Rate My Professor Grace Leslie

Grace Leslie is an Associate Professor at the ATLAS Institute and the College of Music at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she directs the Brain Music Lab. She is a flutist, electronic musician, and scientist who develops brain-music interfaces and physiological sensor systems to reveal aspects of internal cognitive and affective states. Leslie joined the University of Colorado Boulder faculty in 2022. Prior to this appointment, she served as an Assistant Professor of Music Technology at Georgia Tech, where she also directed the Brain Music Lab.

Leslie completed her undergraduate and master’s degrees in music, science, and technology at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. She earned her PhD in Music and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego, where she studied expressive movements and brain dynamics supporting music engagement at the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience. As part of her doctoral work, she spent a year at Ircam in Paris. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Affective Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab and a Neukom Fellowship at Dartmouth College, collaborating with the Epilepsy and Cognition Lab at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Her research focuses on music perception and cognition as well as affective computing. Leslie has performed her brain-body music in academic and popular venues across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Singapore, South Korea, China, and Japan, and has released three records of this work. She maintains an active practice integrating conventional musical expression with brain-computer interfaces.

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