Natalya Phillips is a neuroscientist, musician, and educator whose work explores the intersection of music and the human mind.

Natalya earned an A.A. in music performance from MiraCosta College and a B.S. in Neurobiology from the University of California, San Diego. Natalya conducted research in the Serences Lab using psychophysical methods to investigate perceptual serial dependence (2024-2026), and in the LASR Lab (2026), engineering audio stimuli for music perception experimental studies.

Alongside her scientific work, Natalya is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and recording artist with over two decades of musical experience. Her background in both music and neuroscience informs a multidisciplinary approach to understanding how the brain perceives, processes, and responds to music.