Henkjan Honing

Who is Henkjan Honing?

Henkjan Honing is a Dutch researcher and musician. He is KNAW-Muller professor in music cognition and heads the Music Cognition Group, part of the Department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Amsterdam Brain and Cognition center, and the University of Amsterdam, and conducts research in music cognition using theoretical, empirical and computational methods. The research is supported by grants from the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek and the European Commission both in the field of music cognition. Henkjan Honing is the Distinguished Lorentz Fellow 2013/14, a prize granted by the Lorentz Center for the Sciences and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.

Henkjan is the older brother of the saxophonist Yuri Honing.