Delia arrived to Cork in 2013, looking to combine her strong background in engineering with her passion for music. This took her to join the MSc Music & Technology in Cork School of Music, CIT. Within this program, she developed auditory, technical and composition skills through the diversity of interdisciplinary modules and by participating in a varied range of hands-on activities such as field recordings for both music and film. She also collaborated with local artists and researchers through diverse projects of composition, studio recordings and sound installation design, such as Caoine sound project by Michelle Collins.
 
Focusing her interest on digital audio signal processing, she had the chance to meet Dr Derry FitzGerald around the time she had to make a choice for her master’s thesis subject. Derry is internationally known for his audio signal processing research, in particular on the topic of sound source separation, and is currently head of the CoRESMA research group  at CSM. He introduced Delia to this field and mentored her through her master project where she applied different sound source separation methods to de-noising of musical signals.
 
Inspired by the work in her thesis and the support of her CSM lecturers and mentor, she decided to continue her career applying for a PhD in Audio Signal Processing. After a year of work in the private sector as an R&D electronic engineer, she joined the Centre for Digital Music in Queen Mary University of London in 2015 as a PhD candidate of the FAST (Fusing Audio Semantic Technologies for Intelligent Music Production and Consumption) project funded by the EPSRC, , in collaboration with major universities and industry partners such as Abbey Road Studios and the BBC. Under the supervision of Mark Sandler and Sebastian Ewert, her research in signal processing methods for source separation in music production has already been peer reviewed and published in conference proceedings.