Luca Turchet

Luca Turchet is an associate professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento, where he leads the Creative, Intelligent and Multisensory Interactions Laboratory. He holds master degrees in computer science from the 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 a PhD in media technology from Aalborg University Copenhagen. He is co-founder and strategic advisor of the music tech company Elk Audio. He is the founding president of the Internet of Sounds Research Network, and is the Chair of the IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on the Internet of Sounds. His scientific, artistic, and entrepreneurial research has been funded by several research grants including a Marie-Curie individual fellowship, a grant of the Danish Council for Independent research, as well as grants from the European Innovation Council, European Space Agency, European Institute of Innovation and Technology and the Italian Ministry for University and Research. His research interests include new interfaces for musical expression, musical metaverse, networked music performance systems, extended reality, haptic technology and multisensory interaction. He is the coordinator of the European project MUSMET whcih deals with the emerging field of the Musical Metaverse.