Obadiah Baker was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his project titled “Synsoma Composition: Embodied Pathways in Music” at Bar-Ilan University. His project integrates music composition with affective neuroscience and embodied cognition, exploring how breath, pulse, and multisensory lived experience can be translated into musical form. Through an autoethnographic and practice-based research framework, he will develop a new string quartet while collaborating with researchers in psychology to examine how embodied musical processes inform emotional regulation and resilience. The work contributes to artistic research, music cognition, and interdisciplinary dialogue between composition and neuroscience.

Dr. Baker received a Doctor of Education (EdD) in Educational Leadership and Management from Drexel University, an MBA in Project Management from the University of Arkansas Grantham, and a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from the New England Conservatory of Music. He is currently completing a Master of Music in Composition at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. His recent publication includes: Baker, O. I., & Rasmussen, H. (2025). Navigating empathy, compassion, and conflict resolution.