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Dr Eduardo Coutinho

Senior Lecturer in Music Psychology Music

About

Personal Statement

Dr Eduardo Coutinho is a Senior Lecturer in Music Psychology at the Department of Music from the University of Liverpool and an Invited Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science from the University of Manchester. Before his appointment at Liverpool, he worked at the University of Augsburg, Imperial College London, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, and University of Sheffield. He is also the founder and Director of the APPLIED MUSIC Research Lab, an interdisciplinary research group that aims to harness the benefits of music for improving people's lives. The AM Lab's key aim is the development of methods and tools that permit using music in systematic ways for improving different aspects of health and wellbeing.

Prizes or Honours

  • Young Investigator Award (International Neural Network Society, 2014)
  • Winner of MediaEval 2014 "Emotion in Music" Benchmark (MediaEval Community Council, 2014)
  • Knowledge Transfer Award (Swiss National Center of Competence in Research in Affective Sciences, 2013)
  • New York Prize Fellowship (Honourable Mention) (Van Alen Institute (New York, NY, USA), 2008)

Funded Fellowships

  • Music, muscle relaxation and spasticity (University of Liverpool, 2019)
  • AudioTrek (University of Liverpool, 2017 - 2018)
  • Polyhymnia - Personalised Music Playlists for the Treatment of Depression (Wellcome Trust, 2019 - 2020)
  • Music Selections for the Treatment of Depression (University of Liverpool, 2018)
  • Music Selections for Road Safety (University of Liverpool, 2016 - 2017)
  • Source Monitoring Auditory Rehabilitation Training (SMART) for auditory hallucinations (University of Liverpool, 2015)
  • Cross-cultural empirical and computational studies of emotional expression in speech prosody and music (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2011 - present)
  • Empirical studies of emotional expression in speech prosody and music (2009 - 2010)
  • Psychophysiological studies of musical emotions (2004 - 2008)