Luca Turchet is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Digital Music and co-founder of MIND Music Labs. His research interests span the fields of new interfaces for musical expression, human-computer interaction, perception, and virtual reality. He is also a musician and composer. He holds degrees with honors in Computer Sciences from University of Verona, Composition and Classical Guitar from Conservatory of Music of Verona, and Electroacoustic Music from the Royal College of Music of Stockholm. He received the Ph.D. in Sonic Interaction Design at the Media Technology Department of the Aalborg University Copenhagen. He is author and co-author of 53 papers and has been awarded of research grants from the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Danish Research Council, and the European Commission.