Affiliations
Professor
Privatdozent
Visiting Professor
(starting April 2026)
Professor
Privatdozent
Visiting Professor
(starting April 2026)
INSIEME
Together Towards a Common European Energy Data Space
PI, initiator and project coordinator, € 16 Mio.
EDDIE
European Distributed Data Infrastructure for Energy
PI, initiator and project coordinator, € 8 Mio.
ECLIPSE
Energy Consumption reduction based on Open-source Reference framework
Co-PI, € 5 Mio.
O. Hödl: An electronic engineering approach for turning a Lego brick piano into a musical instrument. In: IEEE Access, vol. 12, 2024, pp. 51319–51329.
Science Communication: Der Standard (Archived), YouTube
O. Hödl, A. Rafetseder, P. Hu, F. Kayali: STEAM for non-novice STEM students with Digital Musical Instruments. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Audio Mostly Conference 2022, pp. 179–186.
Science Communication: Wiener Zeitung (Archived), YouTube
O. Hödl: ‘Blending Dimensions’ when Composing for DMI and Symphonic Orchestra. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2019, pp.198–203.
Science Communication: ORF (Archived), YouTube
Together Towards the Common European Energy Data Space
Horizon Europe Innovation Action Project on Energy Data Spaces
Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
A Digital Musical Instrument with 10.000 Volts and 30.000 °C
A LEGO brick-based tabletop sequencer for musical performances
A new STEAM course developed for cross-disciplinary university teaching
A music computing learning application for everyone and everywhere
STEM education for school students using Digital Musical Instruments
The Smart Subtitle Solution to augment opera performances
The brick-built Lego Grand Piano made playable as a synthesizer
Bass drum smiley visualisation for concerts with kids
Developing fully functioning brick-built interactive systems
Annual two-day hackathon for new ideas around music and technology
Art-based Research / Ars Electronica Festival 2017 Opening Performance
Design of technology-mediated audience participation in live music
Educational mobile app for a technology-centred social event
Digital Europe project on energy consumption reduction
Mixed Reality installation with chemistry, sonification and smartphones
Mobile app to augment way-finding pillars for urban mobility
Tablet-based digital health game application for older adults
A new digital music instrument played with gestures and breath
Tactile, wireless rhythm training devices for music and stroke therapy
Wireless heartbeat sensor kits for a ballet performance
Autonomous sound robot performance with audience participation
Interactive sound performance using ultrasound-controlled smartphones
The interactive Audience Sensor Kit for participatory media installations
Collaborative Stereo Control with Smartphones
User Experience (UX) design of a tablet app for disaster relief forces
Gamification approach to raise energy awareness of bitcoin mining
Energy consumption data sonification to raise citizens' awareness
PREventive Care Infrastructure based On Ubiquitous Sensing
An interoperability framework for existing and future IoT platforms
Universal Controller for Musical Performances
A capacitive and LED augmented acoustic guitar
Converting a former UX lab to a remote teaching studio during Covid-19
Interactive experiences for opera live streaming
Song and performance for audience participation with a big balloon
Brahms adapted for Trombosonic and symphonic orchestra
Immersive and interactive 70-minute music performance
Film music composition for Novemberlichter
Album and single releases as composer, singer or musician
"Hödl is very motivated.
Clear structure at the beginning."
"He is very enthusiastic and passionate about the subject area."
"The lecture was very well prepared
in terms of didactics."
"I like how the professor and tutors have cooperated with us and how they have explained the lectures, they were clearly in what they said."
"I really enjoyed Dr. Hödl's presentation [..] how he has incorporated both elements from his previous lecture as well as practical examples from his own projects."
"Dr Oliver Hödl greatly motivated the course participants through his own evident enthusiasm for the project."
"Awesome teacher who really cares about his students!"
"The topic is interesting, and the whole course is much more practical and interactive than other courses."
"Thanks a lot for the interesting use of the flipped classroom concept."
I am a computer scientist, professor, and independent musician. My research focuses on the design, architecture, development, and evaluation of information technology (IT), combining human-centred and data-driven approaches, with applications in energy, education, music, and beyond. With over 100 publications and IT releases, I have led projects worth €24M. As a musician, I have performed in 100+ concerts, composed 30+ pieces, and released four albums. My current academic affiliations are:
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
Professor
University of Vienna
Privatdozent
Technical University of Denmark
Visiting professor (starting April 2026)
Before my academic career I worked as a software engineer, studied informatics, musicology and philosophy, and as a freelance musician. Previous affiliations and employers were:
Academic and research institutions:
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
TU Wien
The Open University, UK
University of Nottingham, UK
Middlesex University London, UK
SAE Institute Wien
Industry:
Sun Microsystems (now Oracle)
Cashpoint Agentur & IT-Service
ORF Medienforschung
