostly Conference 2017 |
| Mar. 2017 | Selected for the programme at New York City Electronic Music Festival 2017 |
| Mar. 2007 -- June 2007 | First prizes as classical solo guitarist at Val Tidone International Music Competition (Piacenza), at International Competition of Musical Interpretation "Cogololeto 2007" (Genova), and at Concorso Musicale per Giovani Talenti (Rivarolo Canavese) |
| Sep. 2007 | Prize for the best graduated in classical guitar at Conservatory of Music of Verona |
Artistic skills and competences
| Musician | Classical and acoustic guitar, mandolin, percussions, hurdy gurdy and bagpipe |
| Composer | Classical contemporary music, folk music, computer music and live electronics |
| Dancer | Traditional European dances |
| Background actor | Played various extra roles in the lyric operas Carmen, Aida, Turandot, Madama Butterfly, Nabucco, and Cosí fan tutte, for four lyric seasons (2002--2005) both at the amphitheatre Arena and at the theatre Filarmonico of Verona |
| Writer | Author of the book "Folk Soul", ISBN codes: 978-1-291-60240-1, 978-1-291-60248-7 |
| Other | Founder, President and artistic director of the cultural association Novallys, from September 2005 to September 2008 |
List of scientific publications
List of non-scientific publications
