The People

Born and raised in Switzerland, Diego studied Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science at the University of Zurich, earning a Doctorate in Dynamical Systems (“Chaos Theory”) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ).

A passion for synthesisers since the early 1980s led to an increasing interest in how timbres could be visualised more intuitively. While travelling through the Australian Outback, he conceived the mathematical idea that became Sunics.

Diego changed his career to software engineering, gaining end-to-end delivery experience of digital products across two decades. Those skills became the bridge between sound, maths and software. When he finally applied the transformation for the first time — to a whale song — the result was immediately intuitive. The maths worked.

He founded Sunics as an experimentation platform for the audio and research community — so that anyone interested can collaboratively explore how we look (pun intended) at sound.