Reach higher, reach beyond.
Mentoring programme for pre- and postdocs at the mdw
(women, inter* and non-binary persons)

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The Mentors

Dr Joke Bradt, PhD, MT-BC is the Professor and Programme Director of the PhD in Creative Arts Therapies programme at Drexel University (USA) and a board-certified music therapist.  Her federally funded research is focused on the use of music therapy for chronic pain and symptom management. She is currently conducting two clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH): a multi-site trial on music therapy for chronic pain management in people with advanced cancer and a study examining the impact of music therapy on opioid tapering in cancer survivors with chronic pain. As a research team member of Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network, she has investigated the impact of music therapy on clinical outcomes in service members with posttraumatic stress, traumatic brain injury and other psychological health concerns. She is known internationally for her expertise in mixed methods research and systematic review methodology. She is the lead author of several Cochrane Systematic Reviews on music interventions with medical patients. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy.
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Joke Bradt is Monika Smetana's mentor.

 

Dr Christa Brüstle, M.A. is Professor of Musicology, Women’s and Gender Studies at Institut 14 Musikästhetik, and since 2012, the head of the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG), Austria. She studied Musicology, German Philology and Linguistics in Freiburg in Breisgau and Frankfurt am Main and received her doctorate in 1996 with a thesis on the history of the public reception of Anton Bruckner. From 1999 to 2005 and in 2008, she was a research associate in the special research area “Cultures of the Performative” at the Free University of Berlin, where she habilitated in 2007 with the thesis Concert Scenes: Movement – Performance – Media. Music between performative expansion and medial integration 1950 – 2000. She was a lecturer at “Hanns Eisler” Music University, at the Technical University of Berlin and at the University of Vienna. From 2008 to 2011, she was visiting professor at Berlin University of the Arts and in 2014, visiting professor of Musicology at the University of Heidelberg.
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Christa Brüstle is Maria Fuchs' mentor.

 

Dr Bernd Clausen, born in Wilhelmshaven, studied musicology and school music in Göttingen and Hanover and gained his doctorate in 2003 with the thesis “The foreign as a barrier”. In the same year, he became assistant professor for music education at the University of Bielefeld, in which post he was able to conduct extensive research in Japan on the role of “traditional Japanese music” in Japanese schools. The results became the basis for his habilitation thesis “The Rabbit in the Moon”. In 2008 Clausen accepted a professorship for music education / music didactics at the University of Music in Würzburg.
In addition to wide-ranging (including international) activities in comparative and historical music pedagogical research, his music-didactical focus is on culturally sensitive music education (transcultural music education). Clausen is also the author and co-editor of textbooks and other teaching materials.
Another focus is quality assurance, teaching and curriculum development, as well as accreditation and assessment in national and European contexts.
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Bernd Clausen is Katharina Pecher-Havers' mentor.

 

Dr Christine Fischer has, since 2019, been Senior Research Associate in Music at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. In 2004, she received her doctorate at the University of Bern, with a thesis on Maria Antonia Walpurgis von Bayern. From 2007 to 2013, she was an SNF Professor at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (interdisciplinary research project on the performance practice of Italian opera at German-speaking courts of the 17th and 18th century). Her research interests acquired a supradisciplinary orientation through her studies in Music Education (PH Ludwigsburg University of Education), Musicology, Art History and Italian Philology (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich), Musicology and Music Ethnology (University of California, Los Angeles) and Gender Studies (University of Basel). 
Academic teaching experience at, inter alia, the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz (KUG), Universities of Vienna and Salzburg, University of Music Freiburg, University of the Arts Bern as well the University of Bern, Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg, the University and the Music Academy of Basel, and Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich. Her research projects, conferences and publications have been funded by, among other bodies, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), Ernst Göhner Foundation, Maja Sacher Foundation and Mariann Steegmann Foundation. (Photo: P&M Photo Media Luzern)

Christine Fischer is Angelika Silberbauer's mentor.

 

Dr Birgit Lodes studied music for the teaching profession (Piano and Violoncello) as well as Musicology, Organisation Psychology and General Pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Munich and  Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich. She was a special student at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA (1988/89) and a visiting fellow at Harvard University, USA (1992/93).  In 1995, she received her doctorate from the University of Munich. From 1994 to 2004, Lodes was a research associate, assistant and senior assistant at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Munich, and from 1995 to 1998, also a lecturer at the Munich University of Music. In 2002 she completed her habilitation at the University of Munich. C3 Professorship in Musicology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 2002 and visiting professorship at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna (2002/03). Since February 2004, she has been a Professor of Musicology there, with a special emphasis on older historical musicology. In 2008, she was elected a corresponding member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 2013 she has been a member of the Academia Europaea.
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Birgit Lodes is Carola Bebermeier's mentor.

 

Jyoti Mistry is Professor of Film at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg in Sweden. She works with film both as a research form and as a mode of artistic practice. Recent works: Cause of death (2020), When I grow up I want to be a black man (2017) and Impunity (2014). Her work has featured at e.g., International Film Festivals Berlinale, Toronto and Rotterdam, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume Paris, Kunsthalle Zürich and Vienna and the Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam.
Recent publications: Places to Play: practice, research, pedagogy (2017), special issues of The Journal of African Cinema: “Film as Research Tool: Practice and Pedagogy” (2018) and the International Journal of Film and Media Arts: “Mapping Artistic Research in Film” (2020).  She has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand (SA), New York University; University of Vienna; Nafti in Accra and Alle Arts School at University of Addis Ababa. DAAD Researcher at Babelsberg Konrad Wolf Film University; residencies at the Västerbottens Museum in Sweden (2020) and the Netherlands Film Academy (2016/17). She is the principal research investigator on a BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) cross-cultural project (2017-20) and, currently, the Editor-in-Chief of PARSE (Platform of Artistic Research, SE) and is also on the editorial board of L'Internationale Online.
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Jyoti Mistry is Barbara Wolfram's mentor.

 

Alexander Rehding is the Fanny Peabody Professor of Music and currently occupies the chair of the Music Department. Rehding's interests have focused on German music and musical thought, particularly in the 18th to the 20th century. His publications include Music and Monumentality: Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth-Century Germany (2009), Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (2003, pb 2008), and numerous articles on such figures as Beethoven, Wagner, Liszt, and Schoenberg. Other interests include music aesthetics, media archaeology, and sound studies. His current book project is tentatively called Notes on Sound: Aesthetics and Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Music. He is the organiser of the 2013/14 Sawyer Seminar, “Hearing Modernity”.
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Alexander Rehding is Elena Minetti's mentor.

 

Susanne Rode-Breymann, since 2010 president of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and since 2017 chairperson of the Conference of Rectors of German Music Universities (Rektorenkonferenz der deutschen Musikhochschulen). She studied early music, musicology, art history and literature in Hamburg and was a researcher at the University of Bayreuth and the University of Bonn. After her habilitation in 1996 she taught in Hannover and was from 1999 to 2004 a professor of historical musicology at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. She was appointed professor of historical musicology at the university in Hannover in 2004, where in 2006 she founded the Research Center Music and Gender (Forschungszentrum Musik und Gender). She publishes in the fields of early music, contemporary music, musical theater (e.g. 2010: Musiktheater eines Kaiserpaars. Wien 1677 bis 1705) and Gender Studies (e.g. 2014: Alma Mahler Werfel. Muse. Gattin. Witwe, C.H. Beck), is the editor of a number of yearbooks and publication series and was the expert editor for music for Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit. (Poto: Nico Herzog) More information.

Susanne Rode-Breymann is Akiko Yamada's mentor.

 

Stefania Serafin, PhD is Professor of Sound in Multimodal Environments at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. She has been an Associate Professor (2006-2012) and Assistant Professor (2003-2006) at Aalborg University Copenhagen. She received a PhD in Computer-Based Music Theory and Acoustics from Stanford University in 2004, and a Master in Acoustics, Computer Science and Signal Processing Applied to Music from IRCAM (Paris) in 1997. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Virginia (2003), and visiting scholar at Stanford University (1999), Cambridge University (2002) and KTH Stockholm (2003). She is the principal investigator for the Nordic SMC network and President of the Sound and Music Computing Association. Her main research interests are sound models for interactive systems and multimodal interfaces, and sonic interaction design.
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Stefania Serafin is Montserrat Pàmies Vilà's mentor.