Michelle George

I am a third-year PhD student investigating how acoustic stimulation, particularly speech and music, interacts with the sleeping brain. My research explores the relationship between sleep and cognition, with a focus on how musical information is processed in the context of different neurophysiological features of sleep in healthy individuals.

I am also part of Lullabyte, an EU-wide doctoral consortium developing interdisciplinary approaches to using sounds/music to aid sleep. Within this network, I contribute to projects involving sonification: transforming brain activity into soundscapes that can help people better understand their internal states as they transition from wakefulness to sleep.

Selected publications

George, M.; Andrillon, T. (2026). What is Sleep? In Music and Sleep (Elsevier). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-33651-5.00007-0 

Science communication

Immersive Audio-Visual Installation representing sleep through sonification presented at the Long Night of the Sciences (LNDW), Berlin - June 2025