CURRICULUM VITAE

Instituto de Medicinal Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa

The mission of Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM) is to foster basic, clinical and translational biomedical research and innovation in this areas with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of disease mechanisms, developing novel predictive and diagnostics tests and developing new therapeutic approaches (FraLusoPark project - Dysarthria in Parkinson’s disease: Lusophony vs. Francophony comparison). My main tasks are pre: processing of speech materials and prosodic and intonational analysis, which contributes to the evaluation of modulation in physiologic parameters, markers of perception or psychosocial impact on dysarthric communication in Parkinson disease patients.

Professional positions

Laboratório de Fonética & Lisbon BabyLab, Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa

LabFon (Laboratório de Fonética) develops his action around three objectives: research, training support and community service. Investigation: action line in Forensic Phonetics, Language Resources and Theoretical and Phonology Laboratory. The InAPoP project (Interactive Atlas of the Prosody of Portuguese (PTDC/CLE-LIN/119787/2010) – financed by national funds through the FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC)), coordinated by Prof. Sónia Frota, aims to develop a prosodic interactive atlas of varieties of Portuguese (European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese as well as varieties of Portuguese spoken in Angola) contributing to the knowledge on variation and the development of prosodic studies.

Principal skills:

- responsible for the InAPoP's project database and its geographical organization and implementation;

- team member that conducts fieldwork and responsible for the data collection in Portugal (continent and islands);

- webmaster of LabFon’s platforms (Phonetics Lab, Lisbon BabyLab, InAPoP, FreP, EBELa and researchers personal pages) and Journal of Portuguese Linguistics.

[http://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/InAPoP/]

IARI's project (Interactive Atlas of Romance Intonation) is the first step towards the normalization of a prosodic annotation common to Romance Languages, taking into account the ToBI project (Tones and Break Indices).

[http://prosodia.upf.edu/iari/]

Dialectologia and Diacronia, Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa

Dialectologia and Diacronia’s group studies the linguistic variation in space and time, under different theoretical perspectives covering various areas of grammar. With the aim of increasing knowledge about Portuguese Language, the FLY project focuses on the historical context variation, with particular interest in the analysis of historical discourse and pragmatic. The project, coordinated by Prof. Rita Marquilhas, aims to issue letter of personal jurisdiction, in the XX century, written on war, migration, imprisonment and exile context.

ANAGRAMA, Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa

ANAGRAMA’s (grammatical e corpora analysis) works in adult grammar and the acquisition and development of Native Language (L1) and Non-native Language (L2). Child-Adult Interaction coordinated by Prof. Maria João Freitas aims at developing a database of speech production of children, aged between 0:10 and 3:07 years and adults. The alignment of the files, correspond to the phonetic and orthographic transcription of children speech and orthographic transcription of the adult speech, when interacting with children.

Associação Portuguesa de Linguística

Associação dos Bolseiros de Investigação Científica

Professional/Scientific Association membership

Avaliação/Acreditação de Ciclos de Estudos (Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior).

Evaluation comissions participation

Event participation

PaPE2015 - Phonetics and Phonology in Europe, 2015. UK: University of Cambridge.

ProVar – Workshop on Prosodic Variation, 2014. Portugal: University of Lisbon.

XXX Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, 2014. Portugal: University of Porto.

The 22nd Manchester Phonology Meeting, 2014. UK: University of Manchester.

XXIX Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, 2013. Portugal: University of Coimbra.

1st Workshop of the Project Interactive Atlas of the Prosody of Portuguese, 2013. Portugal: University of Lisbon.

Second Workshop on the Development of Prosodic Structure and Intonation, 2013. Portugal: University of Lisbon.

Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia, 2013. Portugal: University of Lisbon.

Workshop Advancing Prosodic Transcription for Spoken Language Science and Technology II, 2013. Portugal: University of Lisbon.

Frequency in Phonology, 2010. Portugal: University of Lisbon.

Job-related skills

High computer skills:

Praat: domain analysis software and sound editor;

EXMERaLDA - domain software;

domain of WaveSurfer and Audacity;

domain of Adobe PRO package;
knowledge of FrontPage;

Dreamweaver domain;

knowledge of mark-up language for creating web pages (XML);

ArcGIS for desktop;

ArcGIS online.

Full CV