Curriculum Vitae

Positions

• 2025–now Professor (Tenure-Track) of Computational Humanities, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
• 2021–now Senior Scientist & Principal Investigator, Fraunhofer IDMT (with IDMT since 2008; PI since 2018)
• 2022–2025 Postdoctoral researcher, International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (Prof. Meinard Müller)
• 2021–now Habilitation (in progress), Technische Universität Ilmenau
• 2012–2017 Research associate, DFG project “Jazzomat”, University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar
• 2010 Visiting researcher, Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Education

• 2014 Dr.-Ing. in Media Technology, Technische Universität Ilmenau (advisor: Gerald Schuller; magna cum laude)
• 2008 Diplom in Computer Engineering (Ingenieurinformatik), Technische Universität Ilmenau

Awards

• Best Paper Award, 15th Int. Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR), 2021 — Deep Learning-Based Music Instrument Recognition.
• Best Paper Award, 14th Int. Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR), 2019 — Towards Deep Learning Strategies for Transcribing Electroacoustic Music.

Editorial & Professional Service

• Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing (2022–present).
• Guest Editor, special issue “Recent Advances in Computational Sound Scene Analysis”, EURASIP JASMP (2021–2022).
• Reviewer for ICASSP, ISMIR, ICMC, DAFx, DCASE, and IS², and for IEEE/ACM TASLP, IEEE SPM, EURASIP JASMP, and JASA Express Letters.
• Organizer / co-chair of sessions and workshops at DAGA, Inter-Noise, ISMIR, AES, and the Internet of Sounds Symposium.

Patents

• Input Interface for Generating Control Signals by Acoustic Gestures (US9117429B2).
• Method and Device for Detecting Acoustic Anomalies (DE102020200946).
• Device, Method and Computer Program for Acoustic Monitoring of a Monitoring Area (US20210043193A1).
• System and Method for Assisting Selective Hearing (US20220159403A1).