Eva Phan Quoc was born 1974 in Melk (Lower Austria). She lives in Vienna since 1993, is married and mother of four children.

Eva Phan Quoc completed her music therapy training in 2004 at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Since then she has been working in the field of music therapy with children, adolescents and families, either in an institutional context or in private practice.

As part of her longstanding professional political commitment, she was a member of the board of the Austrian Association of Music Therapists (ÖBM) from 2007-2010. From 2010-2017 she was managing director of the office of the Austrian Association of Music Therapists.

In 2017 she started working as a research associate at the Music Therapy Research Centre Vienna, which is part of the Department of Music Therapy at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Her research focus is on music therapy with families, early childhood music therapy and music therapy research methodology and assessments. Her currently running PhD-research project is on attachment-based music therapy with vulnerable families in a parent-infant-setting.

Eva is a lecturer at the Department of Music Therapy at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, focusing at research, music therapy assessment tools and music therapy with families. Between April 2021 and Sept. 2022 she was deputy head of the Department of Music Therapy (coordinator of the Music Therapy Research Centre Vienna). Since 2021 she is a senior scientist at the Music Therapy Research Centre Vienna (WZMF), University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

Additional qualifications: MusikSpielTherapie® (Stumptner/Thompsen, Berlin), APCI certificate (Assessment of Parent-Child Interaction), EBQ certificate (instrument for assessing the quality of relationships); SAFE mentor, curriculum "Bindungorientierte Therapie und Beratung" (Brisch, Munich).