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.
is the founder of Orbe, Senior Game Designer and project manager.
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).
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).
Sebastián Mealla C. (M) holds a B.S. in Audiovisual Communication and a MSc. in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media (CSIM). He is a PhD candidate in the Music Technology Group (MTG) of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, and member of the Musical and Advanced Interaction team (MTG-UPF). Mealla’s research work focuses on Human-Computer Interaction and Physiological Computing. In 2008, he received the MAEC- AECID scholarship to pursue his research on neuroscience and HCI at UPF and, since then, has obtained the support of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (TEC2010) and of Starlab Living Science for the development of Brain-Computer Interfaces for multimodal interaction.
