Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Dr. Areti Andreopoulou is an Associate Professor in Music Technology at the Department of Music Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). She graduated from the Department of Music Studies of NKUA in 2005 and then attended the Masters and PhD programs in Music Technology at New York University in the USA, where she graduated in 2013. Her PhD thesis focused on the development of tools to ensure optimal auditory experience in virtual and augmented auditory reality (VR) environments.  She has also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the French research center CNRS from 2014-2016, conducting research on human auditory perception in virtual/mixed reality environments. Since 2018, she is a faculty member of the Department of Music Studies at NKUA, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses, supervises doctoral candidates, and conducts scientific research on topics pertaining to Music Technology.  She has participated as a researcher in numerous nationally funded research projects, such as ASMA, TRACCE, and WitheFlow, and she is the NKUA Principal Investigator  of the European Horizon  project SONICOM (Grant agreement # 101017743).  She has been a Fulbright Scholar, and her studies and research have been supported by grants from Audio Engineering Society Educational Foundation, Lillian Voudouri, Gerontelis, and Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She is also actively involved in the organization of international and domestic conferences, and serves as a reviewer of scientific publications related to the field of Music Technology.