Leadership

Current Positions of Trust

2025-ongoing: Editorial Board Member, Research Studies in Music Education.

2020-ongoing: Editorial Board Member, Gifted Education International.

2020-2026: Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Music Education.

2018-ongoing: Editorial Board Member, Finnish Journal of Music Education.

2018-ongoing: Expert Evaluator & Rapporteur, European Commission.

2024-2028: Member of ISME’s Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician (CEPROM).

2024-ongoing: Steering Group Member of Sibelius Academy’s Research and Doctoral Education Chapter.

Supervision of Doctoral Dissertations

Responsible Supervisor: Li, C. (2025-current). “Aesthetic care in music education professionalism: An action research project in a specialist music program in Finland”. Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland).

Responsible Supervisor: Vähi, K. J. (2023-current). “Instrumental pedagogy in the context of political regime change: Systems view to Estonian music schools’ curricular adaptability”. Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland).

Responsible Supervisor: Snellman, A. (2019-current). “Workshop model for critically reflective practice of instrumental teachers: Promoting self-directedness in Finnish music schools”. Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland).

Co-Supervisor: Utermohl de Queiroz, D. (defended on 2024, November 5). “Fostering self-regulation in the online teaching and learning of string instruments”. University of Aveiro (Portugal).

Responsible Supervisor: Jääskeläinen, T. (defended on 2023, April 15). “Students’ experienced workload, stress, and coping in higher education. A multi-strategy research in Finland and the United Kingdom”. Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland).

Co-Supervisor: Rodríguez Cortés, P. (defended on 2022, November 28). “New didactic approaches to the context and musical meaning of repertoire for viola of the XX-XXI centuries”. Jaume I University, Castellón (Spain).

Dissertation & Thesis Committees

Opponent: Lam, F. (2024). “Coping and Resilience in Musicians: An exploration of the use of coping strategies and the development of psychological resilience among musicians”. Royal College of Music (UK). Doctor of Music.

Pre-Examiner: Gordon Herd, A. (2023). “Armed to face the future: An investigation into the portfolio careers of recently graduated pianists and whether tertiary education prepared them for twenty-first century life as working musicians”. Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland). Licentiate of Arts.

Opponent, Committee Chair & Pre-Examiner: Martínez Cantero, I. (2023). “Opportunities, environments, and trajectories implied in the motives of starting extracurricular music studies”. Faculty of Psychology, Madrid Autonomous University (Spain). Doctor of Social Psychology.

Pre-Examiner: Andreacchio, D. G. (2022). “Imaginative visions and musical communication: A critical examination of the piano pedagogical approach of Eleonora Sivan (b. 1941) as applied to the Preludes Op. 34 of Dmitri Shostakovich”. Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide (Australia). PhD Thesis.

Pre-Examiner: Yong, R. (2020). “Processes of applying Taubman technical interventions to advanced pianists”. Conservatorium of Music, The University of Western Australia (Australia). Doctor of Musical Arts.

Opponent: Baño, L. (2018). “Musical cultures. Analysis of the influence of the models of musical production in group practices”. Faculty of Psychology, Madrid Autonomous University (Spain). Doctor of Educational Psychology.

Opponent, Committee Chair & Pre-Examiner: Angel Alvarado, R. (2018). “The motivation of teachers in relation to arts-music education in primary schools: A study from the theory of self-determination”. Faculty of Psychology, University of Navarra (Spain). Doctor of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Academic Selection Committee Member

2025-2026: Profi 9 Recruitment, Professorship on Artist Pedagogy. Participated in shortlisting, assessment, interviewing, and decision-making processes for a professorship hire. Uniarts Helsinki.

2024-2025: Profi 9 Recruitment, Postdoc Researcher on Artist Pedagogy. Participated in shortlisting, assessment, interviewing, and decision-making processes for a postdoc fellowship hire. Uniarts Helsinki.

Awards & Honors

06.09.2024: Town Crier (i.e., illustrious daughter) of the festivities of my hometown. Honor granted for my professional trajectory by the City Council of Utiel, Spain.

29.03.2023: 3rd Prize at Science Night LIVE!’s Research Pitching Competition. Pitch title: “Caring for Musically Gifted Children”. Event funded by Tieteen tiedotus and jointly organised by E2 Research, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, and Heureka. Heureka, Vantaa (Finland). Award: 1.000€.

06.12.2022: Honorary Senior Fellowship, Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, Australia (honorary title).

14.09.2019: Prize Bankia for Musical Talent in the category of Best Music Researcher. Given by the Federation of Musical Societies of the Valencian Community (Spain), in collaboration with the bank Bankia and the Valencian Institute of Culture. Award: 20.000€ and a trophy.

06.06.2018: Extraordinary Doctorate Prize for the doctoral dissertation defended in 2014, Faculty of Psychology, Madrid Autonomous University, Spain (equiv. Best PhD Thesis for dissertations between 2013 and 2018, including the Prima Doctor distinction).

31.01.2018: Title of Docent (Associate Professor habilitation) in Music Education, Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland (nordic honorary title, lifetime achievement).

20.01.2014: PhD distinctions Summa Cum Laude and International Mention, Faculty of Psychology, Madrid Autonomous University, Spain.

Previous Positions of Trust

2024-2025: Member of the Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers’ Information field and open science -working group (FUURT).

2020-2024: Co-Editor in Chief of ISME’s & Sage’s Spanish language journal “Revista Internacional de Educación Musical” (RIEM).

2020-2024: Publications Standing Committee Member, International Society for Music Education (ISME).

2022-2024: Co-Chair of ISME’s Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician (CEPROM).

2022-2025: Member of the European Association of Conservatoires’ Artists as Makers in Society project, Capacity Building Working Group (AEC-ARTEMIS).

2019-2023: Vice-President, Spanish Association for Psychology of Music and Music Performance (AEPMIM).

2015-2019: Board Member, Spanish Association for Psychology of Music and Music Performance (AEPMIM).

Expert Evaluator: Italian Ministry for University and Research – MUR; Swiss Ministry for University and Research.

Editorial Board Member: Musicæ Scientiæ (2019-2021); Revista Internacional de Educación Musical (2016-2020).

Ad Hoc Reviewer: Routledge Music Books Series; Palgrave Macmillan; Learning and Instruction; Research Studies in Music Education; Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education; British Journal of Educational Psychology; Psychology of Music; Electronic Journal of Research in Education; Frontiers in Psychology; Journal of Artistic Research; Trio Journal; Revista Creatividad y Sociedad.