Biography

Hi—thanks for being interested in my work ☺

I am a cognitive scientist who studies how minds, music, and culture interact. This has led me to do research on topics ranging from how the language you speak shapes how you perceive music, to how the sound of ‘baby talk’ varies around the world.

I am also interested in rethinking what psychology experiments look like. I do this by applying ideas from citizen science and gamification to design ways to study larger and more diverse groups of people over the internet. Participate in my latest citizen science study here.

You can find the full list of my published research on my Google Scholar profile.

I did my PhD at the University of Sydney. I then worked for two years as a postdoc at Harvard in The Music Lab. In 2023, the lab and I both moved to the University of Auckland in New Zealand, which is where I currently work.

I grew up in the country town of Gidgegannup in Western Australia and originally trained as a musician before becoming a scientist.