EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

03/2025- Researcher. Music Department. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. NOVA University of Lisbon. Research Project: Echoes from the Past: Unveiling a Lost Soundscape with Digital Analysis

02/2019-01/2025 Researcher. Music Department. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. NOVA University of Lisbon. Research Project: A pre-Gregorian musical repertory under scrutiny: neumes, scribes, and books of the Old Hispanic Chant

10/2016–01/2019 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical (CESEM), NOVA University of Lisbon. Research Project: Portuguese Early Music Database (PEM). Supervisor: Manuel Pedro Ferreira. FCSH/CESEM/EAT/00693

05/2013–08/2016 Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Medieval Musicology on ‘Shaping Text, Shaping Melody, Shaping Experience in and through the Old Hispanic Office’. Emma Hornby, PI. University of Bristol, UK. Research Project: The Palaeography of Old Hispanic Notation

05/2011–04/2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical (CESEM), NOVA University of Lisbon. Research Project: French Sources and French Influence in Portugal: Liturgical Music, 12th–15th Centuries. Supervisors: Manuel Pedro Ferreira and Barbara Haggh-Huglo. SFRH/BPD/72683/2010/J552041XkBjn

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of scientific boards

07/2025-present Assistant coordinator of the Early Music Group at CESEM FCSH Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
09/2024-present Member of the Management Committee of the COST Action “Participation through Prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World” (PRAYTICIPATE) CA23143
06/2024-present Elected treasurer of the Portuguese Society for Research in Music (SPIM)
04/2024-present Digital curator of CESEM FCSH Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
04/2023-present Member of the Board of Directors of CESEM FCSH Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. As of 04/2025, I have also taken on the role of Executive Secretary
11/2022-present Team Lead for the sub-project “MEI and DACT” within the project “Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission” (DACT), Dalhousie University (Canada)
03/2021-present Centre d'Études de Paléographie Musicale (CEPM), Association Musicologie Médiévale (France)
01/2019-12/2021 Music Encoding Initiative: elected member of the board for the term 2019-21 (also nominated 'Administrative Chair' for the years 2020-21) (Germany)
2018– present Co-director of the new book series Musicalia Antiquitatis & Medii Aevi (MUSAM) by Brepols (with Jean-François Goudesenne and Frank Lawrence) (Belgium)

Member of scientific committees at conferences

27-29/11/2025. XIV Encontro de Investigação em Música (ENIM). Sociedade Portuguesa de Investigação em Música (SPIM). Évora (Portugal)
26/09/2025. Programme Chair at the 12th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (in association with ISMIR 2025). Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea
11-13/06/2025. Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), virtual conference 2025
3-6/06/2025 Music Encoding Conference, London (UK)
6-8/11/2024 Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) 2024 Virtual Conference
27/06/2024 11th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (in association with IAML 2024). University Konservatorium, Stellenbosch (South Africa)
10/11/2023 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology. Milan (Italia)
28/09-01/10/2023 XII Encontro de Investigação em Música (ENIM). Sociedade Portuguesa de Investigação em Música (SPIM). Mafra (Portugal)
9-11/12/2022 Early Music Pedagogy Then and Now: From the Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance. Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca. Istituto Italiano di Musica Antica, Palma Choralis, Brescia (Italy)
5-9/07/2021 Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference. CESEM FCSH-NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal)
10–12/12/2020 Using the Past: The Middle Ages in the Spotlight. Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória, Batalha (Portugal)
24-29/05/2020 Music Encoding Conference. Tufts University, Boston (USA)
24–27/07/2019 Fifth International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR). Monash University, Melbourne (Australia)
5-6/4/2019 International Conference ‘Música y contextos en el mundo ibérico medieval y renacentista’ (MEDyREN). Borja, (Spain)
8-10/11/2018 VIII Encontro de Investigação em Música (ENIM). Sociedade Portuguesa de Investigação em Música (SPIM). Oporto (Portugal)
6-7/04/2018 International Conference ‘Música y espacios sonoros en las instituciones civiles y eclesiásticas de la península ibérica hasta el siglo XVI’ (MEDyREN). Guadalupe (Spain)
24-26/05/2018 Fourth International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR). Montréal (Canada)
24–26/05/2017 Third International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR). A Coruña (Spain)

Participation in research projects

06/2024- Participation in the new COST Action “Participation through Prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World” (CA23143)
03/2023-02/2026 PI of ‘Echoes from the Past: Unveiling a Lost Soundscape with Digital Analysis’. (2022.01957.PTDC). CESEM, FCSH - NOVA University of Lisbon
01/2022-06/2023 Researcher in 'The Musical Manuscripts from the Monastery of Belém: the Exploration of an Unknown Hieronymite Tradition’. (EXPL/ART-PER/1031/2021). Océane Boudeau PI. CESEM, FCSH - NOVA University of Lisbon
2021-2024 Researcher in 'Texts and voices lost and found'. Recovering, reconstituing, and recreating musical fragments (c. 1100-c.1600). João Pedro d'Alvarenga PI. CESEM, FCSH - NOVA University of Lisbon
2019-03/2023 Collaborator on 'Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission' (DACT). Jennifer Bain PI. Dalhousie University. Moreover, I was appointed Team Lead for the 'MEI and DACT' working group (DACT) starting from 11/2021-
2014–2020 Collaborator on ‘Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis’ (SIMSSA). Ichiro Fujinaga, PI. McGill University, Canada
2014–2018 Collaborator on ‘Cantus Ultimus: Building the Ideal Online Plainchant Research Environment’. Ichiro Fujinaga, PI. McGill University, Canada
05/2013–08/2016 Researcher in ‘Shaping Text, Shaping Melody, Shaping Experience in and through the Old Hispanic Office’. University of Bristol
05/2011–05/2013 Researcher in ‘Musical Exchanges 1100–1650: The Circulation of Early Music in Europe and Overseas in Iberian and Iberian-Related Sources’. Manuel Pedro Ferreira, PI. CESEM Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2011–2013 Researcher in the ‘Music & Liturgy Group’ (with Daniel Saulnier and Yossi Maurey) ‘Musique et Musiciens dans les Saintes-Chapelles, XIIIe–XVIIIe siècle’. David Fiala, PI. Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance, Université François-Rabelais, Tours
2005–2007 Researcher on ‘RAPHAEL Project’ (Rhythmic and Proportional Hidden or Actual Elements in Plainchant: Computerized Census and Integral Restoration of a Neglected Musical Repertoire). Marco Gozzi, PI. Università degli Studi di Lecce, Italy

Peer review

At some point, I was peer reviewer for international journals, books, and European funding institutions (I can provide the full list upon request).

Moreover, I was

Invited to comment on an ongoing doctoral research project at the XV Workshop de Estudos Medievais. Faculdade de Letras. Universidade do Porto, 13-14/04/2023
Member of the Evaluation Committee for new courses at the Summer School (Escola de Verão) FCSH Universidade Nova Lisboa, 03/2023

Editorial tasks

04/2023- member of CESEM editorial committee
11/2022-present Review editor for the Portuguese Journal of Musicology new series (Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia nova série)
2011–present Coordinator of Monodic Sources and Development Coordinator (management, proof-reading, and data input) for the Portuguese Early Music Database
2012-2013 Founder of ‘Graduale Full-Text Database’, which later became Cantus Index with J. Kolacek. Data input and proofreading
12/2005-2006 Cantus Fractus Database RAPHAEL Project (Rhythmic and Proportional Hidden or Actual Elements in Plainchant). Proof-reading and data input

Professional membership

I am, or I was, member of:

COST ‘Source Studies’ Working Group

Società Italiana di Musicologia

Sociedade Portuguesa de Investigação em Música

The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society

American Musicological Society

International Musicological Society

Music Encoding Initiative

Music Encoding Initiative – Neume Interest Group

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