Makis Solomos (born 1962) is a Franco-Greek musicologist specializing in contemporary music, particularly the works of Iannis Xenakis and Theodor W. Adorno.
He has published several articles and books and regularly participates in academic meetings and symposia.
He is a professor at the Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis and a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
He opposes historicism, a linear reading of the history of music in which the evolution of aesthetics is considered only in a uniform sense with reference only to great names.
He defends the idea that musical evolution is a complex and multifaceted movement of different conceptions and aesthetics.