International Audio Laboratories Erlangen

Curriculum Vitae

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Dr.-Ing. Christof Weiß
International Audio Laboratories Erlangen
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Am Wolfsmantel 33
91058 Erlangen

Email: christof.weiss@audiolabs-erlangen.de
Office: Room 3C4.03
Phone: +49 9131 85 20542
Fax: +49 9131 85 20524

Recent Positions

01/2021 – 12/2021 Visiting Researcher (DFG Research Fellowship), Audio Data Analysis and Signal Processing group, University Télécom ParisTech, France. Cooperating partner: Prof. Geoffroy Peeters
09/2015 – present Research Assistant, Semantic Audio Processing, International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
10/2012 – 07/2015 Research Assistant, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT), Ilmenau, Germany

Education

2017 PhD (Media Technology), University of Technology Ilmenau, Supervisor: Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg Computational Methods for Tonality-Based Style Analysis of Classical Music Audio Recordings
2012 Concert Diploma (Composition), University of Music Würzburg (Tobias P. M. Schneid)
2012 Physics Diploma, University of Würzburg
2011 Music Diploma (Composition), University of Music Würzburg (Prof. Heinz Winbeck)
2006 Abitur, Max-Reger-Gymnasium Amberg

Scholarships

10/2012 – 08/2015 Fellow of the Foundation of German Business (sdw) PhD program
05/2007 – 03/2012 Fellow of the Foundation of German Business (sdw) study program

Prizes and Awards

10/2018 KlarText award for science communication of the Klaus Tschira Foundation. The award-winning article "Das ist Haydn. Ganz sicher!" was distributed as a supplement to German newspaper DIE ZEIT. See also here
04/2013 Composition competition Festival Pablo Casals, Prades (France), 2nd prize for the piece "shading a changeable timeframe" for violin, french horn, clarinet, cello, and piano
10/2011 Youth Cultural Advancement Award (Kulturförderpreis) of the city of Amberg, Germany

Research Stays

01/2021 – 12/2021 Research stay at Audio Data Analysis and Signal Processing group, University Télécom ParisTech, France, with Prof. Geoffroy Peeters
11/2014 Research stay at Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, UK, with Dr. Matthias Mauch and Dr. Simon Dixon
01/2014 – 02/2014 Research stay at Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, UK, with Dr. Matthias Mauch and Dr. Simon Dixon
05/2011 – 08/2011 Research stay at Instituto di Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) Valencia, Spain, with Dr. Martin Hirsch