
ABOUT ME
As part of my Ph.D research, I have developed the luminance-texture-mass (LTM) framework for timbral semantics. I then worked as a research associate at the computational creativity project COINVENT that was funded by the European Commission. My responsibilities were to empirically evaluate the CHAMELEON melodic harmonisation assistant that was developed as part of the project. I have also been supported by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) with a two-year post-doctoral grant to investigate the complex interaction between musical timbre and other musical parameters (e.g., harmony, melody, rhythm) towards inducing musical tension.
I have recently founded Soundpear whose mission is to enrich gustatory and olfactory experiences through sound and music pairing.

EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Music perception & cognition
2009 - 2013
Queen Mary University of London - Centre for Digital Music (C4DM)
Doctor of Philosophy
Musical semantics & extra-musical meaning formation
Auditory perception & psychoacoustics
Computational creativity evaluation
2008 - 2009
City, University of London
MSc in Music and Media Technologies
2001-2008
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Electrical and Computer Engineering
1990-2007
State Conservatory of Thessaloniki
Cello Degree
Audio signal processing