MARCS Alumni News

July 25, 2007

Dr Peter Keller, the first externally-funded researcher at MARCS in 1998 (when it was still called MACL), has recently been awarded the prestigious position of Independent Junior Research Group Leader with the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig. Such positions are given to young ascendant researchers to set up new labs within the German Max Planck system to foster cutting edge research. Peter will call his new group Music Cognition, Action, and Human Interaction, or Music Cognition & Action for short. The focus of this group shows the prominence that both music cognition, and perception and action have achieved in recent times. Peter will start his new group in October, 2007, and we wish him well with it.

Dr Karen Mattock, in a postdoc position at McGill since completing PhD at MARCS in 2004, has now (July, 2007) taken up a new position. Karen has been appointed as a Research Council UK Academic Fellow (Sensory and Perceptual Development) in the Centre for Research in Human Development and the Sensory Neuroscience Unit of the Department of Psychology at Lancaster University. This is a 5-year position leading, upon review, to a permanent academic appointment. The position is tailored for young talented researchers - it is research based for the first 5 years, with the aim of providing a smooth transition into an academic career. Well done Karen, and we wish you well.