About me

I work as an Assistant Professor of Musicology (tenure track) at the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain. I am also actively involved in Take the “N” Train: Dance, Entrainment and Prosocial Behaviour Academy of Finland project (PI: Petri Toiviainen), and in MUSICONNECT, a European Research Council Consolidator Grant for Suvi Saarikallio. I am Associate (Action) Editor of Psychology of Music and maintainer of the MoCap Toolbox, a MATLAB toolbox that contains functions for the analysis and visualization of motion capture data.

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 have then 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 come from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and moved to Finland in 2009. I live in Jyväskylä with my wife Reeta and our three children, Isla, Samuel, and Matilda. I love music, especially rock, pop, baroque and jazz. I enjoy singing, playing piano and guitar, taking pictures, reading, playing with my children, swimming, cycling, and traveling.