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Anna Plaksin is currently a professor of Digital Methods in Music and Media Editing at KreativInstitut.OWL (Paderborn University). After studying musicology, media education, and philosophy in Mainz (Germany), was awarded her PhD in 2020 by the Technical University of Darmstadt for her dissertation “Models for the computational analysis of mensural music traditions. Empirical text studies in the context of phylogenetic methods”. She worked previously on the research projects “Interpreting the Mensural Notation of Music” (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University), “Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae” (Max Weber Foundation, Bonn), and “Virtual Research Infrastructure for the Humanities” (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz). Her research focuses on music encoding, corpus building, the development of software tools for interactive music scores, and the development of analytical methods for musical corpora.