Ana Clemente

Ana Clemente is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Germany) and McGill University (Canada), specializing in cognitive neuropsychology and auditory cognitive neuroscience. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Evolution and Cognition from the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain) and an M.Mus. in Solo Performance from the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf (Germany). Her research focuses on creativity, aesthetic sensitivity, multisensory integration, and the neuroscientific basis of evaluative judgment.

Key academic roles include a Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022–23) and a La Caixa INPhINIT Doctoral Fellowship (2017–21). She has held teaching positions at music conservatories in Spain, including roles as Head of Department and Erasmus Program Coordinator.

Her work spans high-impact journals like Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts and Emotion, with a focus on audiovisual aesthetics, perceptual mediation of liking, and curvature effects in visual perception. She received the Frank X. Barron Award (2022) for her doctoral thesis on aesthetic sensitivity.

Active in interdisciplinary research, Ana has collaborated with institutions like KTH Stockholm and Queen Mary University of London. Her current projects explore hedonic evaluation of multisensory objects and the biocultural evolution of aesthetic preferences.