Melanie Fritsch is currently Junior professor for Media and Cultural Studies with a focus on Game Studies and related fields at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She is a team member of the Ludomusicology Research Group as well as the speaker team of the AG Games of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft. Further, she is a co-founder of the Society for the Study of Sound and Music in Games and the “Journal of Sound and Music in Games” as well as the AG Spiele (Verband DHd – “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum“). She co-edited the “Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music“ in collaboration with Tim Summers.