Academic Education
12/2017 Doctoral degree, Psychology (Dr. rer. nat.) | University of Graz, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Graz, Austria
07/2012 Diploma, Psychology (Dipl. – Psych.) | University of Tübingen, Department of Psychology, Tübingen, Germany
Research Experience
Since 10/2025 Associate professor |Aarhus University, Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus, Denmark
09/2022 - 08/2025 Assistant professor |Aarhus University, Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus, Denmark
09/2021 - 08/2022 Senior postdoc | University of Graz, Institute of Psychology, Section Neuropsychology, Graz, Austria
06/2018 - 08/2021 Postdoctoral researcher | Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus, Denmark
04/2016 – 06/2016 Visiting researcher | Ghent University, IPEM - Institute for Psychoacoustics & Electronic Music, Ghent, Belgium
10/2013 – 12/2017 Research associate / doctoral student | University of Graz, Institute of Psychology, Section Neuropsychology, Graz, Austria
05/2011 – 10/2011 Diploma thesis research | Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Music Cognition and Action Research Group, Leipzig, Germany
Research Fellowships
2019 Erwin Schrödinger postdoctoral fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), 36 months - 172,430 EUR
2015 DOC doctoral fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), 36 months - 105,000 EUR
Grants
2024 Research grant from Parkinsonforeningen (Danish Parkinson's Association); Project title: Rhythm and time in the audio-motor brain: A comprehensive approach in Parkinson’s disease; Role: Co-applicant; 100,000 DKK (13,410 EUR)
2023 Research grant from Parkinsonforeningen (Danish Parkinson's Association); Project title: Unlocking the pleasurable urge to move to music in people with Parkinson’s disease through rhythm and social connection; Role: Main applicant & PI; 75,150 DKK (10,075 EUR)
2021 Conference grant from the Carlsberg Foundation for the organization of SysMus21 – International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology in Aarhus; Jan Stupacher (main applicant), Signe Hagner, Christine Ahrends, & Niels Chr. Hansen; 42,704 DKK (5,740 EUR)
2021 Conference grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for the organization of SysMus21 – International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology in Aarhus; Signe Hagner (main applicant), Christine Ahrends, Jan Stupacher, & Niels Chr. Hansen; 97,050 DKK (13,050 EUR)
2019 Research grant: IMC Seed Funding from Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University; Project title: Replication and Extension of Nozaradan et al. (2011); Jan Stupacher (main applicant) & Cecilie Moeller; 5,850 DKK (790 EUR)
Awards
2019 Outreach Henry Prize for scientific outreach, collaboration, and support of colleagues; awarded by CFIN/MINDLab and Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University
2018 INGE St. Doctoral Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in the field of neuroscience in Styria in 2017; awarded by the Styrian Brain Research Initiative (INGE St.)
2017 ESCOM Young Researcher Award for the best proceedings paper by a PhD student at the Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, 2017, Ghent, Belgium; awarded by the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM)
2017 SEMPRE Travel Award for ESCOM 2017, Ghent, Belgium; awarded by SEMPRE, the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research
2016 SEMPRE Travel Award for SysMus 2016, Jyväskylä, Finland; awarded by SEMPRE, the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research
2014 SEMPRE Travel Award for SysMus 2014, London, UK; awarded by SEMPRE, the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research
Committee memberships
2022 - 2024 Advisor in the executive committee of the International Conference Series of Students of Systematic Musicology
2022 - 2023 Groove Workshop organizing committee
First international Groove Workshop, online, January 25 - 27, 2023
2020 – 2021 SysMus21 Organizing Committee
SysMus21 – "International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology" at Center for Music in the Brain and Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, November 3-5 2021
2018 – 2020 Member-at-large in the executive committee of the International Conference Series of Students of Systematic Musicology
Review Committees
ICMPC 2023 – International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
CIM 2022 – Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology: Participation
RPPW 2021 – Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop
CIM 2019 – Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology: Embodiment in Music
SysMus 2018 – International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology
Manuscript peer reviews
Acta Psychologica; Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; Behavior Research Methods; Brain Research Bulletin; British Journal of Social Psychology; Cognition; Communications Biology; Consciousness and Cognition; Cortex; Discover Education; Empirical Musicology Review; Empirical Studies of the Arts; Experimental Brain Research; Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; Frontiers in Psychology; Human Movement Science; International Journal of Psychophysiology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Music Perception; Music & Science; Musicae Scientiae; Nature Communications; Neuroimage; Neuropsychologia; Perception; Plos One; Psychological Research; Psychology of Music; Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain; Psychophysiology; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Royal Society Open Science; Scientific Reports