2016 MIB, in Collaboration with DTU, Received Imagination
M I B MIB Annual Report 2016 MIB Annual Report 2016 The Danish National Research Foundation’s Center for Music in the Brain WORDS FROM THE DIRECTOR 2016 was The Danish National Research guest speakers and collaborators, such as Jean- Foundation’s Center for Music in the Brain (MIB)’s Claude Dreher, Predrag Petrovic, Lauri Parkkonen, first full year - a year of building up in terms of Stefan Kölsch, Virginia Penhune and many more. personnel, collaborations, projects, administrative During the fall of 2016, Bjørn Petersen arranged procedures and music-specific infrastructure. MIB’s first web-streamed course in experimental musicology attracting almost 30 Master’s and PhD To support the core research in the four strands students from Aarhus University (AU), the Royal of the centre, Perception, led by Lauren Stewart: Academy of Music and abroad. Action, led by Peter Vuust: Emotion, led by Morten Kringelbach and Learning, led by Elvira Brattico, Translating the MIB research into clinical MIB started up one associate professor, one applications is an important goal for MIB. This assistant professor, one postdoc, two PhD students, line of research, coordinated by associate professor 1 research assistant and two half-time technicians. Line Gebauer, was able to attract considerable external funding. The Tryg Foundation, Aage og A constant influx of international guest professors Ejnar Danielsens Fond, Folkesundhed i Midten, and graduate and postgraduate students from and Fonden til Lægevidenskabens Fremme abroad has been aiding the MIB research greatly. generously funded the PhD of Mette Kaasgaard, Supported by Aarhus University Research who will be starting January 2017, on singing Foundation (AUFF) and the Lundbeck foundation, training of patients suffering from chronic Professor Mikko Sams from Aalto University and obstructive pulmonary disease.
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