A senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Sussex, Stefan Koelsch is a musician and a neuroscientist who studies the cognitive architecture that underlies music and language and the neuronal relationship of music and emotion as well as developmental aspects of voice and music cognition. A graduate of Bremen Conservatory of Music where he studied violin, piano, and composition, he earned master’s degrees in psychology and in sociology from the University of Leipzig and a Ph.D. with highest honors from the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience in Leipzig in 2001. Dr. Koelsch did postdoctoral research in neuroimaging at Harvard Medical School before returning to the Max Planck Institute to lead an independent junior research group studying the neurocognition of music. He came to Sussex as a senior research fellow in 2007 and was named to his present position earlier this year. He is the author of more than eighty papers published in scientific journals.