Frank Russo

Frank Russo is a Full Professor of Psychology, NSERC-Sonova Senior Industrial Research Chair in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, and Director of the SMART Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is an Affiliate Scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and he holds status-only appointments in Speech Language Pathology and Music and Health Science at the University of Toronto. He is also the Chief Science Officer for LUCID, an AI-driven software-as-a-service company developing music-based digital therapeutics. He is also the Co-Director of SingWell, an international research network with a mission to understand, inform, and inspire choirs for individuals living with communication challenges. Russo has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and has received over 8M CAD in lifetime funding as a PI. His research investigates the neuro-cognitive, neuro-affective, and socio-biological aspects of music, speech and hearing. He is a Fellow of Massey College, the Canadian Society for Brain Behavior and Cognitive Science, and the Canadian Psychological Association. He presently serves as an Associate Editor at three academic journals: Frontiers in Psychology (Emotion Science), Frontiers in Neuroscience (Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience) and Music Perception.