Curriculum Vitae

Work experience

Lecturer and Coordinator of Music Technology (Jan 2019 - current)
School of Music, University of Auckland
Director of Research (July 2019- current)
School of Music, University of Auckland
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Feb 2016 - Jan 2019)
Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Feb 2015 - Feb 2016)
Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento

Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (Sep 2016 - Sep 2017)
Certificate in Learning and Teaching, Queen Mary University of London
PhD in Information and Communication Technologies (Nov 2010 - Jan 2015)
Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento
MSc in Intelligent and Multimedia Systems (Sep 2006, Dec 2009)
Dept. of Computer Science and Dept. of Medicine, University of Verona
MSc in Biomedical Data Processing and Medical Imaging (Jan 2007 - Jan 2008)
Dept.of Computer Science and Dept. of Medicine, University of Verona
BSc in Information Technology (Sep 2002- Dec 2006)
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Verona

[PI] – Faculty Research Development Fund (FRDF) (2019) – “Exploring Design Methods for Augmented Musical /instruments” – Awarded by the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries of the University of Auckland
[PI] – Seal of Excellence, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2017) – “Artificial Intelligence Augmented Instruments” – Awarded by the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation

Poster chair at Audio Mostly 2021, Trento (Italy)
Digital Frontiers chair at CHItaly 2021, Bolzano (Italy)
Demo chair at Audio Mostly 2017, London (UK)
Student Volunteer chair at COOP 2016, Trento (Italy)
Local chair at CHItaly 2013, Trento (Italy)
Session chair at:
- NIME 2019, Porto Alegre (Brazil)
- CIM 2018, Udine (Italy)
- CIM 2016, Cagliari (Italy)

I regularly serve in the program committee of several international conferences
I regularly review and metareview for HCI and Music
- journals (e.g. Frontiers: Performance studies, Arts, IJHCS, Transactions on Affective Computing, MDPI, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing)
- conferences (e.g. CHI, CSCW, NIME, SMC, Audio Mostly, CIM, DIS, INTERACT*, OZCHI, IDC, BritishHCI, CHITaly, AVI, IUI).

Honorable Mention award (top 5%) (2020) – “My Library Has Just Been Obliterated”: Producing New Norms of Use Via Software Update” by F. Morreale and M.Eriksson at CHI 2020
Italy Made Me Award Winner (2018) – Physics and Engineering field – prize in recognition of innovative research conducted by Italian researchers, who received part of their education in Italy and conducted research in a UK university
COLLAB Competition Winner (2018) —- Cembalo Scrivano (by Giacomo Lepri and Fabio Morreale) received the first price award for the Best Interactive Installation
Best paper award (2018) – “Democratising DMIs: the relationship of expertise and control intimacy” by R. Jack, J. Harrison, F. Morreale and A. McPherson at NIME 2018 (only 1 paper received this award)
Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews – at CHI 2020, CHI 2019, INTERACT 2019