Julian Michael Johnson FBA (born 1 July 1963) is a musicologist, specialising in music history and the aesthetics of modern music. Since 2013, he has been Regius Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. After completing his undergraduate degree at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Johnson studied for his master's degree at the University of Sussex, which also awarded him his doctorate in 1994. He then lectured at Sussex until 2001, when he became a reader in the University of Oxford's Faculty of Music, and a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. In 2007, he joined Royal Holloway as Professor of Music.[1][2][3]