Martin Hartmann, Associate Professor (tenure track)
Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain
Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies
40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland
(+358) 40 805 4311
martin dot hartmann at jyu dot fi
About me
I am an Associate Professor of Computational Musicology (tenure track) at the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain (Department of Music, Art, and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland) and a Docent in Empirical Music Psychology (Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
I am the main PI leading a multidisciplinary team in the Research Council of Finland (RCF) consortium project Musical Sharing in Copresent Time and Space (MUSICOTAS; 2025-2029, co-PI: Dr. Teemu Ahmaniemi, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland). This project aims to generate new knowledge on the impact of different performance and listening contexts upon concert experiences.
I am PI, Module Leader, and Executive Board Member of the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain (MMBB; 2022-2029, Director: Suvi Saarikallio). MMBB studies music as a multimodal human experience and as a versatile engine of change, throughout the life span and in health and disease. It is a consortium between three research groups at the University of Jyväskylä and University of Helsinki.
I am Work Package Leader of Music as youth empowerment: creating connection to self and others (MUSICONNECT; 2022-2027), a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (PI: Suvi Saarikallio), which studies music as a socioemotional resource among youth and its ability to foster connections with oneself and others.
I am Associate Editor of Psychology of Music, Consulting Editor of Music Perception and maintainer of the MoCap Toolbox, a MATLAB toolbox that contains functions for the analysis and visualization of motion capture data.
I have worked as a Postdoctoral researcher both at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies and the Faculty of Information Technology for a number of projects, including my three-year project Interaction in Music Therapy for Depression, funded by the Academy of Finland.
I received a Licentiate Degree in Psychology (roughly equivalent to a Master's Degree) from the University of Buenos Aires. I obtained a Master's Degree in Music, Mind, and Technology and a Ph.D in Musicology from the University of Jyväskylä (Ph.D thesis: Modelling and prediction of perceptual segmentation). My supervisors were Professor Petri Toiviainen and Dr. Olivier Lartillot.
I come from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and moved to Finland in 2009. I live in Jyväskylä with my wife and our three children. I love music, especially rock, pop, baroque and jazz. I enjoy playing with my children, playing piano and guitar, singing, taking pictures, reading, swimming, cycling, footbiking, running, and traveling.
Resources
MoCap Toolbox (MATLAB)
MoCap Toolbox (Julia, work in progress)
MATLAB codes implementing the generalized cross-wavelet transform (GXWT) algorithm described in the paper "Analyzing multidimensional movement interaction with generalized cross-wavelet transform" (Toiviainen & Hartmann, 2021)
