We are happy to announce that a recent hiring of AD:MT, Assistant Professor Hendrik Purwins, has joined the Audio Analysis Lab! We welcome Hendrik to the fold and look forward to years of fruitful collaborations.

After concluding his studies in mathematics at Bonn and Münster universities, Hendrik Purwins was awarded a Ph.D. on machine learning and musical signal processing with a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (given only to the best 0.5 % students at German universities) after studying at Berlin Institute of Technology (BIT), CCRMA, Stanford, and the Psychology Dept. of McGill University. Since, he has been guest professor, senior researcher, and lecturer at Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, and guest researcher at IRCAM, Paris, and Neurotechnology Group / Berlin Brain Computer Interface, BIT. In 2013, he became Assistant Professor at Aalborg University Copenhagen. He has (co-)authored more than 70 scientific papers, has received 10 personal research grants and prizes, and has lead research teams in 3 European projects. Starting with playing the violin at age of 7, he has played several string quartet and orchestra concerts during his mandatory military service with the professional German head quarters chamber orchestra. His research interests include signal processing, machine learning, and experimental methods (psychological and EEG experiments) for models of sound and music and their application to resynthesis, visualization, user adaptation, and non-Western music.