She joined the School of Information Studies in 2005. She has been affiliated with CIRMMT, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology since 2003, where she served as Associate Director for Scientific and Technological Research from 2007 to 2009. She has been an Associate Member of the McGill Schulich School of Music since 2007. Dr. Guastavino received a Ph.D. in Psychoacoustics (audio information processing) from the University of Paris 6 within the Laboratoire d’Acoustique Musicale. She holds an M.Sc. in Music Technology from IRCAM – University of Aix-Marseille, and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from McGill. She received post-doctoral training in the fields of memory and cognition in the Psychology Department at McGill, and spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at CIRMMT.