Daniel Müllensiefen studied Systematic Musicology, Historic Musicology and Journalism at the universities of Hamburg (Germany) and Salamanca (Spain). After his Masters he spent six years in the German music industry working as a project- and business development manager for PhonoNet GmbH, a technical subsidiary of the German Association of the Music Industry. He finished his PhD in music psychology in 2004. He then came to London in 2006 where he was employed as a Research Fellow in Goldsmiths’ Computing department at Goldsmiths. Since 2009 he is a lecturer in the Psychology department at Goldsmiths and co-director of the Master’s course in Music Mind and Brain at Goldsmiths. He is currently…

Lauren Stewart completed her first degree in Physiological Sciences at the University of Oxford in 1997, followed by an MSc in Neuroscience (also at Oxford) the following year. Her first foray into music neuroscience was during her PhD at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, with Uta Frith and Vincent Walsh, where she conducted the first longitudinal functional imaging study of musical learning. Following her PhD, she was awarded an ESRC one year postdoctoral fellowship and a Bogue travelling fellowship from UCL, which supported a visit to the laboratory of Gottfried Schlaug (Musicians brain laboratory, Harvard Medical School).  Following a two year postdoctoral position with Prof Tim Griffiths (Newcastle University and…