Dr Anna Troisi

Biography

Anna Troisi is an internationally recognised researcher, digital artist, and composer whose work develops a research programme in embodied and situated data practices. Her research examines how data can be experienced, interpreted, and enacted through sensory, participatory, and ecological approaches.

With a background spanning computer science, music, neuroscience, and nanotechnology, she brings a transdisciplinary perspective to the design of data-driven systems, focusing on how technological processes intersect with human experience, social relations, and environmental contexts.

At the core of this work is the Design for Change framework, which reconfigures HCI through relational and dialogic approaches. Integrating principles from Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Theory of Change, the Social Model of Disability, and ethical interdisciplinarity, the framework provides a methodological foundation for developing technologies that are situated, inclusive, and responsive to complex human and ecological conditions.

Her research explores how data can be translated into experiential and relational forms, with a particular emphasis on sound as a methodological medium. Through sonification, multisensory installation, and computational composition, she investigates how complex environmental, social, and geopolitical systems can be encountered through listening, offering alternative ways of engaging with questions of sustainability, conflict, and collective futures.

This includes projects such as COAAST (Coastal Aural Archive of Space and Time, 2023), which reimagines environmental and cultural heritage through participatory sound archives in coastal Kenya, and DAReS, a UKRI/AHRC-funded project embedding digital and ethical literacy in arts and humanities research.

Her compositional and computational practice forms part of this research programme, developing sonic approaches to embodied data, where linguistic and environmental data are transformed into musical structures through speech-to-score systems and algorithmic processes. Works such as Ómur (Republic of San Marino, 2025) and Milli svefns og vöku (Reykjavík, 2024) explore how data can be rendered as inhabitable sonic environments.

In works such as Hyperdrone #2, onde e sisma (2020), she explores the sonification of seismic data from global monitoring infrastructures, including those supporting the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. Through sound, these planetary-scale systems become experientially accessible, enabling audiences to engage with environmental and geopolitical change through listening rather than visual abstraction.


GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP


At the University of the Arts London, Anna is Reader in Creative Computing and Equitable Futures, Chair of the Research and Knowledge Exchange Ethics Sub-Committee (RKEESC), and a member of the Academic Board and Research Committee.

Her research leadership includes serving as REF Lead for Unit of Assessment 32 at the University of Greenwich and as Impact Champion and member of the REF leadership group at Bournemouth University, with experience in:
- research assessment,
- impact case studies,
- environment statements
- research capacity-building.



She led the development of SIGMA, a €3.5 million Horizon Europe proposal aimed at strengthening the integration of the social sciences and humanities with science, technology, engineering and mathematics in research and innovation. The proposed programme combines monitoring and evaluation, co-creation, capacity building and policy engagement to support meaningful interdisciplinary collaboration, with particular attention to how different forms of knowledge shape research priorities, methods and outcomes. Her role involved coordinating an international consortium, negotiating institutional responsibilities and integrating work packages while respecting partners’ distinct disciplinary expertise, translating her commitment to equitable collaboration into the design of a shared research and innovation programme.

She is also a member of the Society for Ethics, Politics, and Artificial Intelligence (SEPAI), EDI Chair for ACM Creativity and Cognition (2025–26), a National Teaching Fellow (2024), and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA).


EDITORIAL ROLES


- Member of the editorial board - The Journal of Creative Music Systems
- Associate Editor - The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies
- Reviewer – Media Practice and Education
- Editor - Body, Space & Technology Journal Palgrave's 'Studies in Performance and Technology'