I am an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Music, Director of the Centre for Music and Science, and Director of Studies in Music at Churchill College. Prior to starting in Cambridge in 2021, I was a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (2019-2021), a PhD student at Queen Mary University of London (School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, 2015-2019), an MSc student at Goldsmiths (Music, Mind & Brain, 2014-15), and a BA student at Cambridge (Music, 2011-2014). From 2016-19 I also worked as a data science consultant for the music research company SoundOut.
I specialise in computational approaches to music psychology. My research interests include music cognition, empirical music analysis, empirical performance studies, individual differences in music psychology, music learning aids, and software for behavioural experiments. I welcome MPhil and PhD research projects that are compatible with these topics (see Information for Prospective Applicants).
I teach BA and MPhil courses in Music & Science within the Faculty of Music. You can find some of my teaching materials at this link.
Favourite quotations
Richard Feynman: "What I cannot create, I do not understand."
Donald Knuth: "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."
