Raluca Matei is an applied health psychologist specialising in musicians’ health and wellbeing, from a broad, multidisciplinary perspective. She is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) with the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). She completed her PhD, which was fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, at the Royal Northern College of Music, in the UK, in 2019. Raluca has undergraduate degrees in psychology and music, and a Master’s in Health Psychology from University College London. Having been trained as a professional classical violinist, she also studied at the prestigious Menuhin Academy (Switzerland), with Maxim Vengerov and Liviu Prunaru.

Matei specializes in musicians’ health and wellbeing from an interdisciplinary, real-world perspective. Her research thus far encompasses areas such as health education provision in higher music education (i.e. conservatoires); musicians’ physical and mental health; and musicians’ health literacy. She is currently interested in the training of critical thinking as part of the conservatoire curriculum, as well as in questioning current assumptions in Western classical music. Furthermore, she has a strong interest in the design, implementation, and evaluation of complex, real-world health interventions.