SysMus Executive Committee 2022-2024

I completed my DPhil in Muisc at the University of Oxford in 2022. My doctoral research examined the perception, cognition and aesthetics of musical awe. I am also interested in the roles of music in identity formation and religious practice.

I participated in SysMus conferences since 2017, authored the SysMus20 conference report, and I am on the organising commitee for SysMus23.

I recently completed a DPhil at the Institute of Human Sciences, University of Oxford. My research investigates the evolutionary functions of synchronised movement, as our group size and ability to dance are two features that separate humans from other primates.

I have participated in every SysMus since 2015, and was a co-director of SysMus16 at the University of Jyväskylä.

I am a PhD student at the Center for Music in the Brain at Aarhus University, Denmark. My research focuses in the neuroscience of singing and the effect of musical familiarity on relaxation. I am also really interested in the use of musical performance in educational settings.

I participated in the online SysMus in 2021 and I am looking forward to being secretary of the board in the coming two years.

I am a PhD student at the York Music Psychology Group (YMPG) and am interested in various areas of music cognition and music psychology, but also music information retrieval. In my PhD-research I investigate if and to what extent different behavioural measures (facial expressions, skin conductance, heart rate) can be used to predict the subjective experience of music-induced emotions, and how these experiences might relate to musical features.

I've had a great time being part of the first SysMus Executive Committee as Secretary and hosting SysMus20 as a virtual conference was an interesting experience and allowed participants to present from all over the world. However, one of the things most of us early in their career value the most about SysMus is networking, which happens more naturally in person. I hope that, in addition to finding motivated hosts, we can think about creative ways to bringing the community closer together so that future attendees can find their academic forever-friends / collaborators.

I'm a master's student at the University of Oregon studying Musicology and Bassoon Performance with a certificate in New Media and Culture. I'm originally from Toronto, Canada and I completed my undergraduate degrees at Penn State University, where I studied bassoon performance and general science. My research focuses are: popular music in Shanghai from the 1920s to 40s, public musicology, timbre, and impacts of new media on music consumption and perception.

I had the wonderful opportunity to attend SysMus 22 in Ghent. I thoroughly enjoyed the SysMus experience and look forward to serving as member-at-large.

I am an assistant professor at the Center for Music in the Brain at Aarhus University in Denmark. My research interests are rhythm perception and production, sensorimotor synchronization, social interaction in musical contexts, and the concepts of groove and flow in music. I have received my doctoral degree in Psychology from the University of Graz, Austria in 2017. Before that, I have studied Psychology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. My specialization in rhythm perception and music cognition started with an internship (2010) and a diploma thesis project (2011) in the Music Cognition and Action research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany.