Roger Dean (musician) - Academia

Academia

Dean is also a research academic, previously mainly in biochemistry, and since 2007 solely in musicology and music cognition. He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge (BA, 1970) and gained his PhD there in biochemistry (1973). He has higher doctorates in biology (DSc 1984) and in music (DLitt 2002) from Brunel University, UK. He is a former Fellow of the Institute of Biology (UK; resigned 2006), a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD), and is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities (FAHA). He received an Australian Centenary Medal in 2003.

In biochemistry, he worked at University College London, at the Clinical Research Centre of the Medical Research Council UK, and at Brunel, where he became a full professor in 1984. He then migrated to Australia to become the foundation director of the autonomous Heart Research Institute, Sydney (1988–2002), and took Australian citizenship (1992). From 2002-2007 he was the Vice–Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra, Australia, and in 2007 he returned to full-time research as Professor of Sonic Communication at the MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney, studying music cognition and computational analysis and modelling of music.

Dean has more than 280 substantive publications in biochemistry, and around 100 in music research. From 2005-2008 he was a member of the board of the Australian Music Centre (and the Chair from 2007-8). He has also been a member of several other boards including the editorial boards of the Biochemical Journal, Clinical Science, Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Redox Report, Critical Studies in Improvisation, inflect and soundsRite.

Another version of his biography de:Roger T. Dean is on the German language part of Wikipedia.