Paulo de Assis is an artist-researcher in music with expertise in piano, experimental performance practices, composition, and music philosophy. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant “Posthuman Music: Creative Practices after AI and Blockchain” (2025-2030). He is a Senior Research Fellow at Orpheus Institute (Ghent), where he leads a research group on experimental creative practices at the intersection of performance, composition, advanced technologies, music and contemporary philosophy. Additionally, he is an elected member of the Research Council at the Swiss National Foundation for Science (2022-2030). In addition to his artistic practice documented in this Research Catalogue page, Paulo de Assis has published extensively, including the monograph "Logic of Experimentation: Rethinking Music Performance through Artistic Research" (2018), the co-edited volumes “Artistic Research: Charting a Field in Expansion” (Roman & Littlefiled 2023), “Decentralized Music. Exploring Blockchain for Artistic Research” (2024), and several articles on original concepts, such as “Hypermusic", “Music 2.0", and “Posthuman Music”.