NIELS CHR. HANSEN was until recently an Assistant Professor and AIAS-COFUND II Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, working on a research project entitled "Why humans make music: uncovering missing links in the behavioural and neurohormonal underpinnings of musical evolution". He is a member of the Danish Young Academy, General Secretary of ESCOM, Editor for Empirical Musicology Review, and co-founded the global MUSICOVID research network.