About me
Franz Zotter received an M.Sc. degree in electrical and audio engineering from the University of Technology (TUG) in 2004, a Ph.D. degree in 2009 and a venia docendi in 2023 from the University of Music and Performing Arts (KUG) in Graz, Austria. He joined the Institute of Electronic Music an Acoustics (IEM) of KUG in 2004 as research assistant, became senior scientist in 2008, got on tenure track (Ass.Prof.) in 2019 and was awarded tenure (Assoc.Prof.) in 2023, and became acting deputy head of IEM in 2024. His interests include Ambisonics and spatial audio applications in music and virtual reality. Franz is a member of the AES, German Acoustical Society (DEGA), and German Tonmeister Society (VDT). In 2012, Franz was awarded DEGA’s Lothar Cremer medal.
