Johan Sundberg studied musicology at Uppsala University, Sweden. After dissertation he founded a research group for music acoustics at KTH and was awarded a personal chair in Music Acoustics there in 1979. The singing voice and the theory underlying music performance have been his main research themes. He has published more than 370 scientific articles and the book The Science of the Singing Voice. He also wrote a book on the acoustics of musical sounds ("The science of musical sounds", 1991) and was the editor and co-editor of many monographs. He has many years of experience in musical performance as a choir singer and singer-soloist. He is honorary doctor at the York University, UK, the University of Athens, Greece, and in University of Liège, Belgium, and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music.