Reinhard Kopiez received a degree in classical guitar from the School of Music in Cologne (1982), and a masters and PhD (1990) in musicology from the Technical University in Berlin. Since 1998 he is professor of music psychology at the Hanover University of Music and Drama, Germany and head of the Hanover Music Lab. His latest journal publications concern psychological research on the relationship between music performance and handedness, historiometric analyses of Clara Schumann’s repertoire, groove in popular music, and the evaluation of audio-visual music performance. He is co-editor of the German standard handbook on music psychology (Handbuch Musikpsychologie, 2017, Hogrefe). From 2009-2012 he was president of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) and since 2013 he is the editor of the journal Musicae Scientiae.