Felicity Baker

Professor Felicity Baker (music therapy) is Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and Director, International Research Partnerships for the Creative Arts and Music Therapy Research Unit and former Australia Research Council Future Fellow (2011-2015). Felicity is passionate about leading interdisciplinary research with real world translational opportunity and impact, collaborating with local and international research and industry partners. Her research impact was recognised when she was awarded the Marles Medal 2023. Felicity is co-founder of Attuned Music, a University of Melbourne MedTech spin-out company that will commercialise MATCH enabling the benefits music-based health technology to reach those who would benefit from it.

Felicity has attracted more than $18 million in competitive research funding including Lead Investigator on a Google.org AI innovation grant, 3 National Health and Medical Research Council grants, (NHMRC), an Australia Research Council Discovery Grant, an Aged Care Research Industry Innovation (ARIIA) grant, an Australian Economic Accelerator grant, and a Medical Research Future Fund. She was International Lead Investigator of the HOMESIDE RCT involving research teams in Australia, UK, Norway, Poland and Germany funded by EU funder Joint Programme for Degenerative Diseases, and Lead Investigator on the project Music Attuned Technology Care eHealth (MATCH) involving interdisciplinary teams from health, engineering, technology and health economics. The team are developing an adaptive music technology that combines a music therapy led caregiver training program of intentional music use, with an automation of early detection, classification and regulation of symptoms that utilises biomarkers, wearable sensors and AI.