We welcome Ariadne Loutrari who joins the team as a PDRA on the CAASD project, investigating auditory processing in congenital amusia. She received her PhD in Linguistics from Birkbeck, University of London and a postdoctoral research grant from the Wellcome Trust. She previously worked as a teaching fellow at Aston University and as a lecturer in psycholinguistics at The University of Manchester. Her research interests include the parallel study of language and music, speech and language disorders and congenital amusia.