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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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