Marc Leman is a Methusalem Research Professor in Systematic Musicology and Director of IPEM, the institute for psychoacoustics and electronic music at Ghent University, Belgium. He is a pioneer in the foundations of embodied music interaction paradigm. He published more than 350 articles, and eight books with MIT Press, Routledge, and Springer. He is laureate of the five-yearly FWO Excellence Award Ernest John Solvay for Humanities (2015), and member of the advisory committee of Science Europe (since 2016). His lab is an international meeting place for researchers working on expressive interaction with music, using embodied and action theory as a point of departure.