curriculum vitae
General Information
Full Name | Clea Parcerisas |
Languages | Catalan (native), Spanish (native), English (C1), French (B1), Dutch (B2) |
clea.parcerisas@vliz.be | |
Location | Ostend, Belgium |
Education
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2016-2018 Barcelona, Spain
Master
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) - Master thesis. An ocean sound map along the track of a journey around the globe - Underwater soundscapes of the Great Coral Reef, at Laboratori d’Aplicacions Bioacustiques (LAB)
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2012-2016 Barcelona, Spain
Work experience
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2024-now Ostend, Belgium
Post-doctoral researcher
Flanders Marine Institute - Developing open source tools for marine bioacoustics analysis
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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
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2018-2019 Leuven, Belgium
Research assistant
imec - Developing acoustic lenses to diffract acoustic waves and obtain a desired 3D pressure distribution (acoustic holograms)
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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
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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
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2019-now pypam
- A package to process long-term underwater acoustics data
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2019-now pyporcc
- A python package to detect and classify porpoise clicks
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2019-now bpnsdata
- A python package to add environmental data from the north sea to times-space dataframes
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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
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01/2022 to 06/2022 6 months Master internship Quentin Hamard
- The eacoacoustics of the BPNS - International Master of Bioacoustics
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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
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09/2024 1 month visiting PhD researcher Svenja Woehle
- Separating Blue whale D calls from 40Hz Fin whale calls - Alfred Wegener Institute
Field Work
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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
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Instruments used
- RTSys
- SoundTrap (300, 600, STD and HF)
- SonoVault
- icListen
- B&K (Nexus amplifier + hyrophone 8104)
Artistic collaborations
- White Noise composition, by Stephanie Haensler (2020).
- Sonic Acts x FieldARTS Maritime Frictions, by Velma Spell (2021).
- Ear to Sea, by Cusk Collective (2022-2023).
- Voice of the North Sea, by Remco de Kluizenaar (2023).
- Calling in our Corals, by Google Arts & Culture (2023).
- De 11e Provincie, by the Instituut voor Onderzoek van de Betovering der Zeeën (2023 - ongoing)
- Waves of Resonance, by Elise Guillaume (2024 - ongoing). Project selected for the European Marine Board EMBracingtheOcean programme.