Dr rerum medicinalium (PhD in Medicine); Diplom Pädagoge (Master in Education)

Professor of Music, Health and the Brain


Room: Helmore 257

Email: jorg.fachner@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2416
International: +44 1223 363 271 ext 2416


Professor Jörg Fachner's research activity


Jörg Fachner is Professor of Music, Health and the Brain and holds a PhD in Medicine. He was trained as an educationalist and social scientist, utilizing music therapy in special education, targeting deviant adolescents and addiction.

As a researcher at the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany he was involved in sensory, posture and movement research at the Department of Physiology. Later as Senior Research Fellow at the same University, he established a research service and music therapy online journal at the Chair for Qualitative Research in Medicine. Funded by FP6 of the EU and AOF as a senior researcher at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research at University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, he focused on music therapy interventions and brain responses on depression and stroke treatment.

His research interests, publications and scientific memberships focus on 1) music therapy and its applications in healing cultures, modern medicine and special education; 2) music and the reward system in the brain; 3) popular music culture and performance.

He has presented symposia, papers and keynotes on several international conferences, published articles and chapters in peer-reviewed journals and books, edited two books on music therapy, consciousness states and addiction treatment at JKP and has served as scientific advisor / board / committee member for several conferences and reviewer for scholar journals in the field of the music sciences. Since 2008 he serves as the Chair for Publications for the World Federation of Music Therapy.

He has performed and recorded music widely as a guitarist, singer and Saz (Baglama) player.

Areas of supervision:

• Music, therapy and the brain
• Music and consciousness states
• State dependent cognition and recall
• Music therapy and addiction treatment

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