Michael Thaut PhD

Michael H. Thaut received his Master's and PhD in music from Michigan State University. He is also a graduate of the Mozarteum Music Conservatory in Salzburg/Austria. At Colorado State University he is a professor of Music and a professor of Neuroscience and past Chair of of the Dept. of Music, Theater and Dance. He has also directed the Center for Biomedical Research in Music for ten years. He was a visiting professor of Music at the Mozarteum in 1985, and a visiting professor of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor in 1993. He has also been a visiting scientist in Neurology at Duesseldorf University Medical School since 1995, and was recently appointed as visiting professor at Heidelberg University of Applied Sciences in the Dept. of Music Therapy.

Dr. Thauts internationally recognized research focuses on brain function in music, especially time information processing in the brain related to rhythmicity and biomedical applications of music to neurologic rehabilitation of cognitive and motor function. He received the National Research Award in 1993, and the National Service Award in 2001 from the American Music Therapy Association. He has over 120 scientific publications and has authored and co-authored three books. His works have appeared in German, Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Spanish language. Popular TV media and numerous print media have featured his research nationally and internationally.