Niels Chr. Hansen (PhD, MSc, MMus) is an Associate Professor of Music Theory, History, and Analysis at The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus, Denmark, and Postdoctoral Fellow at Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body, & Brain, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is Vice-President of European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Editor-in-Chief of Empirical Musicology Review, and co-founder of the global MUSICOVID research network.