curriculum vitae

General Information

Full Name Clea Parcerisas
Languages Catalan (native), Spanish (native), English (C1), French (B1), Dutch (B2)
email clea.parcerisas@vliz.be
Location Ostend, Belgium

Education

Work experience

  • 2024-now

    Ostend, Belgium

    Post-doctoral researcher
    Flanders Marine Institute
    • Developing open source tools for marine bioacoustics analysis
  • 2019-2024

    Ghent, Belgium

    PhD underwater acoustics researcher
    Ghent University and Flanders Marine Institute
    • Marine Soundscapes in Shallow Water. Automated Tools for Characterization and Analysis
  • 2018-2019

    Leuven, Belgium

    Research assistant
    imec
    • Developing acoustic lenses to diffract acoustic waves and obtain a desired 3D pressure distribution (acoustic holograms)
  • 2016 - 2017

    Barcelona, Spain

    Research assistant
    Perception and Manipulation Lab at Instituto de Robótica Industrial (IRI)
    • Developing a C++ code for a project of energy efficiency and AI in elevators
  • 2014-2018

    Barcelona, Spain

    Music and saxophone teacher
    Public school CEIP Nabi
    • Teaching saxophone and music theory in a primary school, both individual and group classes

Developed software

  • 2019-now
    pypam
    • A package to process long-term underwater acoustics data
  • 2019-now
    pyporcc
    • A python package to detect and classify porpoise clicks
  • 2019-now
    bpnsdata
    • A python package to add environmental data from the north sea to times-space dataframes
  • 2019-now
    pyhydrophone
    • A python package to process hydrophone data in standarized and easy way

Programming skills

Programming languages high: Python, Matlab. medium: C, PHP, R, C++, javascript
Engineering software Ansys, COMSOL, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Inkscape
Bioacoustics software PAMGuard, MANTA, Raven Pro (and other open-source tools)
Version control git

Academic supervision

  • 01/2022 to 06/2022
    6 months Master internship Quentin Hamard
    • The eacoacoustics of the BPNS - International Master of Bioacoustics
  • 04/2023 to 08/2023
    4 months internship Simon Laurent
    • Develop tools to help understand/process/classify sounds measured in an underwater environment - Master Grenoble INP Phelma
  • 09/2024
    1 month visiting PhD researcher Svenja Woehle
    • Separating Blue whale D calls from 40Hz Fin whale calls - Alfred Wegener Institute

Field Work

  • Expeditions
    • Short 1 to 5 day trips to the Belgian Part of the Nort Sea with the RV Simon Stevin. See here
    • Drift measurements with the RHIB Zeekat and the sailing vessel Capoeira. 2020 and 2021.
    • Polarstern. Antarctic Expedition to maintain the Alfred Wegener Institute acoustic observatory (HAFOS). March and April 2022
  • Instruments used
    • RTSys
    • SoundTrap (300, 600, STD and HF)
    • SonoVault
    • icListen
    • B&K (Nexus amplifier + hyrophone 8104)