I got a BA in philosophy from UCL in 1999 and an MA in music composition from Birmingham Conservatoire in 2001. In June 2007, I got my Phd from Nottingham University for a thesis entitled 'Shared Emotions in Music' supervised by Greg Currie. Some collective musical improvisations were submitted along with it. The thesis can be downloaded here: http://etheses.nottingham.ac.uk/10286/

From September 2007 to September 2010 I was a postdoc at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, which is an institute specializing in emotion research at the University of Geneva. Here I researched emotions, the sublime, character, the relation between aesthetic…

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