• Coordinator of the Lullabyte research project
• Professor of Systematic Musicology at TU Dortmund University since 2026
• Email: miriam.akkermann@tu-dortmund.de 

Research Interests:

• 20th- and 21st-century music, with a particular focus on computer music, mixed music, and music technology
• Musical performance practices and their development
• Archiving of musical works in the context of evolving digital storage media
• Sound as a carrier of information and an influencing factor (sound research in an interdisciplinary context)
• Music and sleep

PhD in the Lullabyte MSCA DN, now at TUDO working on the role of auditory space in music used for sleep. Tristan is from the UK and has a background in musicology and computer science, with particular research interests in twentieth-century music and culture.

PhD in the Lullabyte MSCA DN, now affiliated at TUDO with his project, as well as working at Endel Sound (Berlin). He is working on how adaptive generative soundscapes influence arousal regulation and sleep outcomes using home-based EEG and wearable data, combining approaches from music perception and sleep physiology. Bagmish is from India and has a background in psychology and cognitive science, with a particular interest in perception, consciousness and computational approaches to understanding the mind.

Coordination at Lullabyte MSCA DN. Besides that, Kim teaches musicology and interdisciplinary courses at Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin University of the Arts, and Macromedia University of Applied Sciences Berlin.

Research focus: intersections of experimental avant-garde, sound art, pop, techno/house, and hip-hop; aesthetic, technical and social aspects of the history of synthesizers, sequencers, samplers, and drum machines; philosophy of music.

PhD in the Lullabyte MSCA DN at KTH (SVE), on secondment at TUDO for the summersemester 2026, he is working on exploring the impact of sounds on sleep, and developing context aware personalised sonic interaction design tools to support sleep. Abhishek is from India and has a background in Sound and Music Computing and Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, with interest in Music Technology in general.

Student assistant in the Department of Systematic Musicology at TU Dortmund University. Melina is pursuing a B.A. in Music Journalism and is interested in the relationship between emotions, music, and the underlying psychological processes, as well as in music and media.

Master student at Radbound University (NL), Erasmus research student at Lullabyte for the summer semester 2026, working on her thesis examining the effect of music on dream experiences. Josephine is a Behavioural Science student with a background in psychology, and is interested in the mechanisms underlying music cognition, dreams and emotions.