1. Research focus
In my writings I defend a '4E' approach - one that conceives of the musical mind as Embodied, Embedded, Extended, and Enactive. While this framework is increasingly receiving attention in the cognitive sciences, it remains rather unexplored in music. My aim is to fill this gap and provide richer understandings of music cognition and its creative manifestations.
Between 2019 and 2022 I was PI of a "Stand Alone" project funded by FWF, the Austrian Science Fund. This grant (€ 441,042.00) allowed me and my collaborators to explore innovative ways to conceptualise, assess, and enhance musical creativity in diverse pedagogical and performative settings. In 2017 I was awarded a "Lise Meitner" Fellowship by FWF (€ 148,480.00) to conduct research on musical participation in teaching and learning, helping to shed new light on the intersubjective nature of music pedagogy.
I am one of three founders and Editors of the newly established book series Music as Art and Science (Oxford University Press). Our aim is to promote the cooperation between humanities and science in musicology, offering a meeting point for scholars in different fields to work with each other. If you have a well-developed book proposal that adheres to OUP's guidelines on submission and manuscript preparation, please get in touch.
Between 2019 and 2022 I was PI of a "Stand Alone" project funded by FWF, the Austrian Science Fund. This grant (€ 441,042.00) allowed me and my collaborators to explore innovative ways to conceptualise, assess, and enhance musical creativity in diverse pedagogical and performative settings. In 2017 I was awarded a "Lise Meitner" Fellowship by FWF (€ 148,480.00) to conduct research on musical participation in teaching and learning, helping to shed new light on the intersubjective nature of music pedagogy.
I am one of three founders and Editors of the newly established book series Music as Art and Science (Oxford University Press). Our aim is to promote the cooperation between humanities and science in musicology, offering a meeting point for scholars in different fields to work with each other. If you have a well-developed book proposal that adheres to OUP's guidelines on submission and manuscript preparation, please get in touch.
2. Collaborative work
Most of my research is done in collaboration with colleagues working in music and other disciplines. I am extremely grateful to all of them, and to all the other scholars whose work inspired me throughout the years. Building on such complementary expertise, I aim to establish novel connections between music, the cognitive humanities, and the social and empirical sciences.