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About the Author
André Fiebig
andre.fiebig@tu-berlin.de
Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Technical Acoustics
Department of Engineering Acoustics Technische Universität Berlin Einsteinufer 25, 10587 Berlin, Germany
André Fiebig earned his PhD in psychoacoustics at the Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, Germany. For the past 13 years, he has worked at HEAD acoustics GmbH, where he developed test procedures for sound quality applications. Since 2019, he has been a visiting professor at the TU Berlin, teaching psychoacoustics, noise effects, and soundscapes. He chairs the technical committee on noise in the German Acoustical Society. His research focus is cognitive stimulus integration of streams of auditory sensations in the context of psychoacoustics. He is also interested in the application of the soundscape approach for environmental noise assessment.
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