Michele Ducceschi

From 2021 to 2026 I was the Principal Investigator of NEMUS, an ERC project on the physical modelling and sound synthesis of historical musical instruments that can no longer be played. It produced some fifty publications, free and commercial music software, and an augmented keyboard on display at the Museo San Colombano in Bologna. Its legacy continues with CORDIMUS, the Inter-University Centre for the conservation and digitisation of musical instruments, of which I am a co-founder.

Previously I was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2017) and a Royal Society Newton International Fellow (2015) in the Acoustics and Audio Group at the University of Edinburgh, within the NESS project.

I work on:

- Physical modelling sound synthesis of acoustic instruments
- Numerical solution of partial differential equations in acoustics
- Room acoustics simulation
- Musical interfaces for heritage preservation
- Nonlinear dynamics and wave turbulence