CV - David R. Quiroga-Martinez

09/2024 - Present - Postdoctoral Researcher - Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen
01/2022 - 09/2024 - Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley
10/2016 - 12/2021 - PhD student & Postdoc - Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University

12/2019 - PhD in Clinical Medicine (Neuroscience) - Aarhus University, Denmark
09/2015 - MA Psychology of Music (Distinction) - University of Sheffield, UK
12/2012 - BA Music (Best student of the class) - EAFIT University, Medellin, Colombia

04/2019 - 07/2019 - Visiting researcher - Theoretical Neurobiology Group, University College London, UK
09/2018 - 12/2018 - Visiting researcher - Dynamic Cognition Group, INSERM, Lyon, France

2023 - Reintegration fellowship, Carlsberg Foundation - The representation of musical thoughts in neurons of the human brain.
University of Copenhagen; 24 months; 1,329,302 Kr. (US $200,000)
2020 - International postdoc fellowship, Independent Research Fund Denmark - The neuronal basis of musical imagination.
UC Berkeley; 24 months; 1,310,000 Kr. ($210,000)
2020 - Internationalization fellowship (declined), Carlsberg Foundation - The neuronal basis of musical imagination.
UC Berkeley; 12 months; 410,000 Kr. ($67,000)
2016 - PhD fellowship - The neural responses to auditory surprise in complex and realistic musical contexts.
Aarhus University; 36 months; 1,260,000 Kr. ($205,000)
2016 - Research supplement - The neural responses to auditory surprise in complex and realistic musical contexts.
Graduate school of health, Aarhus University; 36 months; 550,000 Kr. ($90,000)

2023 - Young Researcher Award - International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition 17, Japan
2013 - Acknowledgement to the highest scores in Colombia in the examination for the assessment of higher education “Saber Pro”- Ministry of National Education, Colombia
2012 - Mention of Honour and Best Graduating Student - EAFIT University, Colombia

2023 - Symposium on Cognitive Auditory Neuroscience - The Bayesian musical brain: From surprise and uncertainty to emotion and imagination.
2022 - Sainsbury Wellcome Centre - Statistical learning in music listening: From surprise and uncertainty to emotion and imagination.
2021 - RITMO – University of Oslo. - The Neuronal Processing of Musical Sound Sequences.

2016 - 2024 - 5 PhD students, 2 Master’s student, 6 Bachelor students
2023 - Guest Lecturer Music Cognition Course at UC Berkeley.
2022 - Online lecturer for ESCOP conference – Analysis of neural data
2021 - Online Mentor at Neuromatch Academy – Computational neuroscience
2021 - Lecturer for the summer school in music neuroscience (Aarhus University).
2018 - Lecturer for the Music in the Brain Course (Aarhus University).
2018 - Guest Lecturer for the Bachelor in Arts program (Antioquia University).
2016 - Guest Lecturer for the Master’s Degree in Music (EAFIT University).
2015 - Coordinator of a Diploma Degree in Music (EAFIT University).

PhD thesis committee - 2023 - Carlota Pages, Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona)
Peer review - Sci. Adv., Nat. Comm., PNAS, Comm. Bio., Plos One, eLife, NeuroImage, Eur. J. Neurosci., Cerebral Cortex, J. Cog. Neurosci., Front. Neurosci., Cog. Neurody., Psychophysiology, Neuroscience.
Leadership
- 2023-2024 - Board member of the Berkeley Postdoc Association (BPA).
- 2024 - Mentor at the Research Experiences Program in Neuroscience for underserved bachelor students, UC Berkeley.
Public engagement
- 2024 - Speaker at Caminos de la Ciencia (Spanish): “Usando el poder de la música para explorar el cerebro”, Oakland, USA
- 2024 - Speaker at Lawrence Hall of Science: “Music and the Brain”, Berkeley, USA
- 2024 - Speaker at Lawrence Berkeley Lab: “Music and the Brain”, Berkeley, USA