Tobias Gerber is a research associate at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Basel and directs the program Sound: Auditory Cultures and Sonic Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts. His research and teaching focuses on sound and listening cultures and their media conditions. He is the author of the book Listening in Radiophonic Spaces: Politics and Aesthetics of Early British Broadcasting (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), as well as co-editor of the anthology Radiophonic Materials, ed. with Ute Holl and Jan Philip Müller (Kehrer, 2024), and the volume I.B.5. of the Friedrich Kittler Werkausgabe, ed. with Ute Holl (Merve, forthcoming 2027). He is the co-founder and co-curator of the electronic music festival Zwei Tage Strom in Zurich and co-curator of the festival for current music Close Encounters, which takes place in Switzerland and Georgia.