Jingnan Xu 

Room: 2.06 VR Delivery Sir William Henry Bragg Building

Email: psjx@leeds.ac.uk

I started my PhD in 2023 under the supervision of Dr Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos and Professor Faisal Mushtaq (School of Psychology). Before my PhD, I completed a masters degree in Computer Science at the University of Bath. Following my masters, I interned at the Real and Virtual Environments Augmentation Lab (REVEAL), where I developed an interest in virtual reality and its application to human performance. This experience inspired me to study how technology can be applied to understand and help improve human performance.

My research focuses on understanding the relationship between motor behaviour, and neural processes in skilled piano playing using a rich, multi-modal manner. My current work aims to develop a multimodal platform integrating kinematic and neural activities to study expert-level piano playing. The platform will be tested for validity across different skill levels, providing a comprehensive view of how different factors contribute to high-level performance.