TOMMI HIMBERG CURRICULUM VITAE 28.10.

2010

Name: Himberg, Tommi

Email: tommi.himberg@gmail.com
Skype: tihimber
WWW: mindsync.wordpress.com; www.facebook.com/himberg;
www.twitter.com/tijh

E D U C A T I O N

PhD, St Edmund’s College & Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, ongoing.

Master of Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, December 2002

• major: musicology (excellent), Master’s thesis “Perception of Melodic Complexity – A Cross-Cultural In-
vestigation” (excellent)
• minors: psychology (excellent), English philology (satisfactory)
• other studies: Culture and Technology, compulsory language skills in Swedish, English and French
• student in International Summer School of Pythagoras Graduate School, 2001 (Jyväskylä)

Baccalaureate, Kuopio High School of Music 1994 (matriculation with 6 laudatur grades)

School of music, Kuopio Conservatory of Music 1994 (studies in piano, music theory, music history etc.)

Communications officer (Reserve rank: Ensign), Finnish Navy / Finnish Army 1994-1995

W O R K E X P E R I E N C E

1.8.2007 - current
University teacher, Department of Music, University of Jyväskylä.
Tasks: Research in the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research (a research unit com-
posed of the Music Cognition Group (JyU) and the Brain & Music Team (University of Helsinki)). Teaching in
musicology, music education, music therapy and Music, Mind & Technology at the Department of Music. I’m
also a member of the Teaching Development Group and contribute to the running of ESCOM, the European
Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music and its journal Musicae Scientiae, especially its online version.

5.1.2003 – current
PhD Candidate, Centre for Music & Science, Faculty of Music & St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge
Tasks: My PhD project is supervised by Dr Ian Cross. Thesis working title: Interaction in Musical Time: Cognitive
Foundations of Entrainment. The thesis is at the last stages of writing up after a two-year hiatus due to teaching
and research duties in Jyväskylä, and will be completed by the end of 2010.

1.2.2001 – 31.12.2002
Planner, Rector’s Office, University of Jyväskylä
Tasks: Working in the staff of the Rector of the University, professor Aino Sallinen. My responsibilities included
following and reporting on European HE policy-making, e.g. international master’s programmes, European
Higher Education Area; internationalisation of the university; student affairs and providing background informa-
tion on demand for the numerous speaking and lecturing engagements of the Rector.
1.1.2000-31.12.2000
President, The National Union of Finnish Students, SYL.
Tasks: As president (full-time), I was the political leader representing 135 000 Finnish university students at
national and international levels. My main responsibilities were lobbying, national and international networking
and overseeing the governance of the organisation (17 staff, annual turnover 800 000 €/year). In 2000, the main
issues were university funding and the process of establishing European Higher Education Area, where SYL co-
ordinated the campaign in ESIB, the European Student Union.

December 1998 – December 1999

Chairperson of Board, The Student Union of the University of Jyväskylä
Tasks: As the Chairperson of the board (full-time), I was the political leader representing the 12 000 students of
the University at local and national levels in media and in university administration and lobbying the local and
national government. The board, led by the chair, coordinated and planned student services and campaigns and
oversaw the finances of the whole organisation, including the student village that provides housing for almost
2000 students, and a cluster of companies providing various services.

Other work experience

I have done a number of different part-time jobs while studying, for instance, as a custodian at the Music Faculty
in Cambridge. In Cambridge I also worked part-time in two university spin-off companies; as a Language Tester
In Transversal Corp. providing expertise in Finnish for building natural language processing systems, and in Taptu
Ltd. building databases of human search results to benchmark the Taptu’s mobile search engine.

L A N G U A G E A N D I T - S K I L L S

Finnish: excellent spoken and written skills (formal qualifications in the MPhil degree); strong experience in de-
bate, negotiations and meetings.
English: excellent spoken and written (all scientific output in English, minor studies in English philology, IELTS
language test score 8.5/9 (24.5.2002).
Swedish: good spoken and written skills.
French: satisfactory spoken and written skills.

IT-skills: statistical analysis and programming/scripting in MATLAB, R, SPSS, Excel, Praat, HTML; Office software
(iWorks, MS Office, Open Office); Mac OS X and MS XP platforms; music software (Logic Pro, Audacity,
ProTools, Digital Performer, Sibelius; MIDI and audio digital studio equipment; picture and movie editing (Gimp,
iMovie); digital native in social networks, online forums etc.

G R A N T S A N D A W A R D S

Helsingin Sanomat Centennial Foundation, Research scholarship for Ph.D. Studies. Awarded March 2003 and
November 2005, duration 2+1 years, value 45 000 €.

Arts and Humanities Research Council, Fees-only award for Ph.D. Studies in the University of Cambridge.
Awarded August 2002, duration 3 years, value app. 20 000 €.

Charter Studentship, St. Edmund’s College, Award for outstanding academic performance. Awarded September
2003, duration 3 years, value £750 per annum.
 P O S I T I O N S O F T R U S T

Senate of the University of Jyväskylä 1998-2002

Board of the University Library (JyU) 1999-2002;
Faculty Council, Faculty of Humanities 1997-1999;
Evaluation team, Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council 2001-2002 (Evaluation of Finnish Universities’
Master’s Programmes).
Also representations at various European student conventions, other memberships and elected positions in the
various boards, councils and working groups at the University of Jyväskylä and Jyväskylä Student Union, and at St
Edmund’s College student body, for example, Captain of Boats of the St Edmund’s College Boat Club.

P U B L I C A T I O N S

Theses
Himberg, T. (in preparation). Interaction in Musical Time – Cognitive Foundations of Entrainment. PhD Thesis,
University of Cambridge.
Himberg, T. (2002). Perception of Melodic Complexity – A Cross-cultural Investigation. Master’s thesis, Univer-
sity of Jyväskylä.

Peer reviewed articles

Bispham, J., Cross, I., Himberg, T. & Swaine, J. (submitted): Evolutionary origins of entrainment. Cortex.
Eerola, T., Himberg, T., Toiviainen, P. and Louhivuori, J. (2006): Perceived Complexity of Western and African
Folk Melodies by Western and African Listeners. Psychology of Music, 34(3), 337-371.
Himberg, T. & Thompson, M. (submitted). Learning and synchronising dance movements in South African songs -
Cross-cultural motion-capture study. Dance Research Electronic – Special issue: Dance and Neuroscience.
London, J., Himberg, T. & Cross, I. (2009). The Effect of Structural and Performance Factors in the Perception of
Anacruses. Music Perception, 27(2), 103-120.

Conference proceedings
Himberg, T., Thompson, M. (2010). Dyadic entrainment and interaction in African dance. In S. M. Demorest, S. J.
Morrison, & P. S. Campbell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference for Music Perception and
Cognition. Seattle, US: University of Washington.
Himberg, T. & Thompson, M. (2009). Group Synchronization of Coordinated Movements in a Cross-cultural
Choir Workshop. In J. Louhivuori, T. Eerola, S. Saarikallio, T. Himberg, & P.-S. Eerola (Eds.), Proceedings of the
7th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, (ESCOM). Jyväskylä, Fin-
land: University of Jyväskylä.
Himberg, T. (2008). Dyadic Entrainment and Interaction in African Dance. In K. Miyazaki, Y. Hiraga, M. Adachi,
Y. Nakajima & M. Tsuzaki, (Eds.). Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception and
Cognition, (ICMPC). Sapporo, Japan.
Louhivuori, J., Eerola, T., Saarikallio, S., Himberg, T. & Eerola, P.-S. (eds.) (2009). Proceedings of the 7th Triennial
Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, (ESCOM). Jyväskylä: University of Jy-
väskylä.

Conference & symposium posters and spoken presentations

Himberg, T. (2010). Interaction in African Dance – A Cross-cultural study. In New Perspectives on Joint Action
and Task Sharing – workshop. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Leipzig, Germany.
Invited lecture.
Himberg, T., Thompson, M. (2010). Dyadic entrainment and interaction in African dance. In 11th International
Conference for Music Perception and Cognition. Seattle, US. Poster.
Himberg, T. & Thompson, M. (2009). Group synchronization of coordinated movements in a cross-cultural choir
workshop. In 7th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, (ESCOM).
Jyväskylä, Finland. Spoken presentation.
Himberg, T. (2009). Analysing Group Entrainment. In Entrainment Network. Milton Keynes, UK. Spoken presen-
tation.
Himberg, T. (2008). Co-operative Tapping: Musical and Social Interaction. In Symposium “Rhythmic Coordina-
tion in Dyads”. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Leipzig, Germany. Invited lecture.
Himberg, T. (2008). Personality Types and Musical Interaction. In IMHSD Conference: Dance, Timing and Musi-
cal Gesture. Edinburgh, UK. Poster.
Himberg, T. (2008). Measuring Co-operability in Tapping Dyads. In 10th international conference for music per-
ception and cognition, (ICMPC). Sapporo, Japan. Poster.
Himberg, T., Thompson, M. (2010). Dyadic entrainment and interaction in African dance. In 11th International
Conference for Music Perception and Cognition. Seattle, US. Poster.
Himberg, T. (2006). Co-operative tapping and collective time-keeping – differences of timing accuracy in duet
performance with human or computer partner. In ICMPC9 (International Conference for Music Perception and
Cognition), Bologna, Italy (24.8.2006). Spoken presentation.
Himberg, T. (2006). Cooperative tapping with human and computer partners – investigating shared intentions
and interaction in musical time. In Rhythm, Time & Temporal Organisation, Edinburgh, Scotland (4.6.2006).
Spoken presentation.
Himberg, T. (2005). Cognitive Foundations of Musical Interaction – Exploring Cooperative Tapping. In 10th Inter-
national Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop (RPPW10), Bilzen, Belgium (5.6.2005). Spoken presenta-
tion.
Himberg, T. (2004). Exploring the Cognitive Foundations of Musical Interaction. In Nordic Musicology Confer-
ence (NMK2004), Helsinki, Finland (13.8.2004). Spoken presentation.
Himberg, T. & Cross, I. (2004). Interaction in Musical Time. In ICMPC8 (International Conference for Music Per-
ception and Cognition), Evanston, IL (6.8.2004). Spoken presentation.
Himberg, T. (2004). The Cognitive Foundations of Musical Interaction. In SEMPRE Conference “Musical Col-
laboration” Milton Keynes, UK (24.4.2004). Spoken presentation.

Teaching materials
Lähdesmäki, T., Hurme, P., Koskimaa, R., Mikkola, L., Himberg, T. (2010). Menetelmäpolkuja humanisteille.
University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Humanities. <http://www.jyu.fi/mehu> (Mapping Research Methods; English
version <https://webapps.jyu.fi/koppa/avoimet/hum/menetelmapolkuja/en>

Reports and other publications

Himberg, T. (ed.)(2007). Centre for Music & Science, Activity Report 2005-2006.
Raivola, R., Himberg, T., Lappalainen, A., Mustonen, K., and Varmola, T. (2002). Monta tietä maisteriksi – ylio-
pistojen maisteriohjelmien arviointi, Korkeakoulujen arviointineuvoston julkaisuja 3:2002, Helsinki, EDITA. (Ev-
aluation report of the Finnish Universities’ Master’s Programmes, FINHEEC publications 3:2002)
Himberg, T. (2002). Opettajavaihto kansainvälistymisen moottorina – vaihdosta eväitä myös pedagogiseen kehit-
tämiseen. Peda-forum 2, 24-25. (Teacher Mobility as the Engine of Internationalisation – Exchange provides fuel
for pedagogical development). Non-refereed article.
Himberg, T., Tarvainen, M-L, and Autio, K-P. (2000). Hauskinta hallinnossa. Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä
Student Union. (Guidebook for student representatives in the university administration).