Alf Gabrielsson is professor emeritus in psychology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He earned his PhD with a thesis on musical rhythm in 1973 and at the same time also conducted research at the Department of Technical Audiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. His research areas include musical rhythm, music performance, music experience, music acoustics and audiology. His present research focuses on strong experiences with music and on expressive performance in music. He has published numerous papers in scientific journals and books and is consulting editor for Psychology of Music, Music Perception, Psychomusicology, and Musicae Scientiae. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and served as President of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) 1997-2000 and has been awarded the Honorary Life Membership of ESCOM.