Alicia Fornés

Alicia Fornés received her B.S. degree from the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) in 2003 and her Ph.D. degree from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2009. Her PhD work on writer identification of old music scores received the best thesis award 2009-2010 from the AERFAI (Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition Spanish Association).

She is currently a Senior Research Fellow ("Ramon y Cajal" Fellow) in computer vision at the UAB, and an attached researcher at the Computer Vision Center (CVC).

She is member of the International Association for Pattern recognition (IAPR). Since 2011, she is the newsletter editor of the IAPR TC-10 (“Technical Committee 10 on Graphics Recognition”), and since 2015, she is also the IAPR TC-10 Educational Officer. She has done several research stays abroad, including the University of Bern (Switzerland), the University of La Rochelle (France), the Osaka Prefecture University (Japan) and Uppsala University (Sweden).

She has participated in several research projects (including European projects) and technology transfer projects, being the principal investigator of some of them. She has published more than 75 papers in international conferences and journals. According to Google Scholar, she has an h-index=17 and her publications have more than 850 citations. She has been the advisor of several Ph.D. works and master-thesis.

Her research interests include historical document image analysis, handwriting recognition, optical music recognition and writer identification.