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 University of Oldenburg. Since 2020, Kai directs 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. His research interests comprise music perception of hearing-impaired listeners, music psychoacoustics, and computational auditory scene analysis. 

• 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 

• 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.