Summary
Tuomas Eerola is a Professor of Music Cognition based in the UK with over a decade of experience researching music perception and the emotional impact of music. He leads empirical projects and teaches Psychology of Music at Durham University, bringing systematic, data-driven methods to questions traditionally explored in musicology. With a PhD from the University of Jyväskylä and a background that spans professorship and senior research roles, he combines acoustic analysis, modeling, and experimental design to map how sound evokes feeling. Colleagues know him for translating nuanced theoretical insights into reproducible empirical work—applying computational approaches to enrich humanistic inquiry.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Tampereen Lyseon Lukio
PhD, Musicology, PhD, Musicology at University of Jyväskylä
English, Finnish, Swedish