Mads Græsbøll Christensen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in March 1977. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 2002 and 2005, respectively, from Aalborg University (AAU) in Denmark, where he is also currently employed at the Department of Architecture, Design & Media Technology as Associate Professor. At AAU, he is head of the Audio Analysis Lab which conducts research in audio signal processing. He was formerly with the Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University and has been a Visiting Researcher at Philips Research Labs, ENST, UCSB, and Columbia University. He has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and journals as well as 1 research monograph. His research interests include digital signal processing theory and methods with application to speech and audio, in particular parametric analysis, modeling, enhancement, separation, and coding. Dr. Christensen has received several awards, including an ICASSP Student Paper Award, the Spar Nord Foundation's Research Prize for his Ph.D. thesis, a Danish Independent Research Council Young Researcher's Award, and the Statoil Prize 2013, as well as prestigious grants from the Danish Independent Research Council and the Villum Foundation's Young Investigator Programme. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and is Senior Member of the IEEE and Member of EURASIP.