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AM Lab's Team

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Staff

DR EDUARDO COUTINHO

Director

Eduardo is a Senior Lecturer in Music Psychology. His research interests include music and emotion, music and health, music cognition and music computing/technology. He has a particular focus on developing methods and tools that allow people to benefit the most from music engagement in everyday life contexts.

Students


Ayham Al Ma'Amari

Research assistant

Machine Learning

Aradhya Tripathi

Research assistant

Software Engineering and Machine Learning

Stephen J. Banks

PH.D. Candidate

New methods of synergising pitch and timbre in music composition

Collaborators

Prof. Atif Rahman

Professor of Child Psychiatry and Global Mental Health (University of Liverpool)

Prof. Gregory Lip

Price-Evans Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine (University of Liverpool) and Distinguished Professor (Aalborg University)

Prof. Angelo cangelosi

professor of machine learning and robotics (University of manchester) and Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute london

Dr Alena Shantsila

Lecturer in Cardiovascular Health (University of Liverpool)

Mr Greg Hanford

Music and Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

ALUMNI

Rachael Drury

Ph.D. awarded in April 2025

Algo-rhythmic creativity: the legal and economic challenges of generative AI in the UK music industry.

Dr Mickey Bryan

Ph.D. awarded in September 2024

Composing in Dementia Settings: Developing a Practitioner’s Toolkit

Dr Yiting  Cheah

Ph.D. awarded in February 2024

The Affective and Cognitive Impacts of Music Listening on Prolonged Cognitive Work: Insights From Everyday Life Habits and Ego Depletion 

Dr Rui Guo

Visiting Ph.D. Student (2022-23)

Music AI (Composition)

Xiaoyuan Wang

Undergraduate Student Internee (2021-23)

Sentiment Analysis (Music)

Yixing Lu

Undergraduate Student Internee (2021-23)

Software Development 

Dr Jacopo de Berardinis

Ph.D. awarded in March 2022 (University of Manchester)

Structural complexity in music modelling and generation with deep neural networks 

Dr Maria Momani

Ph.D. awarded in March 2022

A New Eight-Grade Piano Curriculum for Students with an Arab Background: A Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the ABRSM Piano Syllabi 

Dr Tamaya  Van Criekinge

Visiting Ph.D. Student (2019)

Music and Stroke Recovery

Dr Ayesh Alshukri

Postdoctoral Researcher (2017-2019)

Software Development