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Gunter Geiger

Gunter Geiger holds a MA in Telematics and Sound Engineering from the Graz University of Technology, Austria and a DEA in Audiovisual Communication from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. His interest in free software for music lead to his involvement in the AGNULA EC project. He is a pioneer in mobile music applications, being the main programmer and thinker behind the RjDj interactive mobile application. Being part of the university team who built the Reactable tangible synthesiser he is currently CEO of Reactable Systems in Barcelona.

Hugo Silva

Hugo Silva, MSc in Electrical and Computers Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon (UL). Since 2004, he is a researcher at the Pattern and Image Analysis (PIA) group at the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT); in 2012 he was a visiting researcher at the University of Florida, integrated in the Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory (CNEL), and collaborating with the Center for the Study of Attention and Emotion (CSEA). Hugo is a co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of PLUX, where he has participated in more than 10 national and European projects, funded by grants from the 7th Framework Programme (EU-FP7), the National Strategic Reference Framework (QREN/NSRF), and several other private and public institutions. His work has been recognised in several occasions, which include the nomination as a top talent for 2014 by Notícias Magazine, the selection as one of only 10 semi-finalists worldwide at the Engadget Expand New York Insert Coin 2013, and the Life Sciences Award in 2010 at a venture competition co-promoted by the MIT.

Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut

Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut obtained a PhD from Queen Mary University, studying human computer interaction in the field of music composition. He was Innovation Manager at Focusrite prior to joining ROLI in 2012, and is leading the product commercialisation and industry and academic partnerships at ROLI.

Xavier Boissarie

is the founder of Orbe, Senior Game Designer and project manager.

Sergi Jorda

Prof. Sergi Jordà, PI of this project, holds a B.S. in Fundamental Physics and a PhD in Computer Science and Digital Communication. He is a researcher in the Music Technology Group of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and a tenured Associate Professor at the same university, where he teaches computer music, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and interactive media arts. He has authored 20+ articles in journals and book chapters and 60+ peer-reviewed conference papers. He has received several international awards, including the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica. Best known as one of the inventors of the Reactable, a tabletop musical instrument that accomplished mass popularity after being integrated in Icelandic artist Bjork’s last world tour, he is also one of the founding partners of the spin-off company Reactable Systems. He has participated in 6 founded projects both from the EC and the Spanish government, and he is currently the IP of the STREP project ‘GiantSteps’ (FP7-610591).

Panos Papiotis

Panagiotis Papiotis received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Informatics Department of the Athens University in Economics and Business, Greece, in 2009, and the M.Sc. in Sound and Music Computing from the Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain in 2010. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Music Technology Group in Universidad Pompeu Fabra where he is carrying out research on computational analysis of ensemble music performance as well as multimodal data acquisition and organisation. He has participated in the FP7 project SIEMPRE (FP7-250026).