Stefania Serafin

Stefania Serafin
Born	(1973-12-30) December 30, 1973 (age 50)
Nationality	Italian
Citizenship	Italy
Education	MA from IRCAM in 1997. PhD from Stanford University in 2004
Alma mater	PhD in Computer Based Music Theory and Acoustics from Stanford University
Occupation(s)	professor and researcher at Aalborg University
Employer	Aalborg University
Board member of	Project leader at NordicSMC and President at Sound and Music Computing Network

Stefania Serafin (born December 30, 1973) is a professor at the Department of Architecture, Design and Media technology at Aalborg University in Copenhagen.^[1]

Education

Stefania Serafin completed her master's degree in acoustics, computer science and signal processing applied to music, from IRCAM (Paris) in 1997.^[2] Following, she received her PhD in computer-based music theory and acoustics from Stanford University in 2004.^[3]

Career

In 2018, Stefania Serafin was employed as professor at the Department of Architecture, Design and Media technology at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. Before becoming a professor Serafin worked as an associate professor and lecturer, also at Aalborg University.^[4] As a researcher, her focus lies on sound models and sound design for interactive media and multimodal interfaces.^[1][5]

Serafin holds the position as president of the organization, Sound and Music Computing Network, which is a portal for the sound and music computing community.^[6] Also, she is the project leader of ‘The Nordic Sound and Music Computing Network (NordicSMC)’, which is a university hub for sound and music computing led by the fields internationally leading researchers from the Nordic countries.^[7]

Selected publications

·       F. Avanzini, S. Serafin and D. Rocchesso, "Interactive Simulation of rigid body interaction with friction-induced sound generation," in IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1073–1081, Sept. 2005.

·       Y. Visell, F. Fontana, B.L. Giordano, R. Nordahl, S. Serafin, R. Bresin, Sound design and perception in walking interactions, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 67, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 947–959.

·       R. Nordahl, S. Serafin and L. Turchet, "Sound synthesis and evaluation of interactive footsteps for virtual reality applications," 2010 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (VR), Waltham, MA, 2010, pp. 147–153.

·       L. Turchet, R. Nordahl, S. Serafin, A. Berrezag, S. Dimitrov and V. Hayward, "Audio-haptic physically-based simulation of walking on different grounds," 2010 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Saint Malo, 2010, pp. 269–273.

References

1. "Stefania Serafin". Aalborg University's Research Portal. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
2. "Dr. Stefania Serafin – ICAD2018". Retrieved April 27, 2020.
3. "Stefania Serafin | Department of Music". music.stanford.edu. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
4. "Aalborg Universitet København".
5. "Stefania Serafin Professor, Aalborg University Copenhagen". imi.aau.dk. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
6. "SMC Board". www.smcnetwork.org. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
7. "Nordic SMC – Nordic Sound and Music Computing Network, supported by Nordforsk". Retrieved April 27, 2020.