Miriam Akkermann

Miriam Akkermann is a musicologist and sound artist. Her research interests include 20th- and 21st-century music, computer music and music technology, digital musicology, research on musical performance practices, and music archiving. She is the research coordinator of the MSCA DN Lullabyte, an interdisciplinary project investigating the effects of music on sleep. Akkermann studied flute and music and new technologies in Bolzano, Italy, as well as audio communication and composition in Berlin. In 2014, she earned her Ph.D. in musicology from the Berlin University of the Arts and completed her habilitation at the University of Bayreuth in 2023.

Her artistic activities span the fields of sound art, contemporary improvisation, and composition; her sound installations, electroacoustic music works, and electronic live performances have been presented at international festivals. From 2019 to 2024, she held the junior professorship in Empirical Musicology at TU Dresden. In the summer semester of 2024, she assumed the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Professorship at Freie Universität Berlin. Since the summer semester of 2026, she has held the professorship in Systematic Musicology at TU Dortmund.