Person
Prof. Dr. rer. nat.Michael Vorländer
UniversitätsprofessorChair of Technical Acoustics
Address
Building: Bernhard-Walke-Haus
Room: 113
Kopernikusstr. 5
52074 Aachen
Contact
- WorkPhone
- Phone: +49 241 80 97985
Fax
Fax:
+49 241 80 92214
Email:
post@akustik.rwth-aachen.de
Curriculum Vitae
Michael Vorlaender on orchid, researchgate, google scholar
University education in physics
1978 - 1981 | in Dortmund |
1981 - 1984 | in Aachen |
1984 | Diploma, RWTH Aachen University |
Professional career
1985 - 1989 | Research assistant at the Institute of Technical Acoustics, RWTH Aachen University |
1989 | Promotion (PhD) Dr. rer. nat., Title of Dissertation: "Untersuchungen zur Leistungsfähigkeit des raumakustischen Schallteilchenmodells", "Investigation on the efficiency of the room acoustical ray tracing model" |
1989 - 1991 | Researcher at the Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesanstalt (PTB). Research in the areas audiological measurements, artificial heads and microphone calibration |
1991 - 1996 | Head of the laboratory of building acoustics of PTB: research , development and standardisation in the areas of room and building acoutics, sound emission and absorption measurement and microphone calibration |
1995 | Habilitation (Dr.-Ing. habil., qualification as university lecturer) at Technical University Dresden Title of habilitation thesis: "Maximalfolgen-Reziprozitätskalibrierung von Mikrofonen im Hallraum", "Maximum-length sequence reciprocity calibration of microphones in the reverberation chamber" |
March 1. 1996 | Nomination as professor and head of the Institute of Technical Acoustics of RWTH Aachen University |
Main areas of interest
Auralization, room acoustics, building acoustics, psychoacoustics, acoustic measurements, virtual acoustics
Memberships / further activities
- 2004 until 2007 President of the European Acoustics Association (EAA)
- 2007 until 2010 Vice President of the European Acoustics Association (EAA)
- 2011 until 2013 President of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA)
- 2016 until 2019 President of the German Acoustical Society (DEGA)
- Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
- German Acoustical Society (DEGA)
- German Physical Society (DPG)
- 2007 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of RWTH Aachen University
- 2009 Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of RWTH Aachen University
- 2012 Spokesman of the professors of RWTH Aachen University
- 1998 until 2004 Board Member of the German Acoustical Society (DEGA)
- 1998 until 2003 Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal "Acta Acustica united with Acustica"
- since June 1996 Editorial Board of the international journal "Applied Acoustics"
- 2017 until 2020 Executive Council Member of Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Awards:
- 2005 RWB Stephens Medal of the Institute of Acoustics, UK
- 2006 Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
- 2008 Diploma de Reconhecimento de Actividade, Sociedade Portuguesa de Acústica
- 2009 Caracola de Sociedad Española de Acústica
- 2012 Honorary Membership of the Polish Acoustical Society
- 2014 EAA Award for Promotion of Acoustics in Europe
- 2018 W.C. Sabine Medal of the Acoustical Society of America
- 2021 Medal of Czech Technical University in Prague, First Class
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2021 Rayleigh Medal of the Institute of Acoustics, UK