Dr Matthew Machin-Autenrieth is Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the Department of Music, University of Aberdeen and the Principal Investigator for the European Research Council-funded project ‘Past and Present Musical Encounters across the Strait of Gibraltar’ (2018–23). He is also Visiting Research Fellow at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge (until 2023). Matthew completed his masters and PhD in ethnomusicology at Cardiff University. Following his studies, Matthew was appointed as Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2014–17) and then Senior Research Associate (2018–20). Matthew joined Aberdeen in July 2020. For more information on Matthew’s research and publications, visit https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/matthew.machin-autenrieth/.