Geoffrey Luck
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General description
Dr Geoff Luck is a Senior Researcher in Musicology in the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies (MACS) and Assoc. Prof. (Docent) of Experimental Psychology in the Faculty of Education and Psychology. Geoff holds a PhD in Psychology and has extensive expertise in quantifying and predicting how we process music, especially via movement and embodiment. His teaching responsibilities span a range of topics, including music psychology, music and neuroscience, and research methods. Geoff is Director of the Sound Science Lab, and incoming Editor-in-Chief of Musicae Scientiae, the leading music science journal. Geoff has led successful externally-funded projects including The Kinematics and Dynamics of Musical Communication (Academy of Finland, 2008-2013) and Gigbuds (TEKES, 2013-2015), and currently leads The Rhythm of Life (Research Council of Finland, 2023-2027) and AUDISSION (Business Finland, 2024- 2025) projects. He is an Executive Module Leader in the Research Council of Finland-funded Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain (2022-2029), Chair of the Joint Seminar on Music, Sport and Health, Faculty representative of the Jyväskylä Brain and Mind consortium, and a Mentor on both the JYU Tenure Track and MACS Postdoc mentorship programmes.
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, Senior Researcher
Research interests
My research is situated at the intersection of the creative and brain sciences and focuses on the perception, cognition, and impact of music in daily life and applied settings. Key research topics include rhythmic & expressive movement, mental health & function, and computing & information retrieval.
Fields of science
Follow-up groups
Projects as Principal investigator
- AUDISSION
- Business Finland
- The Rhythm of Life: Modeling Musical Tempo Across the Lifespan
- Research Council of Finland
- 26th Annual Symposium for Music Scholars in Finland
- Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
Projects as Team Member
- Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain
- Toiviainen, Petri
- Research Council of Finland
Nb. In Converis, projects mean external funding related to JYU operations. More extensive studies (e.g. dissertations or Research Council of Finland CoEs) may include multiple funding components, each shown as a different project in Converis. Budget-funded studies (funding only from JYU) are not listed as projects. Regarding personal grants the data is not comprehensive. Start and end dates do not necessarily reflect exact months when the grant has been used. Project data has been recorded systematically since 2017.
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