Director
Anthony Brandt
Professor of Composition and Theory, Shepherd School of Music
Artistic Director, Musiqa
Rice Researchers
Faculty
Karl Blench
Composer
Lecturer in Music, Shepherd School of Music
Melia Bonomo
Lecturer, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Bryan Denny
Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences
Director, Translational Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab
Christopher P. Fagundes
Professor, Psychological Sciences
Director, Institute for Health Resilience & Innovation
Simon Fischer-Baum
Associate Professor, Psychological Science
Director, T.L.L. Temple Neuroplasticity Laboratory
(On leave for the 2025-2026 academic year at the National Science Foundation)
Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Distinguished Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting, Shepherd School of Music
Vicente Ordóñez-Román
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Member, Ken Kennedy Institute
Staff
Amara Anyanwu
Psychology Research Coordinator, Rice University
Students
Catherine He
PhD student, Vislang Lab, Computer Science Department
Kayla Clark, M.A.
PhD Candidate, Neuroscience of Memory, Mood, and Aging Lab
Department of Psychological Sciences, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Research Interest Group
Wenshi Chen
Undergraduate in Musicology and Science & Technology Studies
Shepherd School of Music
Anagha Deepak
Undergraduate Neuroscience Major
Ananya Nair
Undergraduate in Biosciences
Cross-Institutional Collaborators
Anna Abraham
E. Paul Torrance Professor & Director of the Torrance Center for Creativity, The University of Georgia
Nanki Chugh ('25)
Creative Education Director, Musiqa
Neuroarts consultant and researcher
Jose-Luis Contreras-Vidal
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor
Director, NSF IUCRC BRAIN Center, The University of Houston
Aime Aguilar-Herrera
Yoshua Lima-Carmona
Annel Pacheco-Ramirez
Made Ayu Desiari, S.Sn., M.Sn.
Dosen/Assistant Professor of Dance, Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) Bali
Atiya Dhala, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in Clinical Surgery
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York and Houston Methodist Academic Institute
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Texas A&M School of Medicine
Director of Educational and Translational Research in Critical Care
Houston Methodist Hospital
Elkhonon Goldberg
Director, Luria Neuroscience Institute
Benjamin Hayden, M.D.
Professor of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine
Director, Hayden Lab
Badie Khaleghian
Composer and multimedia artist
Assistant Professor of Digital Music, Bowdoin College
Cokorda Bagus Jaya Lesmana
Professor, Community and Cultural Psychiatry, Udayana University
J. Todd Frazier
Senior Director and Gerald H. Dubin, M.D. Presidential Distinguished Centennial Chair in the Arts of Medicine, Center for Performing Arts Medicine, Houston Methodist
Andy Noble
Associate Chair/Professor of Dance, Sam Houston State University
Co-Artistic Director, NobleMotion Dance
Dionne Noble
Professor of Dance, Sam Houston State University
Co-Artistic Director, NobleMotion Dance
Andrew Nordin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston
Director, Nordin Lab
Dr. Mei Rui
Concert pianist
Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
Founding Director, Music-in-Medicine at MD Anderson
I Gde Made Indra Sadguna, S.Sn., M.Sn., Ph.D.
Dosen/Assistant Professor of Karawitan
Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) Bali
Lydia Wu-Chung, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
Students
Ana Chavez
Neuroscience PhD Student
Hayden Lab, Baylor College of Medicine
Elizabeth Mickiewicz
Research Technician, Baylor College of Medicine