Phillip (Phil) Cartwright is an American citizen raised in the Chicago area and has lived in France for 30 years. A Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with support from the MIT Energy Research Lab, he has forty years of academic and business experience. Today, he is a Full Professor, Visiting Researcher, Royal College of Music, London. Phil’s teaching and research interests include quantitative methods, performance science, music composition, and choreomusicology. He is the Founder of HorizonVU Sound and Movement. He studies music at the Berklee College of Music, classical dance at the Stanlowa Institute, and cello. He is a member of the American Economic Association, American Psychological Association, American Musicological Society, the Dance Studies Association, the Society for Dance Research, and the International Dance Council CID at UNESCO, Paris.