Matthias Pasdzierny is working as research assistant (PostDoc) at the University of the Arts Berlin and as head of the Berlin office of the Bernd Alois Zimmermann-Gesamtausgabe (complete critical edition of the compositions, writings and letters). He a wrote a PhD about the connection of musical life and return migration to Germany after 1945 (Wiederaufnahme? Rückkehr aus dem Exil und das westdeutsche Musikleben nach 1945, München: text + kritik, 2014). His main research subjects critical edition and philology of electronic and recorded music (PostDoc project), German music history after 1945, the history and aesthetics of Electronic Dance Music, music and migration. Matthias Pasdzierny is an elected member of the Arab-German Young Academy of Science and Humanities (AGYA).