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

Antonia Folguera
Sónar + D

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

Enrico Daga
The Open University

Valentina Presutti
University of Bologna

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
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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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Paul Mulholland
The Open University
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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

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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Antonio Puglisi
Digital Paths
Ceo and Founder of Digital Paths. Degree in Computer Science, expert in communication, management and new media.
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Albert Meroño Peñuela
King’s College London
Leader of WP2. PhD in Computer Science, expert in multimodal knowledge graphs and Web data querying.
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Valentina Carriero
University of Bologna
PhD student in Computer Science; knowledge engineering and semantic web technologies.

Fabrizio Magnani
MiC-Ministry of Culture
Researcher; visual anthropologist, web developer.

Matia Terenzi
Digital Paths
Master’s Degree in Semiotics. Social media manager and Content Manager.
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Raphaël Fournier-S’niehotta
CNAM Paris
FACETS pilot leader. Expert in Information Retrieval, Data mining and Graphs, PhD in Computer Science.

Elena Musumeci
MiC-Ministry of Culture
BELLS Pilot Leader; etnoanthropologist and archivist.