People

Polifonia’s consortium and advisory board members.

Advisory board

Luca de Gennaro

Paramount Global

VP of Talent & Music at Paramount Global, radio personality at Radio Capital, music journalist, author of the book “Pop Life”, an essay on the music of the ‘80s (Rizzoli Lizard).
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Ruben Verborgh

Ghent University – imec, Belgium

Professor of Decentralized Web Technology.
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Elena Giglia

University of Turin

Dr. Elena Giglia, PhD, Master’s degree, is an expert on Open Science and FAIR principles. She helps in reviewing the Data Management Plan.
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Fabien Gandon

Inria

Research Director in Informatics and Computer Science at Inria and Leader of the joint Wimmics team at the Sophia-Antipolis Research Center (Université Côte d’Azur, Inria, CNRS, I3S).

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Antonia Folguera

Sónar + D

Curator of conferences, festivals and podcast/radio projects. Connecting the dots (and people) between digital culture, music, arts, science and technology.

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Cynthia Liem

Delft University of Technology

Professor at the Multimedia Computing Group of Delft University of Technology.
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Luc Steels

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Research professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), working in the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (IBE – UPF/CSIC) in Barcelona.
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Team

Andrea Poltronieri

University of Bologna

Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering focusing on music technology, music information retrieval and semantic web technologies.
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Rocco Tripodi

University of Bologna

Leader of WP4.

PhD in Computer Science, expert in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.

Enrico Daga

The Open University

Leader of the Technical Board; PhD in Computer Science; expert in Knowledge Graph technologies and infrastructures.

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Valentina Presutti

University of Bologna

Coordinator of Polifonia. PhD in Computer Science, expert in knowledge engineering and semantic web technologies.

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Marilena Daquino

University of Bologna

Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Bologna, in Polifonia she coordinates activities related to the web portal, such as musoW and MELODY.
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Mari Wigham

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Mari is a data engineer working on accessible and understandable archive metadata. In Polifonia she is involved in WP2 and INTERLINK.
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Max Tiel

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Within the Polifonia project I am working on bringing all the valuable research to users such as industry partners or consumers. By looking for new and creative ways to communicate and display the research results we bring AI and music into the world.
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James McDermott

University of Galway

WP3 Leader.
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Paul Mulholland

The Open University

Leader of WP5. Human Computer Interaction, Technology Enhanced Learning, Museum Technology.
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Fiorela Ciroku

University of Bologna

PhD student in Computer Science, specialized in knowledge engineering and semantic web technologies.

Chiara Veninata

MiC-Ministry of Culture

Digital archivist; expert in semantic web technologies.

Jacopo de Berardinis

King’s College London

INTERLINK pilot leader (Machine Learning, Music Technology).
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Marloes Bontje

Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision

Music historian & project lead. R&D communication for Polifonia.
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Marco Gurrieri

CNRS – Institut de recherche en musicologie, Paris

CNRS Research engineer in musicology. Expert in music analysis of the Renaissance period, in French fin de siècle operatic production, in digital musicology.

Roosmarijn de Groot

Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision

Product manager Heritage & Research. Roosmarijn has specific expertise in coordinating collaborative projects that use linked data and knowledge graphs to connect cultural heritage collections.
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