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Curriculum Vitae of Daniel Pressnitzer





Personnal Details

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Current Position

Research scientist employed by the CNRS. Experiments and modelling about temporal processing in the auditory system.


Education

1999-2000 Wellcome Trust research associate at the Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing (CNBH), Cambridge, England, working with Ian M. Winter.
1998-1999 Fyssen post-doc at the CNBH, working with Roy D. Patterson.
1994-1998 PhD. thesis of the Paris 6 University. Work done in the ``Musical Perception and Cognition'' laboratory, IRCAM, under the supervision of S. McAdams. Experiments and modelling on auditory roughness perception. Suma cum laude.
1993-1994 DEA (Master's degree) of Acoustics, Signal processing and Computer Science applied to Music (Atiam) at Paris 6 University. Honours.
1990-1993 Engineering degree at the École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs en constructions aéronautiques (ENSICA), Toulouse, France. Special subjects: Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, Real-Time Computing. Honours.
1988-1990 Mathématiques supérieures et spéciales at the Lycée P. de Fermat, Toulouse, France.
1988 A Levels in Mathematics and Physics. Honours.



Professional Experience

1996-200X Teaching in Psychoacoustics at graduate level.
1996-1997 Realisation of multimedia projects with the Centre National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, the FilmMuseum, Amsterdam.
1995 Teaching assistant in Mathematics, Paris 6.
03/93-06/93 Trainee at CAE Electronics, Montreal, Canada. Simulation of the control system of a power plant.
03/92-06/92 Research project on fuzzy logic. Stabilisation of an inverted pendulum.



Computing Skills

Languages Matlab, C, Java, Ada
OS Unix, Linux, Windows



Grants and Awards

2001-2004 Grant from the Cognition et traitement de l'Information program. Investigation of the 'Neural basis of the auditory continuity illusion'. Involves brain imaging (LENA, Paris), sub-cortical single units recording (Dept of Physiology, Cambridge, UK), tools for acoustic reproduction in MEG (LMA, Marseille).
2000 Prix Yves Rocard of the Société Française d'Acoustique.
1998 Fyssen Foundation post-doctoral grant.
1997 SWETS Distinguished Paper Award for the paper ``Influence of phase effects on roughness modelling'', ICMC 1997.
1994-1997 Recipient of a French Ministry of Research scholarship.


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