From a young age music was a passion of mine, which led me to start learning about audio. As a teenager, I had my first experience in production recording demos for my band in Audacity.

I decided to study Music Technology and Audio Systems at the University of Huddersfield because the course contents were not only very appealing, but also incredibly diverse – just like the range of skills that can be found in the audio industry: from studio production to audio programming, from psychoacoustics to live music production, or from signal processing to sound design – these are all topics I had a chance to learn about in my undergraduate years.

For my placement year at Huddersfield, I completed a one-year internship at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), in Erlangen, Germany. I value my time at the IIS greatly, as I had the opportunity to work alongside exceptional audio professionals at a world-known institution that contributes immensely to the development of audio technologies. Spatial audio was the main theme during my internship at the IIS, with most of my work relating to their MPEG-H codec and its associated tools.

After graduating from Huddersfield with a first-class grade, I am currently studying an MSc in Audio and Music Technology at the University of York, where I aim to broaden my knowledge and continue to improve my skills. I still do some production work on the side with the bands I’ve met over the years, and recently got my first ever published work – an engineering brief based on my dissertation at Huddersfield that was published at the AES 151st Convention.

I am currently looking for job opportunities in Paris, France as I will move there once I complete my MSc course in September. I am particularly interested in roles involving signal processing, audio programming, acoustics and/or spatial audio, as I feel I could put the skills and knowledge I have gained throughout my studies to the service of audio technologies research and development.