Chair

Renee Timmers

Renee Timmers is a Professor of Psychology of Music, who teaches and conducts research in this field while directing the research centre Muses, Mind, Machine. She holds degrees in Musicology and Psychology and has gained interdisciplinary research experience as a postdoctoral researcher in music, psychology, and computer science departments across Europe and the United States before joining the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer.

SMPC President

Psyche Loui

Psyche Loui is Associate Professor of Creativity and Creative Practice in the Department of Music and director of the MIND (Music, Imaging, and Neural Dynamics) lab at Northeastern University. She holds a PhD in Psychology from University of California, Berkeley, and dual undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Music from Duke University. 

ESCOM President

Suvi Saarikallio

Suvi Saarikallio works as a Professor of Music Education at the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body, and Brain, at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Saarikallio studies music in relation to emotions, identity, youth development, and mental health. She has developed psychometric instruments such as Music for Mood Regulation (MMR) and Healthy-Unhealthy Music Scale (HUMS) and currently leads an ERC-funded project MUSICONNECT to investigate ways of measuring music as a connection to self and others. 

APSCOM President

Amanda Krause

Dr Amanda Krause is a Senior Lecturer (Psychology) in the College of Healthcare Sciences at James Cook University (Queensland, Australia). She is also an Honorary Fellow at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and an Honorary Research Associate at the The Kids Institute.

ICMPC 17 (Co-)organizer

Masanobu Miura

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ICMPC 15 Organizer

Richard Parncutt

Richard Parncutt is a systematic musicologist, music psychologist, and psychoacoustician. Recent research contributions addressed global warming, human rights, and academic travel. From 1998 to 2023, he was Professor of Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria, where he directed the Centre for Systematic Musicology (2009 to 2023). He was president of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) (2015-2018) and chair of the 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) combined with the 10th triennial conference of ESCOM (Graz, Montreal, La Plata, Sydney, 23-28 July 2018).