His major scientific interest is in Algorithmic Composition, his book Algorithmic Composition: Paradigms of Automated Music Generation was published with Springer Wien/NewYork in 2009. 2011 he joined the Orpheus Research Center in Music (ORCiM) as a new research fellow. He acts as a reviewer for the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Computer Music Journal (CMJ) and the European Research Council (ERC). As the project leader of Patterns of Intuition he is responsible for management, administration, the overall project development and participates in the project's software design.