Paula Andrea Pérez-Toro, M. Sc.

2024

Journal Articles

• Tayebi Arasteh S., Arias-Vergara T., Perez Toro PA., Weise T., Packhäuser K., Schuster M., Nöth E., Maier A., Yang SH.:
  Addressing challenges in speaker anonymization to maintain utility while ensuring privacy of pathological speech
  In: Communications Medicine 4 (2024), Article No.: 182
  ISSN: 2730-664X
  DOI: 10.1038/s43856-024-00609-5
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Conference Contributions

• Hernandez A., Perez Toro PA., Arias-Vergara T., Vasquez-Correa JC., Yang SH., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Maier A.:
  Anonymizing Dysarthric Speech: Investigating the Effects of Voice Conversion on Pathological Information Preservation
  27th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2024 (Brno, CZE, September 9, 2024 - September 13, 2024)
  In: Elmar Nöth, Aleš Horák, Petr Sojka (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2024
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-70566-3_14
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• Perez Toro PA., Dineley J., Kaczkowska A., Conde P., Zhang Y., Matcham F., Siddi S., Haro JM., Bruce S., Wykes T., Bailón R., Vairavan S., Dobson RJ., Maier A., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR., Narayan VA., Hotopf M., Cummins N.:
  LONGITUDINAL MODELING OF DEPRESSION SHIFTS USING SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
  49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2024 (Seoul, KOR, April 14, 2024 - April 19, 2024)
  In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings 2024
  DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447195
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2023

Authored Books

• Rios-Urrego CD., Escobar-Grisales D., Moreno-Acevedo SA., Perez Toro PA., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
  Automatic Pronunciation Assessment of Non-native English Based on Phonological Analysis
  Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023
  ISBN: 9783031404979
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40498-6_30
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• Weise T., Maier A., Demir K., Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Heismann B., Nöth E., Schuster ME., Yang SH.:
  Impact of Including Pathological Speech in Pre-training on Pathology Detection
  Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023
  ISBN: 9783031404979
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40498-6_13
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Conference Contributions

• Weise T., Maier A., Demir K., Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Heismann B., Nöth E., Schuster M., Yang SH.:
  Impact of Including Pathological Speech in Pre-training on Pathology Detection
  TSD 2023: Text, Speech, and Dialogue (Pilsen, September 4, 2023 - September 6, 2023)
  In: Kamil Ekštein, František Pártl, Miloslav Konopík (ed.): Text, Speech, and Dialogue, Cham: 2023
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40498-6_13
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• Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Braun F., Hönig F., Tobón-Quintero CA., Aguillón D., Lopera F., Hincapié-Henao L., Schuster M., Riedhammer K., Maier A., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
  Automatic Assessment of Alzheimer's across Three Languages Using Speech and Language Features
  24th International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2023 (Dublin, IRL, August 20, 2023 - August 24, 2023)
  In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023
  DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-2079
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• Hung H., Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Maier A., Nöth E.:
  Speaking Clearly, Understanding Better: Predicting the L2 Narrative Comprehension of Chinese Bilingual Kindergarten Children Based on Speech Intelligibility Using a Machine Learning Approach
  Interspeech 2023 (Dublin, August 20, 2023 - August 24, 2023)
  In: Interspeech 2023 2023
  DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-2057
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• Weise T., Perez Toro PA., Deitermann A., Hoffmann B., Demir K., Straetz T., Nöth E., Maier A., Kallert T., Yang SH.:
  Multi-Modal Biomarker Extraction Framework for Therapy Monitoring of Social Anxiety and Depression Using Audio and Video
  International Conference on Machine Learning (Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Healthcare) (Hawaii Convention Center, 1801 Kalākaua Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815, United States, July 29, 2023 - July 29, 2023)
  In: Andreas K. Maier, Julia A. Schnabel, Pallavi Tiwari, Oliver Stegle (ed.): International Conference on Machine Learning (Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Healthcare), Cham: 2023
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47679-2_3
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• Perez Toro PA., Rodriguez Salas D., Arias Vergara T., Bayerl SP., Klumpp P., Riedhammer KT., Schuster M., Nöth E., Maier A., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
  Transferring Quantified Emotion Knowledge for the Detection of Depression in Alzheimer’s Disease Using Forestnets
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (Rhodes Island, June 4, 2023 - June 10, 2023)
  In: ICASSP 2023 2023
  DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095219
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• Gallo-Aristizabal JD., Escobar-Grisales D., Rios-Urrego CD., Perez Toro PA., Nöth E., Maier A., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
  Assessment of Handwriting in Patients With Parkinson's Disease Using Non-Intrusive Tasks
  20th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2023 (Cartagena, COL, April 18, 2023 - April 21, 2023)
  In: Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2023
  DOI: 10.1109/ISBI53787.2023.10230617
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• Braun F., Perez Toro PA., Bayerl SP., Pérez-Toro PA., Hönig F., Lehfeld H., Hillemacher T., Nöth E., Bocklet T., Riedhammer K.:
  Classifying Dementia in the Presence of Depression: A Cross-Corpus Study
  24th International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2023 (Dublin, IRL, August 20, 2023 - August 24, 2023)
  In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023
  DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1997
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• Arias Vergara T., Londoño-Mora E., Perez Toro PA., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR., Maier A.:
  Measuring Phonological Precision in Children with Cleft Lip and Palate
  24th International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2023 (Dublin, August 20, 2023 - August 24, 2023)
  In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023
  DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-2099
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2022

Authored Books

• Perez Toro PA., Klumpp P., Vásquez-Correa JC., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Arias Vergara T.:
  50 Shades of Gray: Effect of the Color Scale for the Assessment of Speech Disorders
  Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022
  ISBN: 9783031162695
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-16270-1_29
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Journal Articles

• Perez Toro PA., Rodriguez Salas D., Arias Vergara T., Klumpp P., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR., Maier A.:
  Interpreting acoustic features for the assessment of Alzheimer's disease using ForestNet
  In: Smart Health 26 (2022), Article No.: 100347
  ISSN: 2352-6483
  DOI: 10.1016/j.smhl.2022.100347
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• Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Klumpp P., Vásquez-Correa JC., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
  Depression assessment in people with Parkinson's disease: The combination of acoustic features and natural language processing
  In: Speech Communication 145 (2022), p. 10-20
  ISSN: 0167-6393
  DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2022.09.001
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• Carvajal-Castano HA., Perez Toro PA., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
  Classification of Parkinson's Disease Patients-A Deep Learning Strategy
  In: Electronics 11 (2022), Article No.: 2684
  ISSN: 2079-9292
  DOI: 10.3390/electronics11172684
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• Muneton-Santa G., Escobar-Grisales D., Orlando Lopez-Pabon F., Perez Toro PA., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
  Classification of Poverty Condition Using Natural Language Processing
  In: Social Indicators Research (2022)
  ISSN: 0303-8300
  DOI: 10.1007/s11205-022-02883-z
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• Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Klumpp P., Vásquez-Correa JC., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR.:
  Depression assessment in people with Parkinson's disease: The combination of acoustic features and natural language processing
  In: Speech Communication 145 (2022), p. 10-20
  ISSN: 0167-6393
  DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2022.09.001
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• Perez Toro PA., Rodriguez Salas D., Arias Vergara T., Klumpp P., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Maier A.:
  Interpreting acoustic features for the assessment of Alzheimer's disease using ForestNet
  In: Smart Health 26 (2022), Article No.: 100347
  ISSN: 2352-6483
  DOI: 10.1016/j.smhl.2022.100347
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Conference Contributions

• Hernandez A., Perez Toro PA., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR., Maier A., Yang SH.:
  Cross-lingual Self-Supervised Speech Representations for Improved Dysarthric Speech Recognition
  Interspeech (Seoul, September 18, 2022 - September 22, 2022)
  In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2022 2022
  DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10674
  URL: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2022/hernandez22_interspeech.html
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• Kordowich G., Lorz T., Jaworski M., Klumpp P., Perez Toro PA., Gaube S., Kereit M., Böhme K., Nöth E., Jäger J.:
  Erdschlusserkennung basierend auf Künstlichen Neuronalen Netzen
  12. VDE ETG-/FNN-Tutorial Schutz- und Leittechnik (Berlin, June 21, 2022 - June 22, 2022)
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• Perez Toro PA., Klumpp P., Hernandez A., Arias Vergara T., Lillo P., Slachevsky A., García AM., Schuster M., Maier A., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
  Alzheimer's Detection from English to Spanish Using Acoustic and Linguistic Embeddings
  23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022 (Incheon, September 18, 2022 - September 22, 2022)
  In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022
  DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10883
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• Schäfer P., Perez Toro PA., Klumpp P., Orozco Arroyave JR., Nöth E., Maier A., Abad A., Schuster M., Arias Vergara T.:
  CoachLea: an Android Application to Evaluate the Speech Production and Perception of Children with Hearing Loss
  23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022 (Incheon, KOR, September 18, 2022 - September 22, 2022)
  In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022
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• Schäfer P., Pérez Toro PA., Klumpp P., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Nöth E., Maier A., Abad A., Schuster M., Arias Vergara T.:
  CoachLea: an Android Application to Evaluate the Speech Production and Perception of Children with Hearing Loss
  23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022
  URL: https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85140086069∨igin=inward
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• tom Dieck T., Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Nöth E., Klumpp P.:
  Wav2vec behind the Scenes: How end2end Models learn Phonetics
  23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022
  DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10865
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• tom Dieck T., Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Nöth E., Klumpp P.:
  Wav2vec behind the Scenes: How end2end Models learn Phonetics
  23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022 (Incheon, September 18, 2022 - September 22, 2022)
  In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022
  DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10865
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2021

Journal Articles

• Klumpp P., Arias Vergara T., Vásquez-Correa JC., Perez Toro PA., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Batliner A., Nöth E.:
  The Phonetic Footprint of Parkinson's Disease
  In: Computer Speech and Language 72 (2021)
  ISSN: 0885-2308
  DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2021.101321
  URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0885230821001169
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• Perez Toro PA., Vasquez Correa J., Bocklet T., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR.:
  User State Modeling Based on the Arousal-Valence Plane: Applications in Customer Satisfaction and Health-Care
  In: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2021)
  ISSN: 1949-3045
  DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3112543
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Conference Contributions

• Perez Toro PA., Vasquez Correa J., Arias Vergara T., Klumpp P., Sierra-Castrillón M., Roldán-López ME., Aguillón D., Hincapié-Henao L., Tóbon-Quintero CA., Bocklet T., Schuster M., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Nöth E.:
  Acoustic and Linguistic Analyses to Assess Early-Onset and Genetic Alzheimer's Disease
  ICASSP 2021-2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
  DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9414009
  URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9414009
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• Perez Toro PA., Vásquez-Correa JC., Arias Vergara T., Klumpp P., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR.:
  Emotional State Modeling for the Assessment of Depression in Parkinson’s Disease
  24th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2021 (Olomouc, CZE, September 6, 2021 - September 9, 2021)
  In: Kamil Ekštein, František Pártl, Miloslav Konopík (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2021
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83527-9_39
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• Vasquez Correa J., Arias Vergara T., Klumpp P., Perez Toro PA., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Nöth E.:
  End-2-End Modeling of Speech and Gait from Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: Comparison Between High Quality Vs. Smartphone Data
  ICASSP 2021-2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
  DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9414729
  URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9414729
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• Perez Toro PA., Bayerl S., Arias Vergara T., Vasquez Correa J., Klumpp P., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Riedhammer K.:
  Influence of the Interviewer on the Automatic Assessment of Alzheimer’s Disease in the Context of the ADReSSo Challenge
  22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021 (, August 30, 2021 - September 3, 2021)
  In: Proc. Interspeech 2021 2021
  DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1589
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• Klumpp P., Bocklet T., Arias Vergara T., Vasquez Correa J., Perez Toro PA., Bayerl S., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Nöth E.:
  The Phonetic Footprint of Covid-19
  Interspeech 2021 (, August 30, 2021 - September 3, 2021)
  In: Proc. Interspeech 2021 2021
  DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1488
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2020

Journal Articles

• Orozco-Arroyave JR., Vasquez Correa J., Klumpp P., Perez Toro PA., Escobar-Grisales D., Roth N., Ríos-Urrego CD., Strauß M., Carvajal-Castaño HA., Bayerl S., Castrillón-Osorio LR., Arias-Vergara T., Küderle A., López-Pabón FO., Parra-Gallego LF., Eskofier B., Gómez-Gómez LF., Schuster M., Nöth E.:
  Apkinson: the smartphone application for telemonitoring Parkinson's patients through speech, gait and hands movement
  In: Neurodegenerative Disease Management (2020)
  ISSN: 1758-2024
  DOI: 10.2217/nmt-2019-0037
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• Perez Toro PA., Vasquez Correa J., Arias Vergara T., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR.:
  Nonlinear dynamics and Poincare sections to model gait impairments in different stages of Parkinson's disease
  In: Nonlinear Dynamics 100 (2020), p. 3253-3276
  ISSN: 0924-090X
  DOI: 10.1007/s11071-020-05691-7
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Conference Contributions

• Klumpp P., Arias Vergara T., Vasquez Correa J., Perez Toro PA., Hönig FT., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR.:
  Surgical mask detection with deep recurrent phonetic models
  21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2020
  DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1723
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2019

Conference Contributions

• Vásquez-Correa JC., Klumpp P., Arias-Vergara T., Strauss M., Küderle A., Roth N., Bayerl S., García-Ospina N., Perez Toro PA., Parra-Gallego LF., Rios-Urrego CD., Escobar-Grisales D., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Eskofier B., Nöth E.:
  Apkinson: A mobile solution for multimodal assessment of patients with Parkinson's disease
  20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Crossroads of Speech and Language, INTERSPEECH 2019 (Graz, September 15, 2019 - September 19, 2019)
  In: Gernot Kubin, Thomas Hain, Bjorn Schuller, Dina El Zarka, Petra Hodl (ed.): Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2019
  DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-8003
  URL: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2019/abstracts/8003.html
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• Perez-Toro PA., Vasquez Correa J., Strauß M., Orozco Arroyave JR., Nöth E.:
  Natural Language Analysis to Detect Parkinson's Disease
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27947-9_7
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• Pérez-Toro PA., Vasquez Correa J., Strauß M., Orozco Arroyave JR., Nöth E.:
  Natural Language Analysis to Detect Parkinson’s Disease
  22nd International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2019 (Ljubljana, September 11, 2019 - September 13, 2019)
  In: Kamil Ekštein (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2019
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27947-9_7
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2018

Conference Contributions

• Perez Toro PA., Camilo Vasquez-Correa J., Arias-Vergara T., Garcia-Ospina N., Rafael Orozco-Arroyave J., Nöth E.:
  A Non-linear Dynamics Approach to Classify Gait Signals of Patients with Parkinson's Disease
  5th Workshop on Engineering Applications (WEA) (Medellin, COLOMBIA, October 17, 2018 - October 19, 2018)
  In: APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCES IN ENGINEERING, WEA 2018, PT II, BERLIN: 2018
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00353-1_24
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2024

• Paula Andrea Perez Toro: Taukadial Challenge (Interspeech 2024) – 2024
• Paula Andrea Perez Toro: Summa Cum Laude PhD Thesis (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) – 2024

2023

• Paula Andrea Perez Toro: Travel Grant (Interspeech) – 2023

2020

• Paula Andrea Perez Toro: Scholarship for exchange students (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)) – 2020

2019

• Paula Andrea Perez Toro: Research Intership (Bayerische Hochschulzentrum für Lateinamerika (BAYLAT)) – 2019
• Paula Andrea Perez Toro: "Estudiante Instructor" Best Admission Exam for Master's degree (Univesity of Antioquia) – 2019

2018

• Paula Andrea Perez Toro: Best Bachelor degree projects (University of Antioquia) – 2018