Team

Michele holds a degree in Physics from the University of Padova, Italy (2008), an MSc in Acoustics and Music Technology from the University of Edinburgh (2010), and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from ENSTA  and Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France (2014).

He is now a lecturer at the University of Bologna, Italy. Prior to that, he was a  Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2017) in the Acoustics and Audio Group, Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh, and a Royal Society Newton Fellow (2015), always within Reid School of Music. He was also part of the NESS project.

His current research interests lie at the intersection of advanced physical modelling sound synthesis, physics, computer science and applied mathematics. He is also a co-founder of Physical Audio Instruments. 

Craig has a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Bath, and an MSc in Acoustics from the University of Edinburgh.This was followed by a PhD, as a member of the NESS research group at Edinburgh (NExt-generation Sound Synthesis).His thesis concerned the application of high performance computing architectures to large-scale acoustics simulations with embedded instruments.He then began exploring real-time systems running on consumer processors, producing audio plugins based on physical modelling algorithms.

Henna has a Bachelor’s degree in Theoretical Physics from University of Helsinki (2009), and Master's (2012) and PhD (2021) degree  in Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing from Aalto University. She has previously worked as a research engineer on acoustic guitars at Yamaha, Japan, as an acoustic consultant specialised on ground-born vibration modelling and measurement, and as a part-time lecturer in Digital Signal Processing and Acoustics at UniArts Helsinki.  

Henna is passionate about understanding, modelling, and improving all kinds of string instruments. A large part of her work has been on the measurement and modelling of the string instrument bodies with Finite Element Methods. She is a hobbyist kantele player. 

Henna’s work is currently funded by the Finnish postdoc pool. 

Dario has a degree in Electronic Engineering from University of Bologna, Italy (2007), and holds a PhD in Acoustics from the same University (2011).

His work is aimed to increase acoustic comfort in performance, learning and working spaces.  
Starting from 2011, he served as a member of CT002/SC1/WG7 of Italian Technical Committee (UNI), which released local standards on classroom acoustics (UNI 11532-2:2020) and office acoustics (UNI 11532-3). 

As a part-time consultant, he contributed  to the refurbishment of some historical venues, such as Galli opera house (Rimini, 2015-18), Torri dell'acqua auditorium (Budrio, 2008-09), Fulgor historical cinema (Rimini, 2017), San Pietro Cathedral (Bologna, 2021), Bonci (Cesena, 2021-) and Rossini (Pesaro, 2020-21) theatres, and many minor others.

He is now lecturer of Vehicle Acoustics at UniBo.

Riccardo graduated in Physics in 2016 at University of Bologna. Later he attended a I level Master Course in Sound Engineering at University of Rome Tor Vergata.Here he graduated with a thesis on the development of a polyphonic guitar tuner.

After the Master course, he worked as a C++ developer at IK Multimedia company, which specialises in the development of audio plugins. Later, he received an M.Sc. in Engineering in Sound and Music Computing at the Aalborg University Copenhagen, where he worked on synthesis and physical modeling techniques based on Finite Difference Time Domain Methods.

He graduated with a thesis on the simulation and optimization of a plate reverb. He has been playing guitar as an amateur for 15 years, and has experience as a sound engineer.

Matthew is a twice graduate from the University of Edinburgh, First for a BMus. in Music Technology (2010) and second for a MSc. in Acoustics and Music Technology (2017). Matthew's Master's thesis was on the topic of coupling Finite Difference Time Domain string and plate models . In between his degrees, Matthew apprenticed as a luthier in London. He specialised in the repair and refurbishment of acoustic and electric guitars.
In 2018 Matthew undertook the role of Digital Development technician at the Edinburgh College of Art where he specialised in teaching artists how to incorporate computer programming and electronics within their work. In particular his role focused on fabricating custom interfaces for digital music creation and authoring audio software in C / C++.

Alexis has a Bachelor of Physics from the University of Poitiers (2019) and Master’s of Wave Physics and Acoustics from Le Mans University (2021) during which he studied nonlinear wave propagation in architected materials. 

Since 2022, his PhD works focuses on the nonlinear dynamics of thin plates, mixing theoretical modeling, numerical finite differences approaches and experimental works, with a final objective of using nonlinear phenomenas in the context of sound absorption.

Alexis’s work is currently funded by the Institut d’Acoustique Graduate School (IAGS)

Sebastian completed his Bachelor degree in Music Technology in 2019 at Solent University, Southampton, with a thesis concerning acoustics design criteria for higher education learning environments. In 2020 he obtained his MSc in Applied Acoustics from the same University with a thesis focused on perceptual and objective comparisons among geometrical acoustics software. In 2021 he completed a specialization course in Acoustics at University of Bologna while he started a freelance collaboration as graduate acoustician for a variety of projects, ranging from building to architectural and environmental acoustics within an acoustics engineering firm leaded by Eng. Enrico Manzi. Since 2021 he is a board member at the EAA-Young Acousticians Network (YAN) and has experience as sound engineer.   

Lorenzo is a project manager at the University of Bologna, Italy. His background ranges from plant biotechnology to science journalism. He worked as fixer and freelance journalist for Wired, Motherboard, Galileo and Maker Faire Rome since 2012. He co-wrote a handful of chamber role-play games.