Marcus Maeder

Prof Dr Marcus Maeder is an artist, researcher and composer of electronic music. As an author, Maeder has written on a number of topics in the fields of sound art, acoustic ecology, artistic research and digital media. Maeder studied Fine Arts in Lucerne, Philosophy in Hagen and completed his PhD in Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zürich. He has worked as an editor and producer for the Swiss radio station SRF and as a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) of the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK. Since 2025, he is leading the major KNOTS Kowledge to Society program at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Maeder is visiting scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Landscape and Snow Research WSL and fellow researcher at Freie Universität Berlin.