Toon van Waterschoot (Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, from KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, in 2001 and 2009, respectively. He is currently a Professor and Consolidator Grantee of the European Research Council. He has previously also held teaching and research positions with the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands and the University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland. His research interests include signal processing, machine learning, and numerical optimization, applied to acoustic signal enhancement, acoustic modeling, audio analysis, and audio reproduction. He has been the Scientific Coordinator for several major European research projects: the FP7-PEOPLE Marie Curie Initial Training Network Dereverberation and Reverberation of Audio, Music, and Speech (DREAMS, 2013-2016), the H2020 ERC Consolidator Grant The Spatial Dynamics of Room Acoustics (SONORA, 2018–2023), and the H2020 MSCA European Training Network Service-Oriented Ubiquitous Network-Driven Sound (SOUNDS, 2021–2024). He has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society and for the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Music, and Speech Processing. He is the Director of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), a Member of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Acoustic, Speech and Music Signal Processing, and a Founding Member of the EAA Technical Committee in Audio Signal Processing. He was the General Chair of the 60th AES International Conference in Leuven, Belgium (2016), and has been serving on the Organizing Committee of the European Conference on Computational Optimization (EUCCO 2016), the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2017), and the 28th and 29th European Signal Processing Conferences (EUSIPCO 2020 and 2021). He is a Member of EURASIP, ASA, and AES.