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Centre for Music and Science

 

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. Previously I worked at as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics and as a data science consultant for the music research startup SoundOut. I specialise in computational approaches to music psychology; my research interests include music cognition, empirical music analysis, empirical performance studiesindividual differences in music psychologymusic learning aids, and software for behavioural experiments. I welcome MPhil and PhD research projects within these topics (see Information for Prospective Applicants).

I am an Associate Editor for the journal Music Perception.

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.

PhD students

  • (2021-) Huw Cheston
  • (2023-) Katelyn Emerson
  • (2023-) Joshua Frank
  • (2024-) David Whyatt

MPhil students

  • (2022-23) Claire Brillon
  • (2022-23) Hannah Wilkie
  • (2022-23) Katelyn Emerson
  • (2022-23) Xiaoxuan Wang
  • (2023-24) Catherine Tan
  • (2023-24) David Whyatt

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."

See also

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Dr Peter Harrison

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Latest news

Isaac Sebenius wins Best Poster award at the CHIA conference

27 June 2025

Many congratulations to Isaac Sebenius for winning the Best Poster award at the 2025 Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence Conference! Isaac has been working with us this summer on this project, called "Cognitive Benchmarking of Symbolic Music Foundation Models".