Clemens Wöllner

Clemens Wöllner is a Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Music Freiburg (since 2022) and previously held the same position at the University of Hamburg (2013–2022). He also served as a Visiting Researcher at UC San Diego (2018–2019), Acting Professor at the University of Bremen (2010–2013), Research Fellow at the Royal Northern College of Music (2008–2010), and Research Associate at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (2007–2008).

• Education: Doctorate (2007) and Master of Arts in Psychology of Music (2003) from the University of Sheffield.
• Scholarships from the Evangelisches Studienwerk, German National Academic Foundation, and Royal College of Music London.

His research focuses on music psychology, timing and time perception, musical expressiveness, multimodal perception, movement analysis, and the sociocultural foundations of musical conducting. He led the 5.5-year EU-funded project 'Slow Motion' (ERC Consolidator Grant 725319), which investigated transformations of musical time in perception and performance.

Selected recent publications explore topics such as interoceptive systems in musical emotions, social situation evaluations through music, and sensorimotor synchronization in time perception. His work bridges musicology, cognitive science, and movement analysis.

Honours and Awards

• European Research Council Consolidator Grant (2016)
• Associate Junior Fellowship (2011)
• ESCOM Young Researcher Award (2006)

He currently chairs the Doctoral Committee and Ethics Committee at the University of Music Freiburg, and previously served on the State Graduate Funding Committee. He is President of the German Society for Music Psychology (since 2022) and a board member of ESCOM, GfM, and SEMPRE.