SysMus Council

The SysMus Council oversees the academic standard and profile of the SysMus students' conference series.


The council is invited to comment on:

  • venues for future SysMus conferences

  • central aspects of academic organization

  • future directions of the SysMus conference concept

The SysMus Council (as of November 2020) has the following members, comprising past conference chairs, supervisors and previous members of the Executive:

SysMus08 director & SysMus co-founder

Manuela M. Marin,

Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Austria

SysMus08 supervisor & SysMus co-founder

Prof. Richard Parncutt

Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria

SysMus09 director & SysMus18 supervisor

Luiz Naveda

Faculty of Music, Minas Gerais State University, Brazil

SysMus10 supervisor

Prof. Ian Cross

Centre for Music & Science, University of Cambridge, UK

SysMus14 director

Kelly Jakubowski

Department of Music,

Durham University, UK

SysMus13 supervisor

Prof. Antonio Camurri

Casa Paganini - InfoMus, DIBRIS-University of Genoa, Italy

SysMus16 co-director

Joshua Bamford

Department of Music, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

SysMus16 supervisor

Birgitta Burger

Department of Music, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

SysMus17 director

Sarah Sauvé

Cognitive Aging and Auditory Neuroscience Lab, Memorial University of Newfoundland

SysMus17 supervisor

Marcus Pearce

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK

SysMus20 director

Diana Kayser

York Music Psychology Group, York University

SysMus Executive 2018-2020

Jan Stupacher

Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University


SysMus Executive 2018-2022

Claudia Stirnat

Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany


SysMus21 director

Signe Hagner

Center for Music in the Brain & Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark

SysMus21 supervisor

Niels Christian Hansen

Center for Music in the Brain & Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark

SysMus22 director

Kelsey Onderdijk

Center for Music in the Brain & Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark

SysMus22 supervisor

Edith Van Dyck

Center for Music in the Brain & Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark