Center for Music in the Brain

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People

We are a cross-national, 
interdisciplinary group of
people coming from the worlds
of music, neuroscience,
psychology and linguistics
joint together by a common
interest in and passion for 
Music in the Brain.

Director

Peter Vuust

Professor
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H 1710, 01A-1-09
P +4527119471

Professors

Elvira Brattico

Professor
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H 1710, 1-25

Peter Keller

Professor
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H 1710

Morten L. Kringelbach

Professor
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H 1710

Marcus Thomas Pearce

Honorary Professor
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H Queen Mary University of London

Andrea Ravignani

Honorary Professor
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H Sapienza Università di Roma

Associate professors

Leonardo Bonetti

Associate Professor
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Kira Vibe Jespersen

Associate Professor
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Boris Alexander Kleber

Associate Professor
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Massimo Lumaca

Associate Professor
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Bjørn Petersen

Associate Professor
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Jan Alexander Stupacher

Associate Professor
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Assistant Professors

Alexandre Celma Miralles

Assistant Professor
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Tomas Matthews

Assistant Professor
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Victor Manuel Pando Naude

Assistant Professor
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H 1710

Anna M. Zamorano

Assistant Professor
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Postdocs

Francisco Javier Contreras Ruston

Postdoc
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Gemma Fernández Rubio

Postdoc
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Mattia Rosso

Postdoc
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PhD fellows

Pelle De Deckere

PhD Student Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain
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Olivia Foster Vander Elst

PhD Student Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain
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Silvia Genovese

PhD Student Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain
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Athanasia Kontouli

PhD Student Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain
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H 1710

Nikita Kudriavtsev

PhD Student Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain
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Paul Jaques Gilbert Maublanc

PhD Student Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain
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Ana Teresa Queiroga

PhD Student Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain
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Technical staff

Administration

Tina Bach Aaen

Centre Administrator
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H 1710, 01A-1-13
P +4578469955

Hella Kastbjerg

Professor Secretary, MA
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H 1710, 01A-1-13
P +4578464079

Affiliated researchers

Maria Celeste Fasano

Assistant Professor Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences
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H 1350, 531
P +4587159756

Mathias Klarlund

Postdoc Department of Clinical Medicine - Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience
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Cecilie Møller

Affiliated Researcher Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain
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P +4551967927

David Ricardo Quiroga Martinez

Researcher Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain
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Eduardo A. Garza-Villarreal

MD, PhD, Research Fellow
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatira, Mexico City
Email: egarza@gmail.com  

Maria Witek

Senior Birmingham Fellow, PhD
Department of Music
School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music
University of Birmingham, UK
E-mail: m.a.g.witek@bham.ac.uk    

Vinoo Alluri

Assistant Professor, PhD
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Email: vinoo.alluri@iiit.ac.in

Revised 06.08.2026
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Hella Kastbjerg