Paulo de Assis (b. 1969) is an artist-researcher in music, pianist, experimental performer, and musicologist based in Belgium. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, where he leads a research group on experimental creative practices at the intersection of musicology, composition, performance, AI & blockchain, and contemporary philosophy. He has directed a European Research Council project on 'experimental performance practices' and is currently president of the Evaluation Panel Arts, Design and Architecture of the Swiss National Foundation. He has worked as panel member at the European Research Council (Panel Consolidator Grant), and as evaluator for the Norwegian Research Council, the Israel Science Foundation, Québec Research Fonds, ANPPOM (Brazil), and the Kone Foundation in Finland. After studies in Germany and Italy, he has held academic positions in Lisbon, Toulouse and Madrid. In addition to his artistic practice, De Assis has published extensively, including the monograph Logic of Experimentation (2018) and several articles on "hypermusic", "music 2.0", and "posthuman music". His most recent publication is the edited volume Decentralized Music. Exploring Blockchain for Artistic Research (2024).