Giulia Ripani is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She holds graduate degrees in music performance from institutions in Italy and Switzerland, as well as a bachelor’s degree in social psychology from the University of La Sapienza, Rome. After moving to the U.S., she pursued an M.M. and a Ph.D. in music education at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami, where she was awarded the University of Miami Graduate Dissertation Fellowship.

Ripani conducts interdisciplinary and multi-method research on musical identities, with a focus on how individuals use music to express non-musical aspects of their selves. More recently, her research has expanded to explore professional identity development in music and its impact on mental health outcomes. She has been invited to present her research at national and international conferences, and her work has been published in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Psychology of Music, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Music Educators Journal, Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education, and Philosophy of Music Education Review.