About your lecturers

Camila Pfeiffer (BA-MT, Lic. MT, NMT-fellow, PhD candidate) got her Bachelor's degree at ArtEZ, the Netherlands, and at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She obtained her Master's degree at Berklee College of Music (USA), and is currently a PhD candidate in Psychology and applied Neurosciences at Universidad Maimonides, Argentina. She is a music therapist since 2004, founded the music therapy department at FLENI neurorehabilitation Institute in Buenos Aires, and international network Neuromusica, the Iberamerican Network for Music Therapy and Neurosciences, where she teaches about music, music therapy and neurosciences.

Her area of expertise is music therapy with adults with neurologic disorders. She is specifically interested in the relationship between cognitive functions and emotional states, as well as the role of music in assessment procedures.  At the Master's programme she is lecturer for Music Based Assessments, Cognitive Neurosciences of Music and is head of the Music Therapy master's course at ArtEZ.

Artur C. Jaschke received his Bachelor's degree in music (double bass and drums) from Dartington College of Arts (UK) and the University of Otago (New Zealand). During this period, he developed a strong interest in musical cognition and the neurology of music; he obtained his Master's degree at the University of Amsterdam, in Musicology and Music Cognition and his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in Clinical Neuropsychology with a specialization in clinical Neuromusicology.

At ArtEZ he is a professor of music-based therapies and interventions, where he specializes in the interrelationship between music, technology, and brain maturation in clinical and non-clinical populations. He is a visiting researcher in Cognitive Music Neuroscience at the Department of Neonatal Intensive Care at the University Medical Centre Groningen and a researcher in clinical Neuromusicology at the Free University of Amsterdam in the Department of Clinical Neuropsychology.  He is also a lecturer at the Pre Master and Master Music Therapy program and a research coach.