Thibaut Carpentier is an R&D engineer at IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique), Paris. After studying acoustics at the Ecole Centrale and signal processing at the ENST Telecom Paris, he joined CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) and the Acoustics & Cognition Research Group in 2008. His research is focused on spatial audio, room acoustics, artificial reverberation, and computer tools for 3D composition and mixing. In recent years, he has been responsible for the development of Ircam Spat, he created the 3D mixing workstation Panoramix and he contributed to the design and implementation of a 350-loudspeaker array for holophonic sound reproduction in Ircam's concert hall.