Kai Siedenburg is a researcher interested in the perception of sound and music. He studied mathematics and musicology in Berlin, Berkeley, and Vienna, and in 2016 obtained a PhD from McGill University in Montreal. Subsequently, Kai was Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. From 2020 onwards, Kai directed the Oldenburg Music Perception and Processing Lab as a Freigeist fellow of the VolkswagenFoundation. He is co-editor of the 2019 Springer Handbook of Auditory Research volume on "Timbre: Acoustics, Perception, and Cognition". In 2020, Kai received the Lothar Cremer Award from the German Acoustical Society in Acoustics. Since 2022, he is a principal investigator in the DFG Collaborative Research Centre "Hearing Acoustics" and elected member of Die Junge Akademie. Since 2023, he is Associate Editor of The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. In Dec 2023, he started as a Professor of Communication Acoustics at Graz University of Technology (but remains affiliated with the Oldenburg Lab). 

• Music perception and cognition
• Auditory scene analysis
• Hearing impairment 
• Music signal processing

• PhD in Music Technology, McGill University, Montreal, May 2016
• MSc (Diplom) in Mathematics (major) and Musicology (minor), Humboldt University Berlin, Jan 2012
• Visiting student in Mathematics, University of Vienna, 2011
• Fulbright visiting student in Music and Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley,  2008-2009 

• Associate Editor, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
• Elected Member, Die Junge Akademie, 2022-2027
• Lothar-Cremer Price of the German Acoustical Society (DEGA), 2020
• Freigeist Fellowship, Volkswagen Foundation, 2020-2025
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship, H2020 Reintegration Panel, 2018-2020
• Best Paper Award (1st prize), 20th Int. Conf. on Digital Audio Effects (DAFX), Edinburgh, UK, 2017
• Harman Scholar, Audio Engineering Society (AES) Educational Foundation, 2013-2015
• Fulbright Scholar, J. William Fulbright Commission, 2008-2009
• German National Academic Foundation, 2005-2011

For a complete list of publications, see here.