Indre Viskontas is a professor of Sciences and Humanities at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she is pioneering the application of neuroscience to musical training. She is also an adjunct professor of Psychology at the University of San Francisco. She is the creative director of Pasadena Opera, director of the chamber music group Vocallective, and host of two podcasts: Cadence, on music and the mind, and Inquiring Minds, on where science and society collide. She holds a master of music degree in vocal performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles. She lives in San Francisco.