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Pantelis Vassilakis earned a Post Doctoral
Certificate in Auditory Science
(2003)
from the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA), Doctor of
Philosophy (2001) and Master of Arts (1997) degrees in Ethnomusicology,
specializing in Systematic Musicology (music cognition, acoustics, and
aesthetics) also from UCLA, and a Bachelor of Arts (1993) degree in Music
Composition and Technology from Kingston University, Surrey, England. He
has also completed course studies in physics and digital systems of
communication at the National Polytechnic of Athens, Greece.
Dr. Vassilakis has composed for the English National Ballet and the
London Chinese Orchestra and, since 1997, has been presenting at US
national and international conferences, publishing several abstracts,
articles, and book chapters and serving as reviewer for publications
that include the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, the
Journal of Comparative Physiology, the Computer Music Journal, and
Oxford University Press. Recognitions include awards from the
London Arts Board (1993), the National Training Council, UK (1994), and
the Acoustical Society of America (1999 & 2001).
Pantelis is currently the chairperson at
Columbia College’s Audio Arts and Acoustics department, Chicago, IL. His research interests include
cross-cultural dissonance perception, psychoacoustics, signal analysis, otoacoustic
emissions, sound localization, musical aesthetics, film music theory,
and assessment driven collaborative learning.
Pantelis lives in downtown Chicago with his wife, Maria E. Vassilakis, a biologist
(Goucher College) with a Masters degree in
Nursing (DePaul University), currently
working at Astellas Pharma Global Development.
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