Luca Danieli was awarded a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 2019. He subsequently held a postdoctoral position in music theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria, from 2021 to 2024.

He is simultaneously an artist, a scientist, and a programmer, and has expertise on topics related to music, technology, and innovation & entrepreneurship. Articles cover art-science-technology, music, artificial intelligence, and innovation+cultural management.

He is currently publishing a book titled An Introduction to Contemporary Music Theory and Complex Systems: Entropy, Density, Cadences, to suggest a new approach to music theory that bridges the fields of composition and that of complex systems.

In 2020, he conceived the research proposal titled €386,000 Points of Discontinuity, funded by the Austrian Science Fund and hosted by the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in between 2021 and 2024. The project was then coordinated by Prof. Christian Utz.

In 2019-2021, he developed a startup concept with a team covering cultural management and technology, including data analysis, which was recognized as a top project for the Cultural & Creative Industries by multiple international initiatives. These include:

- Top-9 international projects selected by the Horizon-2020 CLIC Startup Competition on Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse. This competition was organized by the Institute for Research on Innovation and Development Services (IRISS) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), with judges from organizations including OECD, EIF, EASME, COSME, EEN, FacilityLive, Trans Europe Halles, and DigitalMagics.

- Top-14 cross-sectoral Italian projects selected by the Innovability School organized by the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS). Judges represented institutions such as LUISS University Rome, the University of Florence, Enel Innovability, Ericsson, and the Italian Institute for Technology (IIT).

- Top-4 international projects in the Cultural & Creative Industries (CCI) by the Startup Europe Accelerathon, part of Startup Europe, an initiative designed by the European Commission to identify and accelerate projects that support EU priority goals like Life, Green Deal, and the New European Bauhaus. The Accelerathon was coordinated by the Finnova Foundation and the Valencian Institute for Entrepreneurial Competitiveness (IVACE).

In 2018, he was awarded the Third Prize at the 12th Nabokov International Prize for Literature in the category "unpublished essays" for the work Il barAtto Democratico, an essay focused on cultural aesthetics and political philosophy.

In 2015, he was artist in residence at the Center for Art and Media ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany.

In 2013, he also received the second prize "Amici di Deppo" for best dissertation in electronic music at the Conservatorio di Padova, Italy.