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Emeritus Professsor of Music & Science, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge
Ian is Emeritus Professsor of Music & Science, Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, having retired as Director of the Centre for Music and Science (CMS) in 2021. Ian taught undergraduate and graduate courses for the Faculty of Music and supervised a substantial number of graduate students as well as founding the CMS. Research in the CMS investigates music from many different scientific perspectives, reflected in the wide range of publications by its past and present members (see blogs at https://musicatcambridge.wordpress.com/). He is Principal Investigator for a new Leverhulme Trust-funded research project, Score Design for music reading: cognitive and artistic perspectives. Ian is Editor-in-Chief of SAGE's online Open Access journal with SEMPRE, Music & Science, am on the editorial advisory boards of numerous journals, am a Trustee of the SEMPRE, a Governor of the Music Therapy Charity and Chair of Trustees of KJV Community Choir. Ian is also a guitarist, having studied with Tim Walker and holding diplomas from the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music.