Scientific Advisory Board
Mike Friedrichsen is a Professor of Media Economics and Media Business at the Stuttgart Media University. He studied Business Administration, Political Economics, Journalism and Political Sciences in Kiel, Mainz and Berlin. He earned his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin in 1996 at the Institute of empirical Market and Communication Research. His main research interests are Media Management and Media Economics, Digital Radio and Television, Music Business, New Media Technologies und Business Communication. Mike Friedrichsen emphasizes transfer between the University and Economy and leads several Networking Organisations. He is author and editor of several books and has also published in different journals.
Dr. Klaus Frieler, born 1967, studied theoretical physics and mathematics in Hamburg and graduated 1997 with a diploma. After years working in the software industry, he finished his Ph.D. in Systematic Musicology in 2008 with a dissertation on mathematical models of melody cognition. He currently holds a position as a lecturer for Systematic Musicology at the University of Hamburg. Additionally, he also works as music expert witness (www.musikgutachten.de), scientific consultant and programmer. His main research interests are modelling of music cognition, music creativity, mathematical music theory, music information retrieval and popular music research.
Adrian North obtained his PhD in music psychology in 1996 from the University of Leicester and subsequently joined the faculty there. He was appointed Professor of Psychology at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh in 2007. His research concerns musical taste, the impact of music on juvenile delinquency, and the role of music in consumer behaviour. His book, The Social and Applied Psychology of Music (with David Hargreaves) was published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
Professor Charles Spence is the head of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University . He is interested in how people perceive the world around them. In particular, how our brains manage to process the information from each of our different senses to form the extraordinarily rich multisensory experiences that fill our daily lives. His research focuses on how a better understanding of the human mind will lead to the better design of auditory and multisensory products, brands, interfaces, and environments in the future. Charles has acted as a consultant for a number of multinational companies advising on various aspects of sensory design, including Unilever, Procter & Gamble, ICI, McDonalds, Starbucks, Quest, Firmenich, Britvic, Neurosense, and The Fat Duck restaurant.
Charles has published more than 350 articles over the last decade. He has been awarded the 10th Experimental Psychology Society Prize, the British Psychology Society: Cognitive Section Award, the Paul Bertelson Award, recognizing him as the young European Cognitive Psychologist of the Year, and, most recently, the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.
Dmitri Zakharine is a sociologist, historian and media scholar who currently works as a Senior Research Assistant at the Universities of Konstanz and Zurich. He obtained his PhD in linguistics from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (1995) and his habilitation degree in sociology and history from the University of Constance (2005). His main fields of interest are social anthropology, semiotics, film and sound design studies. His present book project is devoted to the evolution of ‘acoustic communities’ and the mediation of soundscapes in the 20th century.
