Emilios Cambouropoulos studied Physics (University
of Athens), Music (Conservatory of Attiki and Glyfada) and
Music Technology (MSc, University of York). He obtained his PhD in 1998 on Artificial
Intelligence and Music at the University
of Edinburgh (title of thesis: Towards
a General Computational Theory of Musical Structure). He worked for one year (1998-1999) as
a research associate at King’s
College London on the musical data-retrieval project ‘Musical Similarity and Melodic Recognition’. From 1999-2001 he was employed at the
Austrian
Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Vienna working on the project ‘Artificial Intelligence
Models of Musical Expression’. Currently, he is a full-time assistant professor on Musical Informatics at the Department of Music Studies,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has published numerous refereed papers in scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.