Peter Harrison
Assistant Professor in Music and Science
Contact
pmch2@cam.ac.uk
Departmental Profile
cms.mus.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-peter-harrison
About
Peter is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Music, Director of the Centre for Music and Science, and Director of Studies in Music at Churchill College. Previously he worked as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics and as a data science consultant for the music research startup SoundOut.
Research
Peter’s research focuses on:
- Computational approaches to music psychology
- Music cognition and empirical music analysis
- Empirical performance studies and individual differences in music psychology
- Music learning aids and software for behavioural experiments