Frederic Font is a senior researcher at the Music Technology Group of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His current research is focused on the understanding and analysis of large audio collections, including sound characterisation and classification, to improve sound retrieval techniques and to facilitate the reuse of large audio collections in creative and scientific contexts. Frederic is the coordinator of the Freesound website, and related research and development projects, and has coordinated the EU funded Audio Commons Initiative.