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Walter G. Mayer
Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he founded the Institute of Communication Acoustics (IKA) which he headed until 2003. Subsequently, he was assigned emeritus professor status.
Dr. Blauert is he author/coauthor of more than 145 papers and mono- graphs, supervisor of 52 successful PhD projects, and has been awarded several patents. His major scientific fields of interest are spatial hearing, binaural technology, aural architecture, perceptual quality, speech technology, virtual environments and telepresence.
He has served as chairman of the board (and cofounder) of the European Acoustics Association, president and vice president of the German Acoustical Society, associate board member of the International Commission for Acoustics, board member (and cofounder) of the European Speech-Communication Association, now ISCA, and board member (and cofounder) of the section on noise and vibration, NALS, of the German Standards Association, DIN.
He has received various scientific medals and awards and was elected fel- low of the Acoustical Society of America, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, IEEE, the
Institute of Acoustics, and the Audio Engineering Society, Further, he is honorary member of the German Audiological Society, DAGA, and the Polish Acoustical Society.
Acoustics team honored by the Royal Society
A team of acousticians was honored at the Royal Society, London, on 3 October at the 2008 Awards ceremony of “The Engineer.” “The Engineer,” a jour- nal founded in 1856, began last year to award a prize in each of five technical cat- egories: Automotive, Energy, Aerospace & Defence, Environmental Technology and Medical & Healthcare.
The judging panel awarded the ‘Medical & Healthcare’ prize to a col- laborative team, consisting of Tim Leighton of the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton, Andrew Coleman and Fiammetta Fedele of Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT), and Andrew Hurrell of Precision Acoustics Ltd. Tim Leighton is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). He currently serves as the Associate Editor for Biomedical Ultrasound/Bioresponse to Vibration
Jens Blauert awarded Gold Medal by the Audio Engineering Society
Jens Blauert was awarded the Gold Medal of the Audio Engineering Society at their 124th Convention held in Amsterdam, Holland in May 2008. The award citation reads: “For outstanding contributions to audio engineering, communication acoustics, electro- acoustics and spatial hearing, sustained over more than 40 years. Following the presentation of the award, Dr. Blauert delivered a 90-minute lecture titled “Concepts in Sound Quality.”
The AES Gold Medal Award (for- merly The John H. Potts Award) is given in recognition of outstanding achieve- ments, sustained over a period of years, in the field of Audio Engineering. Previous recipients include Leo L. Beranek, Cyril M. Harris, Hugh Knowles, Manfred Schroeder, and Floyd K. Harvey and Eberhard Zwicker.
Jens Blauert studied communication engineering at Aachen, where he received a Doctor-of-Engineering degree in 1969. In 1973, he delivered an inaugu- ral dissertation to the Technical University of Berlin (habilitation), and in 1994 he was awarded an honorary degree (Dr. Tech.) by the University of Aalborg (DK). Since 1974 he held a chair in elec- trical engineering and acoustics at the
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Recipients of “The Engineer” Medical & Healthcare Prize (l to r): Andrew Hurrell, Andrew Coleman, Timothy Leighton, and Fiammetta Fedele.