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Minna Huotilainen is professor of educational sciences at University of Helsinki. She works as the director of the Changing Education Master's programme and PI at the Centre of Excellence in research on Music, Mind, Body and Brain. She is known for her neuroscientific discoveries in the field of music and learning, identifying fetal musical learning and demonstrating neural benefits of musical play school and instrument lessons. Her passion is to deliver research results to the general public in an understandable form. 

Tuomas Eerola is a Professor in Music Cognition at Durham University. His research combines empirical music research, music psychology, and music and science. The topics of interest are music and emotions, and how we perceive music, especially the central elements such as melody, timbre, rhythm, metre, and dissonance. He approaches these topics with empirical experiments and often uses computational models to articulate the theories. He champions open science in his work. 

Professor Eerola has led several major research projects, Sweet Sorrow funded by the Academy of Finland (2013-2017). He has been the co-investigator in Interpersonal Entrainment in Music Performance, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, 2016-18), led by Martin Clayton and the other co-investigators being Antonio Camurri (Genoa) and Peter Keller (Sydney). He has also been involved in two funded research projects (EnTimeMent, funded by EU FET programme led by Antonio Camurri, and Social cohesion and resilience through intercultural music engagement, which is funded by Australian Research Council and led by Jane Davidson and Bill Thompson). 

 At Music Department at Durham University, he has served as the Director of Research (2013-2015, 2021-) and the Head of Department (2018-2020). He has also been the President of Finnish Musicological Society and serves on several editorial boards including the journals Psychology of Music and Music Perception.