Sebastian Hachmeyer is a music ethnologist and environmental geographer specialising in eco-musicology, music and environmental studies, environmental ethnomusicology, musical sustainability, and music and environmental anthropology. After working as coordinator of the DAAD SDG Graduate School Performing Sustainability: Cultures and Development in West Africa, Sebastian is now leading the DFG-funded research project ‘From Native Bamboo to Indigenous Flute: Applied Eco-Musicology and Sustainability in Highland Flute Making in the Bolivian Andes.’ His research interests include music cultures and sustainability; musical instrument making, natural resources and ecological sustainability; indigenous music and climate change; Aymara music and musical instruments (eco-organology); decolonial ethnomusicological methods and bimusicality; as well as practice research and artistic research. He earned his interdisciplinary doctorate in music and geography at Royal Holloway University of London.