Michele Ducceschi
Project’s P.I.
Michele holds a degree in Physics from the University of Padova, Italy (2008), an MSc in Acoustics and Music Technology from the University of Edinburgh (2010), and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from ENSTA and Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France (2014).
He is now a lecturer at the University of Bologna, Italy. Prior to that, he was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2017) in the Acoustics and Audio Group, Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh, and a Royal Society Newton Fellow (2015), always within Reid School of Music. He was also part of the NESS project.
His current research interests lie at the intersection of advanced physical modelling sound synthesis, physics, computer science and applied mathematics. He is also a co-founder of Physical Audio Instruments.
Matthew Hamilton
PhD Student (2022-2025), then Postdoctoral Researcher
Matthew is a twice graduate from the University of Edinburgh, First for a BMus. in Music Technology (2010) and second for a MSc. in Acoustics and Music Technology (2017). Matthew’s Master’s thesis was on the topic of coupling Finite Difference Time Domain string and plate models . In between his degrees, Matthew apprenticed as a luthier in London. He specialised in the repair and refurbishment of acoustic and electric guitars.
In 2018 Matthew undertook the role of Digital Development technician at the Edinburgh College of Art where he specialised in teaching artists how to incorporate computer programming and electronics within their work. In particular his role focused on fabricating custom interfaces for digital music creation and authoring audio software in C / C++.
Dr Craig Webb
Postdoctoral Researcher
Craig has a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Bath, and an MSc in Acoustics from the University of Edinburgh.This was followed by a PhD, as a member of the NESS research group at Edinburgh (NExt-generation Sound Synthesis).His thesis concerned the application of high performance computing architectures to large-scale acoustics simulations with embedded instruments.He then began exploring real-time systems running on consumer processors, producing audio plugins based on physical modelling algorithms.
Alexis Mousseau
Visiting PhD Student
Alexis has a Bachelor of Physics from the University of Poitiers (2019) and Master’s of Wave Physics and Acoustics from Le Mans University (2021) during which he studied nonlinear wave propagation in architected materials.
Since 2022, his PhD works focuses on the nonlinear dynamics of thin plates, mixing theoretical modeling, numerical finite differences approaches and experimental works, with a final objective of using nonlinear phenomenas in the context of sound absorption.
Alexis’s work is currently funded by the Institut d’Acoustique Graduate School (IAGS)
Dr Henna Tahvanainen
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sebastian Duran
PhD Student (2022-2025), then Postdoctoral Researcher
Riccardo Russo
PhD Student (2021-2024), then Postdoctoral Researcher
Riccardo graduated in Physics in 2016 at University of Bologna. Later he attended a I level Master Course in Sound Engineering at University of Rome Tor Vergata.Here he graduated with a thesis on the development of a polyphonic guitar tuner.
After the Master course, he worked as a C++ developer at IK Multimedia company, which specialises in the development of audio plugins. Later, he received an M.Sc. in Engineering in Sound and Music Computing at the Aalborg University Copenhagen, where he worked on synthesis and physical modeling techniques based on Finite Difference Time Domain Methods.
He graduated with a thesis on the simulation and optimization of a plate reverb. He has been playing guitar as an amateur for 15 years, and has experience as a sound engineer.
