Diego Alonso works as lecturer and researcher at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Ramón y Cajal Program). He studied Musicology at the Complutensian University in Madrid. He received his PhD in 2015 from La Rioja University with a thesis on the influence of Schoenberg’s music and aesthetics on Roberto Gerhard. He worked from 2018 to 2022 at Humboldt University, Berlin, as IP of the research project ‘Hanns Eisler in Republican Spain’. He is founder and leader (Sprecher) of the Fachgruppe “Deutsch-Ibero-Amerikanische Musikbeziehungen” of the German Musicological Society.  He has published in leading musicology journals including Acta musicologica, Twentieth-Century Music, Music Analysis, Journal of War and Culture Studies, and Musicologica Austriaca (Best Paper Award 2019). His areas of specialisation are 20th century musical modernism, musical analysis (including film music), the history of musical propaganda, and the performance of masculinities in / through music.