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Sølvi Ystad

Sølvi Ystad received her degree as a civil engineer in electronics from NTH (Norges Tekniske Høgskole), Trondheim, Norway in 1992 and her Ph.D. degree in acoustics from the University of Aix-Marseille II, Marseille, France, in 1998. She is currently a Researcher at the National French Research Center (CNRS) in the Laboratory PRISM (Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music) in Marseille, France. Her research activities are related to sound modeling with a special emphasis on the identification of perceptually relevant sound structures to propose intuitive user interfaces for controlling synthesized sounds.