Cristina Scuderi has obtained the Habilitation im Fach Musikwissenschaft at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz and the italian Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale at the rank of Associate Professor in Music History. She was also appointed guest professor at the University of Graz and served as adjunct professor at the Universities of Roma 3 and Udine. After her PhD and diplomas in organ, harpsichord and electronic music, she worked at the Universities of Fribourg (CH) and Stuttgart (DE), collaborating with the Universities of Vienna, Udine, Florence, Venice, Padua, several Italian Conservatories, and the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. In her work, she has been supported and received research grants and scholarships from a wide variety of organisations including the Ministero degli Affari Esteri (on the national swiss project "Musik aus Schweizer Klöstern"), DAAD (Annual Grant and Re-invitation grant, University of Bayreuth), SAIA, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Società Filarmonica di Trento, Associazione per lo Studio dell’Ebraismo nelle Venezie, Accademia Bizantina, Centro Studi Avellaniti, the Bogliasco Foundation and Cini Foundation. She has also been active as a freelance journalist (pubblicista). In 2006 she qualified as “Expert in the management and enhancement of musical heritage” (Regione Veneto – Fondazione Levi). Furthermore she has obtained the Willems music education diploma and has participated in several masterclasses with international musicians, playing in various concerts, as a soloist and with different ensembles. Since 2005 she has been co-managing the International Composition Competition Città di Udine” and the “Contemporanea” New Music Festival. The events enjoy the support of the President of the Italian Republic and have received the premio di rappresentanza of the Italian Senate and the Camera dei Deputati. They are also patronaged by the European Commission - RNI, Unesco CNI and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs among others. Cristina Scuderi received a nomination to the Lehrpreis 2019/2020 of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Her last project "Transmission of Musical Knowledge, Instrumental and Compositional Practices in Eighteenth-Century European Violin Playing: the Case of Tartini's School of Nations in Light of its Transnational Networks" obtained a start up funding from the University of Graz and has been submitted as a WEAVE Project to the Austrian Fund for Scientific Research (FWF). Her last monograph "The Management of Opera (1861-1918). Theatres of the Eastern Adriatic" is focused on reconstructing the production system of opera in Eastern Adriatic theatres in the period between 1861 and 1918, with special consideration given to the network between impresari, theatre directors, singers, musicians and editors. The book is printed by Böhlau in its English version and by LIM in its Italian version. (2024 - )