Christoph Finkensiep

Since 2017, Christoph is a doctoral researcher at the Digital andCognitive Musicology Lab. He obtained his Master's degree in CognitiveScience at the University of Osnabrück with a thesis entitled"A Formal Model of Voice Leading" (2017). His Bachelor in ComputerScience at the University of Paderborn was completed with a thesisthat addressed the problem of "Automatic Composition of SemanticWebservices" (2014).His current research focuses on computational modeling of musicalstructure. Further scientific interests include music cognition,probabilistic modeling and machine learning, artificial intelligence,as well as philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. In addition, heis an active trombonist and occassional arranger, composer, and conductor.