Hauke Egermann graduated in Systematic Musicology, Media Studies, and Communication Research (MA 2006, Hanover University for Music and Drama, Germany). Subsequently, he studied Neuroscience (PhD in Music Psychology/Neuroscience 2009, Center for Systems Neurosciences Hanover). He was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (2009-2011, McGill University, Montreal, Canada). From 2011 to 2015 he lectured and researched at the Audio Communication Group (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany). In 2015 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London. In 2016 he was awarded his Habilitation in Musicology at the Technische Universität Berlin. Between 2016 and 2023, he has been first Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor at the Department of Music, University of York, UK. Here, he founded and directed the York Music Psychology Group. Since October 2021, Hauke holds a University Professorship in Systematic Musicology first at the Department of Music and Musicology, Technische Universität Dortmund, and then from November 2023 onwards at the Institute of Musicology of the University of Cologne. 

Hauke’s research interests are: 

• Music and Emotion
• Empirical aesthetics of music
• Cross-cultural music cognition
• Music media and technology
• Audience research

He has contributed to various international research projects (selection):

• Experimental Concert Research (Volkswagen Foundation, total amount granted: €1,500,000, Role: Co-Investigator, 2019-2023)  
• Artist-to-Business-to-Business-to-Consumer Audio Branding System ABCDJ (EU Horizon 2020 ICT 19.a, total amount granted: €3,500,000, Role: Work Package Leader and Co-Investigator, 2016-2018)
• Interaction between Aesthetic Judgement and Emotional Processing of Contemporary Music (University Pump Funding, total amount granted: £54,710, Role: Principle Investigator, 2016-2017) 
• Design, Development and Dissemination of New Musical Instruments 3DMIN (Einstein Foundation Berlin, total amount granted: €700,000, Role: Work Package Leader and Co-Investigator, 2013-2016)