Nicola Dibben is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Sheffield, UK, co-editor of the journal Empirical Musicology Review, and former co-ordinating editor of Popular Music. Her research addresses music, mind, and culture with a focus on the science and psychology of music and on popular music studies. She has published over 40 journal articles and book chapters, and is the author of Bjoerk (2009) and co-authored Music and Mind in Everyday Life (2010). She collaborated with Bjoerk on the artist's multi-media app album, Biophilia (2011).