Leonardo Muller-Rodriguez

Leonardo is using neuroscience, physiological, psychometric and saliva measures to understand sleep quality and its improvement using the X-System (brain-modelled) music recommender system for sleep music in the vulnerable population of caregivers of people with dementia.

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Background

Leonardo became a professional composer for video games and films after studying Music Production for Media at Ravensbourne, while pursuing a Neuroscience MSc at King's College London, where he analysed fMRI data of non-clinical individuals watching Forrest Gump.

He worked as a Research Assistant at the pioneering Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research as a Heart Rate Analyst for the RadioMe project and preparing EEG recordings. He did a one-year internship as a Data Science Apprentice in the Psychoinformatics Lab of the world-leading science institute Forshungzentrum Juelich in Germany.

He is currently undertaking his PhD on the topic of 'Improving sleep quality subjective and objective measures with a music intervention caregivers of dementia'. He also takes part on multiple other science projects (which he uploads to his Music Science YouTube channel), including a presentation at the Science Museum Halloween Late on 'Building a Frightened Brain with Horror Films: the sound of fear'.

Research interests

• Music listening and brain entrainment
• Music as medicine
• Heart rate and health

Qualifications

• MSc Neuroimaging in Neuroscience, King's College London
• BA (Hons) Music for Media, Ravensbourne University