Why do humans make music, and how do they do it? Why are we a musical species? These are the questions that motivate my research. I use computational methods to study how musical traditions differ. Mapping the diversity of musics across the globe, is a key step in understanding the cultural evolution of musics.
My academic life has been closely connected to the University of Amsterdam: there I first finished the bachelor Bèta-gamma and then the Master of Logic, both with a major in mathematics. Now comfortably at home, I stayed at the UvA for my PhD with Jelle Zuidema, John Ashley Burgoyne and Henkjan Honing at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam where I was associated to both the clclab and the Music Cognition Group. Starting in the fall of 2023, I will take up a teaching position at the department of musicology.
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