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 across different settings. This includes a focus on historical musical instruments through my recent ERC Synergy Grant.

Editorial work

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.

Collaborations

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.