Johan worked as a Research Fellow on the SONICOM project, where he looked at modelling individual user’s characteristics and responses with machine learning to enhance immersive audio. In the past, he has contributed to multiple national and international research projects on music information retrieval in Belgium, France and the UK. He has also taught subjects ranging from audio programming to big data processing at various London universities.

Johan is now a lecturer in the C4DM group at Queen Mary University of London.