About SoniHED

The first SoniHED Conference was organized and chaired in 2014 by Sandra Pauletto and colleagues from the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York (https://www.york.ac.uk/c2d2/seminars/sonihed/). It brought together experts in the fields of sonification, sound design, health sciences and environmental science to evaluate and discuss novel sonic ways to engage with data from these fields. As a result, the Guest Issue on Data Sonification and Sound Design in Interactive Systems for the Journal of Human Computer Studies (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2015.08.005) was published.

The second edition of SoniHED took place in 2022 at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. You can find the programme and proceedings of the previous edition of SoniHED 2022 HERE.

Kira Vibe Jespersen, Aarhus University, Denmark

SoniHED Sound and Sleep Panel

Biography

Kira Vibe Jespersen, PhD, is MSc in psychology with an additional BA in Music Therapy. She holds a PhD in health sciences from Aarhus University, where she is currently Associate Professor at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Center of Excellence for Music in the Brain. Her research focuses on clinical applications of music with a particular interest in the effect of music on sleep and the use of music for insomnia. Using both behavioral and neuroimaging methods, she evaluates the effects of music for improving sleep as well as the potential neurophysiological mechanisms underlying these effects. In a related line of research, she is mapping the use of music as a sleep aid in the general population and use surveys and big data from Spotify and YouTube to investigate the universal and subgroup characteristics of sleep music.

Thomas Andrillon, Institute du Cerveau (ICM), Paris, France -

SoniHED Sound and Sleep Panel

Biography

I am a neuroscientist based in France, at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. I am part of the Mov'It research group and the "Sleep, Dreams and Consciousness" team (DreamTeam).

I hold a Bachelor in Life Sciences and did my Cognitive Neuroscience Master thesis in the laboratory of Prof Giulio Tononi and Prof Chiara Cirelli (University of Wisconsin at Madison), under the supervision of Prof Yuval Nir. I graduated from a PhD in Cognitive Sciences at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, under the supervision of Sid Kouider. I then moved to Australia to do a post-doc with Prof Nao Tsuchiya (Monash University) and Prof Joel Pearson (University of New South Wales).
I moved back in Paris in February 2021.

Miriam Akkermann, FU Berlin, Germany

SoniHED Sound and Sleep Panel

Biography

Miriam Akkermann is musicologist and sound artist. She received a PhD in musicology from the Berlin University of the Arts, and completed her habilitation at Bayreuth University. Her research areas include music of the 20^th and 21^st century, computer music and music technology, digital musicology, musical performance practices and archiving music. A special emphasis lies on examining the intersection of music research and artistic practice. Within the framework of “Lullabyte,” the researches focus is set on the effect of music on sleep.
Since April 2024, she holds the Ernst-von-Siemens endowed professorship for new music at FU Berlin.

Cecilia Katzeff, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

SoniHED Sound and Environmental Sustainability Panel

Biography

Cecilia Katzeff is an associate professor in human-computer interaction at the Dep. of Sustainable development, Environmental Science and Engineering, SEED, KTH and a faculty member of Digital Futures. Katzeff holds a PhD in psychology and her research focuses citizens’ role in the energy transition. It includes questions around how people relate to energy in their everyday life and how digital technology and policy development plays a role in this relationship. As the electricity system becomes more and more automated, Katzeff’s research also raises questions on how this affects our homes and the dynamics of households. Linked to this, the research explores the emerging phenomenon of energy communities as an engine in the energy transition, in urban as well as in rural areas of Sweden. Katzeff is on the board for the organization Sveriges Energigemenskaper and is the KTH project partner and part of the management group of Resistance and Power – Smart Grids for The Many People (Family Kamprad Foundation) – a research program collaboratively run by KTH, Chalmers, Lund University, Linköping University and Uppsala University.

(Photo by D. Bederoff)

Katharina Groß-Vogt, Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik - IEM, Austria

SoniHED Sound and Movement Panel

Biography

Katharina Groß-Vogt researches and teaches sonification and sonic interaction design, i.e. two interdisciplines combining her backgrounds in music and science. She is senior scientist at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM), University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria. Sonification research projects covered, e.g., physics, climate science, or physiotherapy. For her thesis Sonification of Simulations in Computational Physics she received the Award of Excellence of the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research 2010. Groß-Vogt served as a board member at the International Community of Auditory Display (ICAD) 2012-16 and is part of the Steering Board of the Audio Mostly Conference (since 2020). She runs the SIDlab at IEM with a focus both on sound and sustainability, see https://sidlab.iem.sh.

Mattias Höjer, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

SoniHED Sound and Environmental Sustainability Panel

Biography

Mattias Höjer is professor in Environmental Strategic Analysis and Futures Studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, since 2012. During 2008-2017 he was Director for a Vinnova Center of excellence, CESC, focusing on digitalization for sustainable development. He has been Program director for a doctoral program (Planning and decision analysis) the last ten years. Since beginning of his carrier he has been working on topics related to mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. His main areas have been buildings and transport, coming from a planning department. The use of digitalization for supporting mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions through a more efficient use of buildings and transport, thus supporting lower total volumes of both buildings and transport, has been a thread that can be traced in his research back to by PhD thesis, called “What is the point of IT?”.

Mattias was co-author of “Digital Reset” and member of the expert panel of D4S, Digitalization for Sustainability 2021-2022, who authored that reporthttps://digitalization-for-sustainability.com. Ha has also been involved in various groups for supporting policies striving for using digitalization for reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

Sofia Dahl, Aalborg University, Denmark

SoniHED Sound and Movement Panel

Biography

Sofia Dahl holds a PhD in Speech and Music communication from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology and currently affiliated with Aalborg University, where she is associate professor in music cognition.Originally with a background from electrical engineering and musicology, Dahl’s field of research has become increasingly transdisciplinary over time, spanning disciplines such as music psychology, music performance, movement and neuroscience, interaction design, and music acoustics. For the past five years she has collaborated with experts in neurorehabiltation to design sonification for motor learning.

Lanie Gutierrez-Farewik, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

SoniHED Sound and Movement Panel

Biography

Lanie Gutierrez-Farewik is Professor of Biomechanics at KTH Engineering Mechanics, the director of the Promobilia MoveAbility Lab, and the president of Swedish Society of Biomechanics. She has a background in engineering and medical science and nearly a decade of clinical experience with children and adults with motion disorders. She and her research group aim to revolutionize how we understand and assist human movement.

Frédéric Bevilacqua, IRCAM, Paris, FRANCE

SoniHED Sound and Movement Panel

Biography

Frédéric Bevilacqua is the head of the Sound Music Movement Interaction team at IRCAM in Paris, in the joint research lab on Science & Technology of Music and Sound between IRCAM – CNRS – Sorbonne Université. His research concerns the modelling and the design of interaction between human movement and sound, and the development of gesture-based digital musical systems. The applications range from artistic creation, education to health. Recent projects concerned learning processes, movement sonification and rehabilitation, and collective musical interactions.

SoniHED2025 welcomes the support of the Sound-Driven Design DRS SIG

https://www.designresearchsociety.org/cpages/sdd-sig 

SoniHED2025 welcomes the support of DIGITAL FUTURES

https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/