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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. 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 studiesindividual differences in music psychologymusic 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 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.

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."

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Latest news

Maddie Jones starting PhD at Bristol University

28 March 2025

We are very pleased to hear that Maddie Jones, who did an undergraduate dissertation project at the CMS analysing the relationship between music listening and mood, has been awarded a full PhD scholarship to study at Bristol University, in the School of Psychological Science. She will be supervised by Professor Claire...

New article: Reverberation time and musical emotion in recorded music listening

28 March 2025

Many congratulations to Hannah Wilkie for her recent article in Music Perception entitled 'Reverberation time and musical emotion in recorded music listening'! This article came from Hannah's MPhil thesis at the CMS in 2023. Hannah is now studying for a PhD in Princeton University. Abstract: The influence of room acoustic...