Loïc Riom is a specialist in cultural and digital industries. He is a junior lecturer at the STS Lab of the University of Lausanne. His research interests include live music, cultural infrastructures and the links between the music industry and technological innovation. After a PhD thesis on the economization of intimate and secret concert formats at the Centre de sociologie de l'innovation de l'Ecole supérieure des Mines de Paris, he is currently conducting a study on the Music Tech. He is the winner of the young researcher prize of the French-speaking branch of Europe IASPM (2015) and co-edited with Marc Perrenoud the book Musique en Suisse sous le regard des sciences sociales (2018).