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2010
E D U C A T I O N
Baccalaureate, Kuopio High School of Music 1994 (matriculation with 6 laudatur grades)
School of music, Kuopio Conservatory of Music 1994 (studies in piano, music theory, music history etc.)
Communications officer (Reserve rank: Ensign), Finnish Navy / Finnish Army 1994-1995
W O R K E X P E R I E N C E
1.8.2007 - current
University teacher, Department of Music, University of Jyväskylä.
Tasks: Research in the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research (a research unit com-
posed of the Music Cognition Group (JyU) and the Brain & Music Team (University of Helsinki)). Teaching in
musicology, music education, music therapy and Music, Mind & Technology at the Department of Music. I’m
also a member of the Teaching Development Group and contribute to the running of ESCOM, the European
Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music and its journal Musicae Scientiae, especially its online version.
5.1.2003 – current
PhD Candidate, Centre for Music & Science, Faculty of Music & St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge
Tasks: My PhD project is supervised by Dr Ian Cross. Thesis working title: Interaction in Musical Time: Cognitive
Foundations of Entrainment. The thesis is at the last stages of writing up after a two-year hiatus due to teaching
and research duties in Jyväskylä, and will be completed by the end of 2010.
1.2.2001 – 31.12.2002
Planner, Rector’s Office, University of Jyväskylä
Tasks: Working in the staff of the Rector of the University, professor Aino Sallinen. My responsibilities included
following and reporting on European HE policy-making, e.g. international master’s programmes, European
Higher Education Area; internationalisation of the university; student affairs and providing background informa-
tion on demand for the numerous speaking and lecturing engagements of the Rector.
1.1.2000-31.12.2000
President, The National Union of Finnish Students, SYL.
Tasks: As president (full-time), I was the political leader representing 135 000 Finnish university students at
national and international levels. My main responsibilities were lobbying, national and international networking
and overseeing the governance of the organisation (17 staff, annual turnover 800 000 €/year). In 2000, the main
issues were university funding and the process of establishing European Higher Education Area, where SYL co-
ordinated the campaign in ESIB, the European Student Union.
I have done a number of different part-time jobs while studying, for instance, as a custodian at the Music Faculty
in Cambridge. In Cambridge I also worked part-time in two university spin-off companies; as a Language Tester
In Transversal Corp. providing expertise in Finnish for building natural language processing systems, and in Taptu
Ltd. building databases of human search results to benchmark the Taptu’s mobile search engine.
L A N G U A G E A N D I T - S K I L L S
Finnish: excellent spoken and written skills (formal qualifications in the MPhil degree); strong experience in de-
bate, negotiations and meetings.
English: excellent spoken and written (all scientific output in English, minor studies in English philology, IELTS
language test score 8.5/9 (24.5.2002).
Swedish: good spoken and written skills.
French: satisfactory spoken and written skills.
IT-skills: statistical analysis and programming/scripting in MATLAB, R, SPSS, Excel, Praat, HTML; Office software
(iWorks, MS Office, Open Office); Mac OS X and MS XP platforms; music software (Logic Pro, Audacity,
ProTools, Digital Performer, Sibelius; MIDI and audio digital studio equipment; picture and movie editing (Gimp,
iMovie); digital native in social networks, online forums etc.
G R A N T S A N D A W A R D S
Helsingin Sanomat Centennial Foundation, Research scholarship for Ph.D. Studies. Awarded March 2003 and
November 2005, duration 2+1 years, value 45 000 €.
Arts and Humanities Research Council, Fees-only award for Ph.D. Studies in the University of Cambridge.
Awarded August 2002, duration 3 years, value app. 20 000 €.
Charter Studentship, St. Edmund’s College, Award for outstanding academic performance. Awarded September
2003, duration 3 years, value £750 per annum.
P O S I T I O N S O F T R U S T
P U B L I C A T I O N S
Theses
Himberg, T. (in preparation). Interaction in Musical Time – Cognitive Foundations of Entrainment. PhD Thesis,
University of Cambridge.
Himberg, T. (2002). Perception of Melodic Complexity – A Cross-cultural Investigation. Master’s thesis, Univer-
sity of Jyväskylä.
Conference proceedings
Himberg, T., Thompson, M. (2010). Dyadic entrainment and interaction in African dance. In S. M. Demorest, S. J.
Morrison, & P. S. Campbell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference for Music Perception and
Cognition. Seattle, US: University of Washington.
Himberg, T. & Thompson, M. (2009). Group Synchronization of Coordinated Movements in a Cross-cultural
Choir Workshop. In J. Louhivuori, T. Eerola, S. Saarikallio, T. Himberg, & P.-S. Eerola (Eds.), Proceedings of the
7th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, (ESCOM). Jyväskylä, Fin-
land: University of Jyväskylä.
Himberg, T. (2008). Dyadic Entrainment and Interaction in African Dance. In K. Miyazaki, Y. Hiraga, M. Adachi,
Y. Nakajima & M. Tsuzaki, (Eds.). Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception and
Cognition, (ICMPC). Sapporo, Japan.
Louhivuori, J., Eerola, T., Saarikallio, S., Himberg, T. & Eerola, P.-S. (eds.) (2009). Proceedings of the 7th Triennial
Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, (ESCOM). Jyväskylä: University of Jy-
väskylä.
Teaching materials
Lähdesmäki, T., Hurme, P., Koskimaa, R., Mikkola, L., Himberg, T. (2010). Menetelmäpolkuja humanisteille.
University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Humanities. <http://www.jyu.fi/mehu> (Mapping Research Methods; English
version <https://webapps.jyu.fi/koppa/avoimet/hum/menetelmapolkuja/en>