Daniel Fredriksson is a senior lecturer in Sound and Music Production at Dalarna University, Sweden. After finishing his doctoral degree in ethnomusicology at Umeå University in 2018, on music and cultural policy, he has studied diverse subjects such as music and interculturality, folk music and world music instruments, and festivals and theatre production during the pandemic age. He is an active musician and has explored local folk music traditions of northern Sweden in the duo Pettersson & Fredriksson and with singer Ulrika Bodén, as well as folk metal in the bands Otyg and (more recently) Solsaate.