Jessica Grahn

Jessica Adrienne Grahn is an American music neuroscientist. She is the director of the Human Cognitive and Sensorimotor Core[1] of the University of Western Ontario's Brain and Mind Institute. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Grahn was named to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

Jessica Grahn
Jessica Grahn, 2017
Academic background
EducationBMus, Piano Performance, 1999, BA, Neuroscience, 1999, Northwestern University
PhD, 2005, Wolfson College, Cambridge
ThesisBehavioural and Functional Imaging Studies of Rhythm Processing (2005)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Western Ontario
University of Cambridge
Websitejessicagrahn.com

Early life and education

Grahn completed her degrees in Neuroscience and Piano Performance from Northwestern University and her PhD from the University of Cambridge.[2] Grahn was awarded the 2001 Gates Cambridge Scholarship to study in England.[3]

Career

Grahn left the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit[4] at the University of Cambridge in 2010 when she was offered a position at the University of Western Ontario (UWO).[5] At UWO, she established the Neuroscience and Music Lab[6] at the Brain and Mind Institute with assistance from the Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders Opportunity Fund in 2012.[7] She also received an Ontario Early Researcher Award to "make new discoveries while helping to build their research teams."[8] The Neuroscience and Music Lab was devised to study timing, rhythm and movement by understanding how the brain processes music.[7] In the same year, Grahn was awarded a grant from the Grammy Foundation for her ongoing research in studying how the brain senses and reacts to music.[9]

In 2015, Grahn was promoted to the rank of associate professor in the Department of Psychology and received the 2016 Faculty Scholars Award.[10] The following year, she was elected a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.[11] In 2018, Grahn and Robert Zatorre at McGill University were co-recipients of a McGill-Western Collaboration Grant to "create an auditory-oriented multimodal neuroimaging database, giving researchers access to neural circuitry data to test new hypotheses and serve as a baseline for studies involving disorders of hearing."[12]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Grahn was named to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.[13]

References
  1. "Human Cognition & Sensorimotor Core - BrainsCAN - Western University". brainscan.uwo.ca. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
  2. "Jessica Grahn Researcher Profile". uwo.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  3. "Gates Scholar to study in Cambridge". northwestern.edu. March 16, 2005. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  4. "Staff". www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
  5. Winders, Jason (May 17, 2010). "Adrian Owen joins Centre for Brain and Mind". news.westernu.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  6. "Jessica Grahn". Jessica Grahn. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
  7. Winders, Jason (January 24, 2012). "Finding ties between music, the brain and how we move". news.westernu.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  8. "Early Researcher Awards". news.westernu.ca. May 4, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  9. "Neuroscientist wins Grammy award". news.westernu.ca. April 13, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  10. "Grahn and Richmond named as 2016 Faculty Scholars". ssc.uwo.ca. April 15, 2016. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  11. "Grahn and Lomber named Fellows of the APS". ssc.uwo.ca. June 23, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  12. Van Brenk, Debora (November 22, 2018). "Neuroscience grants promote teamwork". news.westernu.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  13. Rombouts, Rob (September 9, 2020). "Jessica Grahn named to College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists". ssc.uwo.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
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