Biography:

PRESENTER: Dr. Luca Turchet is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento, Italy, where he directs the Creative Intelligent and Multisensory Interactions Laboratory (https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/). He received master’s degrees (summa cum laude) in Computer Science from University of Verona, in classical guitar and composition from the Music Conservatory of Verona, and in electronic music from the Royal College of Music of Stockholm. He received the Ph.D. in Media Technology from Aalborg University Copenhagen. His scientific, artistic, and entrepreneurial research has been supported by numerous grants from different funding agencies including the European Commission, the European Innovation Council, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, the European Space Agency, the Italian Ministry of University and Research, and the Danish Research Council. He is co-founder of the music-tech company Elk Audio. He is the Chair of the IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on the Internet of Sounds (a technical committee of the IEEE Communications Society) and the founding president of the Internet of Sounds Research Network. Since 2025 he is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer. He is author and co-author of more than 170 papers focusing on music technology, extended reality, Internet of Things, human-computer interaction and multisensory perception. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Access and the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, and has been guest editor for the IEEE Transactions on Haptics, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Technology and Society, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Frontiers in VR, and Digital Creativity. He is the coordinator of the project "Musical Metaverse made in Europe" funded by the European Innovation Council (https://musmet.eu/).