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Alexander Khalil is a Senior Lecturer in Music at University College Cork (UCC) and Visiting Senior Lecturer of Research at King’s College London’s Social Genetic Developmental Psychiatry Centre. His work bridges ethnomusicology, cognitive science, and neuroscience, focusing on the intersubjective experience of time in music. He holds a PhD in Music from UC San Diego (2009) and has held roles including Executive Director of the Center for World Music (1999-2003) and Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSD’s Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (2010-2014).
His research explores Byzantine chant, Middle Eastern music, and Balinese gamelan, with a focus on cultural cognition and group-level neural dynamics. Major projects include the SoundMind initiative (funded by the Tianqiao Chen Institute) investigating Audio Augmented Reality for dementia, and the Lullaby Exchange, a global crowdsourced lullaby archive. He has secured over €2.5M in grants including Irish Research Council and NSF funding.
Teaching includes undergraduate courses in Middle Eastern music and cognitive ethnomusicology, alongside postgraduate modules in music perception and ethnomusicological theory. He supervises 15+ graduate students and chairs UCC’s Film, Music & Theatre Doctoral School. Awards include the IEEE Brain Initiative First Place Award (2016) and San Diego State University’s Alumnus of the Year (2013).