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1998
Master's degree (Mgr.) in Mathematics
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2002
Master's degree (Mgr.) in Musicology at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
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2006
PhD in Musicology at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
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2008
Research fellow at Yale University, USA; currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, teaching music theory, music analysis, and systematic musicology (including musical acoustics, music psychology, and computer music for musicologists)
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2008, 2011
Guest lectures at Texas State University, Yale University, New Orleans, and the University of Graz
RNDr. Marek Žabka, PhD. is a Slovak musicologist and university lecturer. His research focuses on the systematics of musicology and mathematical music theory, with an emphasis on scale theory and neo-Riemannian theories.
He is the editor of the proceedings Matematika a hudba (Mathematics and Music) and the author of several scholarly studies in musicology and mathematics, published in English, German, and Slovak. Marek Žabka is also a member of the editorial board of the prestigious Journal of Music Theory (Yale, USA).
As an external lecturer, he teaches at the Department of Musicology at Comenius University in Bratislava. In addition to his academic work, he has worked professionally as a project manager in the IT sector.