Ilaria Fusani

Ilaria Fusani, born in 1992, studied Arts and Communication in Pisa from 2012 to 2016, where she focused on music history and music librarianship. She developed her Bachelor thesis on music cataloguing (“Music cataloguing: analysis of the methodological evolution and comparative exam of the main catalogues”) during the internship at the University libraries of Pisa. The Bachelor´s degree was followed by a Master´s degree in Musicology and Music Heritage in Bologna from 2016 to 2019. During her Master, she specialized in music palaeography and medieval music. Her Master thesis focused on the 12^th-century Ravennate notation sources at the Library of Music of Bologna (“Ravennate notation fragments in the International Museum and Library of Music of Bologna”). Since April 2021, she is a fellow in the Graduate School 2212 "Dynamics of Conventionality (400–1550)". Her doctoral project on the evolution of the Italian notations between the 11^th and 12^th centuries is conducted as part of the Cotutela agreement between the University of Cologne and the University of Pavia. The research is supervised by Prof. Dr. Frank Hentschel (University of Cologne), Prof. Dr. Rodobaldo Tibaldi (University of Pavia), and Prof. Dr. Andreas Haug (University of Würzburg).

Since her successful graduation (winter term 2025/26), Ilaria Fusani has held a postdoctoral position at the University of Pavia.